Ned Sherman

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Full Name: Ned Sherman
Title: CEO & Publisher
Company: Digital Media Wire, Inc.
Company Website: http://www.dmwmedia.com
City: Los Angeles
State/Province: CA
Country: USA
Personal Blog: http://www.dmwmedia.com/blog/ned-sherman-0
Professional Interests & Affiliations: Digital Media Wire, DMW, Los Angeles, Brown University, Mobile, Music, Games, Film, Television, Legal, University of Texas Law School, UT, Austin, Sports, Policy, DMFW2006, LAGAMES2006, FOTV2006, DMFE2007, Film07, DMC07
Biography: NED SHERMAN Co-Founder, CEO, Publisher & Executive Editor Ned Sherman is a leading authority on the digital media industry. Under his leadership, Digital Media Wire has grown from a small newsletter publisher into a well-respected B-to-B brand that owns and produces the digital media industry's most prestigious conferences and provides daily news, information and community to tens of thousands of executives and professionals at entertainment, media and technology companies throughout the world. As digital media community-builder, Ned has established partnerships with the leading B-to-B media companies and educational institutions, including VNU Business Media, Billboard Magazine, The Hollywood Reporter, Reed Business Information, Multichannel News, Business 2.0, Business Week, CableFax/CableWorld, VIBE/SPIN, MidemNet, NYU's Stern School of Business, USC's Center for Telecom Management and UCLA's Anderson School of Management, and hundreds of the leading digital media companies, including Microsoft, RealNetworks, Motorola, Sony, AOL, Napster, Yahoo! and many more. In 2004, Ned created the Billboard Digital Entertainment Conference & Awards, which was acquired from DMW by VNU in 2005. Ned continues to be active in the Awards, which he co-chairs with Billboard and Hollywood Reporter President and Publisher John Kilcullen. In 2006, Ned was instrumental in securing an investment from the Consumer Electronics Association, who is now a partner on two DMW events: Digital Music Forum East and Future of Television Forum. As Publisher and Executive Editor of DMW Online and the DMW Daily newsletter since 2000, Ned overseas all content for the site and newsletter and is a contributing writer. An expert on legal issues and business models, Ned was Editor-in-Chief of the Digital Media Law Report from 2003 to 2004. Before joining Digital Media Wire, he spent 7+ years as a corporate and entertainment attorney practicing at several of the leading law firms in the world with an international client base across industries including technology, Internet, media and entertainment. As a founding member of the iLaw Group in the Entertainment Department at Loeb & Loeb LLP in Century City, he handled licensing and corporate transactions and financings for media and entertainment clients including Universal Studios and MGM and launched dozens of Internet and new media start-ups. He has counseled company founders from initiation of a business plan to seed, angel, venture capital and later-stage private financings and managed all legal aspects of Internet clients from corporate organization, stockholder relationships, board compositions and dynamics, stock option plans, capital raising and security regulatory matters, Internet law issues, trademark, copyright, content and technology licensing, advertising and privacy issues. From 1997 to 1999, he practiced in the Los Angeles office of Mayer, Brown & Platt where his practice centered on representation of U.S. and foreign banks in complex lending transactions. From 1995 to 1997, he was a foreign lawyer at Nishimura & Partners in Tokyo, Japan, where his practice involved international mergers and acquisitions and the formation of technology and entertainment joint venture companies. He also served as President of the Roppongi Bar Association in Tokyo, the leading association for foreign lawyers working in Japan. In 2000, he was an Adjunct Lecturer of Law at Tulane University Law School where he taught an entertainment law seminar. Ned is a graduate of Brown University (AB, with honors, 1990) and the University of Texas School of Law (JD, 1994) where he was Chief Articles & Notes Editor of the Texas International Law Journal. Ned is a frequent speaker at media and entertainment industry events, including MidemNet (moderator at 2004 and 2005 conferences), Game Investors Conference (2006), Digital Music Forum (host and moderator, 2001-2007), Billboard Digital Entertainment Awards (co-chair and host, 2004-2006) and the O2 Digital Media Awards (judge 2004), and has been quoted in publications including American Lawyer, The Los Angeles Times, The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard and Crain's Mermigas on Media, interviewed on National Public Radio (NPR), NY1 Evening News and nationally syndicated radio shows, Inside Digital Media, WebTalk and Online Tonight with David Lawrence, and recognized in The Wall Street Journal. Ned is active in alumni affairs for Brown University and currently acts as Los Angeles Chair for Brown University's Alumni Interview Program. He has traveled extensively from Europe to Asia to South America to Northern Africa. Ned is married and lives with his wife and son in Hollywood Hills, California.