Keynote Speaker
Ross Mayfield, Socialtext Co-founder, Chairman and President.

Ross Mayfield is co-founder, Chairman and President, and former CEO of Socialtext Incorporated, an enterprise social software company based in Palo Alto, California. He is also a regular blogger and public speaker.

Mayfield received a BA in Political Science from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and completed the Management Development for Entrepreneurs (MDE) program at the Anderson School of Business.

Mayfield has over 10 years of startup executive management experience. He co-founded and served as President of RateXchange, a business-2-business commodity exchange for telecom. He’s served as CEO of a Risk Management startup, VP of Marketing for a Fujitsu spinout and Marketing Director of one of the largest privately held telecom groups in Eastern Europe. Mayfield has also started an Internet Service Provider and a web design company.

Mayfield began his career in the non-profit sector with the U.S.-Baltic Foundation and served as an Advisor to the Office of the President of Estonia.

Opening Remarks
Jeremy Haefner, Provost/Senior Vice President, Academic Affairs

Jeremy Haefner was appointed Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost at RIT in 2008.

Before joining RIT, Dr. Haefner served in a number of administrative roles at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs including concurrent appointments as vice chancellor for research and innovation, dean of the Graduate School, Dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science, director of the Colorado Institute for Technology Transfer and Implementation. He also was chair of the mathematics department, director of the campus-wide Teaching and Learning Center, faculty associate for information technology and faculty associate for teaching and learning, and professor of mathematics at UCCS.

He joined the faculty at the University of Colorado in 1989 after spending three years at the University of Tennessee - Knoxville.