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As Senior Consultant with Ramius Corporation, Simon helps clients to design and deploy the company’s online community and social networking solutions. During his six years at Ramius, Simon has helped launch knowledge, customer and partner networks for organizations like the American Marketing Association, Compuware, the IEEE, Juniper Networks, NASA and SAP.

A spokesperson for Ramius and active contributor to the social computing community, Simon is interested in how social technologies can help people connect and communicate to work, learn and innovate.

Simon is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario’s Administrative Commercial Studies Program, specializing in Finance and Economics. He remains active with the university’s Alumni Board of Directors and is a former president of the alumni’s Ottawa branch.

In his spare time, Simon tries to travel more, take better photos, ski tougher runs and hit a tennis ball around more often.

As the Online Community Manager for PCWorld.com and Macworld.com, Kellie Parker is responsible for setting the community-building strategies, managing the relationships with community software vendors, and interacting with the community members on both sites. She also manages all member created content on both sites, including blogs and blog comments, product reviews, and wiki knowledge base. She is responsible for all interactive features of both sites, including polls and user contests. She manages the PC World “Letters to the Editor” inbox and edits the “PCW Forum” section of PC World magazine each month. In addition, she writes a community-focused column on PC World, writes an IDG-internal blog focused on community and social networking, and contributes to the Today @ PC World blog on social networking and user generated content news. 

Prior to joining PC World & Macworld, Kellie was a Senior Producer & Online Community Manager with LiveWorld, Inc for 7 years. At LiveWorld, she built and managed some of the web’s largest branded communities, including HBO, A&E, History Channel, QVC and Discovery Channel.

Kellie holds an MBA in Marketing (with Graduate Honors) from Regis University.

Jenny Ambrozek is Founder of SageNet LLC, a consulting practice helping

businesses create value by understanding and operating their organizations as networks, and putting collaborative tools to work to connect intelligence in, across and beyond their walls.

Her work in online interaction began in the mid 1980s with Edutel, an Australian Caption Center supported educational content service delivered on Prestel standard Videotex. Jenny authored The Edutel Book: A Guide to Videotex in Education. Coming to the United States in the 1980’s, Jenny joined PRODIGY, the pioneering online service where she served as Director, Community Development.

In eight years at PRODIGY, she brought together a wide range of interactive components in content areas ranging from entertainment to technology to parenting, and learned firsthand about the importance of day-to-day operating practices to minimize the cost of supporting customer engagement.

Since 1996 Jenny has helped clients in publishing, learning, and commerce implement successful online network and collaboration efforts. With Joe Cothrel she conducted the //Online Communities in Business 2004// study and contributed to the communities of practice organizational network survey instrument for the //Network Roundtable//, University of Virginia. Her most recent article co-authored with Victoria Axelrod and Kiki Mulliner is “Learning through participation and connecting intelligence: experimenting with a wiki to co-create an article”. Jenny is a co-founder and author of the //21st Century Organization// blog and provides her participatory media expertise to the University of Warwick //Knowledge Innovation Network//.

Community Director at Clarizen (On-demand Project Collaboration solutions), acting as the users’ advocate and liaison between the user community and Clarizen internal members. My main role is to facilitate the tools and content to make sure Clarizen end-users’ voice is heard internally and that the Clarizen Community has easy access to the latest news from Clarizen, including product updates, company blogs and customer success stories.

Prior to Clarizen, worked at an early stage software company called Collanos, initially as the Director of Product Management and later as their Community Director. Over the last 10 years have been focusing on product management activities, representing the customer/user at internet start-ups and large software companies.

Entrepreneur in spirit, always seeking innovative solutions to create a better user experience. Thrive in smaller, team oriented environments and enjoy taking upon myself formidable challenges which I pursue with determination.

MBA and MS-MIS from Boston University and a B.A in Japanese from Hebrew University, Jerusalem.