Kate Thorp

Kate Thorp is the founder and CEO of Real Girls Network. She launched RGN in 2006 with a successful $6M Series A round from former investors of her prior founding companies including WaldenVC and 3i. In 2007, RGN launched two products: its first of three initial consumer sites for girls and women, called DivineCaroline.com, and the RGM Ad Network. In only 11 months, DivineCaroline.com became the 18th largest women’s community on the web.

Kate is the former President, Digital Worldwide at AKQA. She oversaw all advertising operations across AKQA’s offices in San Francisco, New York, Washington D.C., London and Singapore. She was also responsible for greatly expanding AKQA’s operations with new clients like ESPN, The Gap, MSN, and Coca-Cola’s global account.

Before joining AKQA, Kate was the former Chairman and Chief Marketing Officer of Carat Interactive. Kate came to Carat when her agency Lot21 was acquired in January 2002. She served as president & CEO of Lot21, a digital marketing, media and advertising agency. Her unique background includes experience as television reporter, U.S. congressional aide, writer, media executive, CNET online crusader, co-founder of the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) to starting her own digital communications company Lot21. Recognized by Advertising Age as one of the "Top 25 Women to Watch" and named 2005’s Media All Star by OMMA, Kate has shared in all perspectives: Executive, Advertiser, Publisher and trade organizations responsible for providing standards and accountability.

She and her companies have earned numerous awards including Kate’s induction in to the Hall of Achievement by the American Advertising Federation, Lot21 named as the IAB’s "Agency of the Year", BtoB Magazine’s Top 25 BtoB Agencies, Carat’s receipt of BtoB’s Agency of the Year in 2002 and most recently AKQA has been named Agency of the Year by Creativity Magazine and made the top lists of AdAge, Revolution, OMMMA and others.

Amy Clark

Amy Allen Clark is the Founder & Creator of the Momadvice.com community where she maintains her website, three blogs, and a forum where mothers can discuss the issues that are most important to them. She is a busy mother of two residing in Granger, Indiana and shares tips on parenting, money-saving advice, and solutions for work-at-home moms.

Amy has been featured in the New York Times, Women’s World Magazine, All You Magazine, The Mike & Juliet Show, The Dr. Phil Show, Redbook Magazine, The Early Show, Miami Herald, MSN Money Web sites, and has served as spokesperson for Cascade.

Amy currently is part of the Kenmore Make It Simple Team and is serving in the role of the Home Management Expert. She also actively serves on the Advisory Counsel for Real Girls Media.

Locally, Amy has appeared weekly on her local CBS-affiliate (WSBT) as the, “Frugal Mom” sharing tips for families on ways to have fun and save money. She also writes monthly for the Michiana Family Magazine for their “Frugal Mom” column and shares articles on simple living and managing the household budget.

Barbara Jones

Barbara Jones is known as an influencer and thought leader in the word of mouth marketing and social media industries, especially in the areas focusing on women and moms. She is the Founder/CEO of the leading women’s word of mouth marketing company, One2One Network. Her company specializes in marketing, PR and social media campaigns utilizing her network socially-connected women/Moms to help promote products and services within their social circles both online and offline. One2One Network especially focuses on the areas of blogger PR and viral marketing. Some One2One Network clients include: Schwinn, Epson, MSG Entertainment, Disney Pearl Series, AEG Live, Sony Music, and Warner Bros.

Prior to founding One2One Network, Barbara spent 20 years in marketing, sales and distribution in the music industry creating successful campaigns for a wide variety of artist and soundtrack projects. Her prior positions included SVP Marketing - Columbia Records, SVP Marketing – Warner Bros. Records, SVP Marketing Maverick Recording Company among others.

Barbara has been or will be involved with the following conferences as a panelist, speaker or host: M2Moms ’08 (Marketing to Moms), Startup Princess - Academy ‘08, Chicks Who Click ’09, BlissDom ’09, Mom 2.0 Summit ’09, M2W ’09 (Marketing To Women), Mind of Mom ’09, Toy Con ’09, among others.

Renee Ross

Less than one year ago, Renee launched her personal blog Cutie Booty Cakes as a way to promote her new diaper cake business. Before she had even shipped a cake, she was bitten by the blogging bug and had found a new passion. In just a matter of months, Renee has become an influential voice in the Mom blogosphere.

A self-confessed social media junkie (she has utilized social media for over a decade), Renee leverages the power of sites like Facebook and Twitter to raise awareness of important social and health-related causes. She is a contributing editor for BlogHer and a Race and Ethnicity Channel Editor for BlogNosh online magazine. Her writing has been featured on countless websites including: Mom Bloggers Club, Posh Mama and The Classy Closet. Renee was also one of a select group of bloggers invited to the African-American Walt Disney World Mom Bloggers Weekend and was selected to participate in the EA Sports Active 30 Day Challenge.

Amy Lupold Bair

Amy Lupold Bair is a sometimes freelance writer, a former pro-blogger and an entrepreneurial social media marketer in the DC metro area – not to mention a stay at home mom to two little ones.

Amy has been blogging at her site, Resourceful Mommy, since mid-2008 where she covers a variety of topics including parenting tips, organizational strategies, product reviews and recommendations as well as a popular feature called "Ask Resourceful Mommy." She also writes articles and product reviews for Type-A Mom as the Child Development Editor and for the popular online magazine Blissfully Domestic on their Family Channel. Amy worked as a pro-blogger from the fall of 2008, until spring of 2009, as Chief Blogger for Family Eden’s blog. Around that time Amy invented Twitter parties as a way to market her own blog, which developed into her business, SiteWarming Parties by Resourceful Mommy, where she promotes clients through Twitter SiteWarming parties as well as through product giveaway contests. The success of these events helped land her on the list of The Most Influential and Powerful Women in Social Media – 2008. In early 2009, Amy created the quickly growing word-of-mouth mom marketing and public service campaign network, Momfluence, which currently connects over 500 mom bloggers with custom created brand campaigns and public policy work. Amy has worked on projects for many familiar brands such as Schwinn, Kellogg’s, and Hasbro and on public service campaigns such as Speak Now for Kids and the Ad Council’s LATCH initiative with the NHTSA.

Last winter Amy spoke on the Social Media/Marketing panel at the Blissdom Conference in Nashville. She has also appeared as the featured guest on several Blog Talk Radio shows including Chicks Who Chat and Classy Mommy Live, and has been interviewed by a number of popular websites including Kelly McCausey’s Mom Masterminds marketing network and Profitable Mommy Blogging podcast. You can also catch Amy as a returning guest on Living $MART on WUSA9, the CBS news affiliate to the Washington, DC, market.

Kelby Carr

Kelby Carr is a writer/blogger, SEO diva, foodie, social network maven/creator, travel junkie and former investigative newspaper reporter turned new media mom. She was named one of the 50 Most Influential and Powerful Women in Social Media. She operates a network of social parenting blogs as well as a social bookmarking site just for moms and an investigative blogging site. She also blogs for About.com, a New York Times Co., and Suite101, and she is a Tech and Meta editor for Blog Nosh Magazine. She blogs about social media, Twitter, mommy blogging, and life as a mom 2.0 empire builder at KelbyCarr.com. She's been geeking it out on computers since the early 1980s, building web sites since the early 1990s, and blogging since 2002.

Lindsay Maines

Lindsay Maines is a mom to three, wife to a full-time heavy metal bass player, and a print journalist/blogger. She began blogging to build a book platform, and fell in love with social media along the way. She’s passionate about moms maintaining a sense of self after babies, whether it’s through music or other means.

Her print work’s appeared in The Washington Post and Brain, Child Magazine. She’s spoken at Jeff Pulver’s SocComm and #140Conf on digital moms and their influence, and will be speaking at the Type A Mom Conference in September. She’s also written for MediaPost’s Engage:Mom column, and consults for several major entertainment companies about reaching the mom demographic online.

Lindsay can usually be found teaching at the Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Maryland, chasing one of her three kids away from a firetruck, or chatting on Twitter with the amazing people who make inhabiting this online world so rich.

Website: www.rockandrollmama.com

Rebecca Watson

With seven years of experience analyzing and leveraging trends in the interactive media industry, Rebecca Watson is known as one of the top digital media thought leaders. She is the director of business development at Real Girls Media Network, Inc., where she leads content acquisition, syndication, and partnership development for DivineCaroline, a community for women with more than three million monthly unique visitors. Additionally, she manages the Real Girls Network, an invitation-only network of premium women’s blogs and communities. Rebecca regularly speaks at conferences including CES, Ad-Tech, We Media, BlogWorldExpo, and Digital Hollywood. She’s written over 85 articles for iMediaConnection and is a regular columnist on Vator.tv.

Website: www.Realgirlsmedia.com