Karl Bernard is president of Gamma Entertainment. An 18-year-old techie Bernard dropped out of school, where he'd been studying to be a computer engineer, to pursue his hobby. His teenage hobby turned into a thriving business with Gamma allowing webmasters to promote several paysites, hundreds of standard banners and thousands of free hosted galleries. Gamma operates the FameDollars affiliate program and recently acquired LiveBucks parent company Inoveo Communications. This year Gamma took over EvilAngelCash's operations.

Steven H. Bryson is founder and CEO of Global Electronic Technology Inc. and OrbitalPay LLC. For the past nine years, the firm has been a leading provider of payment processing solutions for multiple vertical markets, including the adult entertainment industry. Bryson also recently launched a new record label, I-55 Productions. Bryson and his family have further expanded their charitable work this year by establishing the international children's charity, The Never Forgotten Foundation.

Suby comes with an academic background in electrical engineering from the University of Washington. He started his career working at Cisco Systems specializing in Network Architecture Design, before moving on to the wireless industry. Today Suby is a co-founder of MiKandi, which offers the first uncensored mobile adult app store.

Ron Cadwell is founder and CEO of CWIE Holding Company, the parent of CCBill.com and Cavecreek Web Hosting, where he has remained committed to providing innovative service solutions to online businesses. Ron Cadwell's vision and dedication has driven these companies to become two of world's most respected IT firms.

Gregory Clayman is president and co-founder of VS Media, leading provider of live adult video chat and affiliate program VideoSecrets.com. Clayman is responsible for creating and overseeing the overall direction and development of the company's core business. A natural entrepreneur, Clayman served as a member of VS Media's original sales team, devising and implementing a distribution network that now services an international client base. A hands-on leader, Clayman theorized the notion that video chat would be the next great communications tool and devised a content distribution network that today provides revenue-sharing opportunities for thousands of webmasters and ecommerce professionals.

Dave is CEO of the two adult brands. Top-tier affiliate program Pimproll will be celebrating its 12th anniversary this summer.

Diane Duke is the executive director of the Free Speech Coalition, the trade association of the adult entertainment industry, where she represents the industry to the media, government officials and the business community, supporting member businesses through value-added benefits while serving as watchdog for the industry through lobbying and litigation.

Mitch Farber is the president of NETbilling Inc., which was founded in 1998. Raised in Florida and educated in Boston, he moved to California in 1990 to pursue a career in engineering. His interest in computer technology and the Internet eventually lead to starting NETbilling. Today, NETbilling is used worldwide by thousands of online merchants, with a complete gateway processing system and call-center facility offering unparalleled control and reliability. NETbilling's online processing solutions include membership-site management, product sales and advanced fraud scrubbing.

Harmik Gharapetian is the vice president of sales and marketing at Epoch and has over 12 years of experience working in the adult industry. He began his career at Epoch as the Director of Customer Service and later moved into the role he currently has today. This has allowed him to have a very well-rounded perspective of his clients' business needs. Gharapetian has extensive knowledge of the issues that are most important to online billing and the many obstacles that our industry faces on a daily basis.

AJ is a 10-year adult industry veteran who has assisted in the growth of many of adult's largest companies. He brings 13 years of professional marketing and web design experience to his role as CEO of the innovative adult paysite content management system (CMS) software provider, Elevated X.

Jason 'J-SiN' Hart is the founder of SiN2.0.com, a social media website focused on the adult industry. As an adult webmaster and affiliate of 8 years, Jason has a professional background in internet marketing and information technology. During his time in the industry, he has spent over half a million dollars buying traffic for successful and profitable advertising campaigns. In addition, for the last two years, he has hosted the SiN2.0 adult webmaster podcast, covering the online adult industry and making money online. Jason has a distinct love for search engine marketing, both organic (SEO) and paid (PPC). He is also a Google-certified advertising professional and a Yahoo! sponsored search ambassador.

Alec Helmy, founder of XBIZ, ASACP and several other highly successful online ventures, entered the adult entertainment industry in 1996. Today, Helmy is the president and publisher of XBIZ, which includes two leading trade publications, XBIZ World and XBIZ Premiere, several business-to-business and business-to-consumer websites, two annual trade shows, the XBIZ Conference and XBIZ Summer Forum, and the annual XBIZ Awards show. One of the pioneers of the online adult industry, Helmy has served as a consistent voice for professionalism and responsible business practices throughout his career.

Allan Henning is founder and CEO of DatingGold, one of the industry's largest online dating and live webcam affiliate programs. Founded in 2003, DatingGold has been a leader and innovator in online entertainment and affiliate marketing technologies. Henning believes in maintaining good relationships within the industry and not focusing on the quick buck.

Charles has been a professional IT consultant since 1976, serving clients such as Chase Manhattan Bank and the University of Texas. In 2001, he turned his attention to search engines and the adult marketplace, founding Wildline! - the world's largest provider of search engine marketing services for adult companies.

Joan Irvine is CEO of the Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection (ASACP) and brings 25 years of experience to her advocating on behalf of ASACP in Washington and Sacramento, and participating in the Virtual Global Taskforce, the Financial Coalition Against Child Pornography, and the Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee.

JJ spent 12 years in the broadcast and entertainment industry before getting all geeky when the Internet came along. Since then, he has designed, built and operated all kinds of Internet applications and services, as well as created innovative IT and IS solutions at startups and Fortune 1000 companies alike.

Michael H. Klein is president of LFP, Inc./Flynt Management Group, LLC, which is the parent company for Hustler, the company founded in 1974 by the legendary Larry Flynt. Encompassed within LFP are various business entities such as the Publications Group, LFP Broadcasting, and the LFP Internet Group, among others.

Jack Kona hails from the mainstream film and television industry where he helped create award winning films, with a stint at Sony Picture Studios. Kona has worked with Clips4Sale.com in various capacities and is currently serving as content manager for the site. He is also a director for Blazing Bucks.

Mark from GTS has been involved in the adult entertainment business since 2001 and has built several successful ad agencies that specialize in buying and reselling TGP, Tube, P2P, blog, banner, text link and mobile traffic.

Gregory A. Piccionelli is regarded as one of the leading adult entertainment attorneys, with a client list that spans across the adult entertainment industry. He has represented clients in almost every type of civil litigation and transactional matter, including patent, copyright, trademark, celebrity rights and domain-name disputes, intellectual property procurement, licensing and enforcement, e-banking and online merchant account matters, spam email litigation, Federal Trade Commission actions, labor disputes and business transactions of all kinds. The recipient of numerous awards from the adult entertainment industry, Piccionelli also has authored numerous articles on a broad range of business and legal topics pertaining to adult entertainment.

Mark Prince is CEO and founder of Canada's 2Much.net, makers of the award-winning LiveCamNetwork video chat and billing platform. His areas of expertise include software, billing and processing.

Jay Quinlan, aka XXXJay, is one of the adult Internet's most visible and audacious personalities, as well as one of its most successful do-it-yourself entrepreneurs. Despite seemingly endless development of his flagship free-site Jays-XXX-Links.com and his work helming the rapidly expanding affiliate program OC Cash, Quinlan still finds the time to party like a rock star - as he has documented via his blog, XXXJay.com.

Brad Mitchell is president and founder of hosting company MojoHost, which received the XBIZ 2009 Web Host of the Year award. Mitchell has been published many times over the years and has been a panelist on more than a dozen occasions, speaking about a variety of issues all over the country.

Veteran industry marketing professional and director Jeff Mullen has been involved in nearly every aspect of the adult industry from public relations to production. One of the founders of the extremely successful parody production company X-Play, Mullen has directed the breakthrough movies "Britney Rears" and the incredibly successful "Not the Bradys XXX," as well as a number of other movies under his director's moniker, Will Ryder.

Michael Osten has been solving increasingly complex and difficult technical problems for 15 years, during which he has developed innovative products for startups, clients and large corporations. Osten possesses a strong sense for technological trends, outstanding vision and a real no-nonsense approach to working with all kinds of people.

Scott Rinaldo is new to the adult industry but not new to launching new products; with more than 15 years in product development and bringing new products to the marketplace, his RealTouch involvement ranges from engineering and manufacturing to marketing and advertising, giving him the most experience with this technology.

James Seibert is National A-1's Director of Business Development. National A-1 owns pay-per-minute site HotMovies.com, as well as other brands.

Shap, who has been in the online adult business for more than 10 years, saw his company's first real success in the TGP sector with Thumbzilla.com. Later, the company entered the paysite market with Twistys.com. The company also operates SexTube.com and GayTube.com.

In 1996, Brian Shuster founded XPics Publishing, which both pioneered and dominated the adult internet throughout the 1990s. He later founded, built and sold two major webhosting companies. Mr. Shuster is the inventor of more than two-dozen issued and pending patents on core internet technologies, and he is currently the CEO of Utherverse - the leading company developing the Virtual World Web.

Bjorn Skarlen is CEO of CommerceGate Ltd, an IPSP in the high-risk Internet market that recently completed strategic partnership deals with DHD Media and SegPay in the U.S. Skarlen has worked in the billing sector since joining Electronic Group, aka NoCreditCard.com, in Barcelona as business development director in 2002, where he also was head of the mobile division and assisted in the ChargeMeLater product in the U.S. From 1997-2002, Skarlen was new media director for Private Media Group. Prior to the online era, he was the owner and manager of several restaurants and discotheques in Sweden.

An active member of the First Amendment Lawyers Association, Gill Sperlein graduated summa cum laude from American University Law School before working with noted 1st Amendment attorney Tom Steel. Sperlein currently represents his own law firm and serves as general counsel for Titan Media, where he focuses on anti-piracy initiatives.

Bobby Taylor, aka 2bet, is the CEO of XRatedSEO and SEOAP.com. Taylor is a ten year veteran both in the adult industry and the SEO world. He was the original founder of 2Bet.com which he sold in 2008 to begin SEOAP.com and to work on other adult sites. XRatedSEO.com was recently launched and will become the main site, though SEOAP.com will remain live.

After wending her way through the world of portfolio trading and T+3 settlements, Liz Wright joined AEBN's team. Her position at the VOD behemoth allows her to spearhead new partnerships and initiatives for the company, using her compelling mix of financial savvy, straight-up business acumen, and innovation.

Tim Valenti is the CEO of NakedSword.com. Following its successful merger with AEBN, he continues to be one of the most well-known and respected leaders in adult, sitting on the Board of the Free Speech Coalition and co-hosting the successful adult industry talk show, "The Tim & Roma Show."

John Van Arnam (AKA Johnny V) is the president of I-Bridge International and has been a business consultant to some of the largest companies in the adult entertainment space. His consulting group has added to its suite of services a predictive analytic software solution that is a turnkey answer to an analytic dilemma the industry has spent more and more focus on. For the past 12 years he has concentrated on merchant accounts, third-party credit card transaction processing, check processing and relationships with the largest banks in adult.

Raffi Vartanian has been an adult entertainment pioneer since 1989, first in audio text, then the Internet. By 2003, Vartanian owned more than 380 paysites. He later launched AdultLounge.com, an affiliate program which he sold as his WorldWideContent.com became one of the world's largest adult content providers.

Under Allison Vivas' leadership, Pink Visual has established a strong reputation within the adult entertainment industry as an innovative, forward-thinking brand that focuses as much on developing excellent technology as it does on creating high-quality adult entertainment. Vivas joined adult website affiliate program TopBucks in 2001 as marketing director and was later named president of Pink Visual in 2006.

Dominic Volpe, GTBill's operations manager has raised funds for private equity firms, hedge Funds and ISOs for merchant processing. He has floor-trading and hand-signal arbitrage experience at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. He is familiar with risk management for ISO's in merchant processing and he likes dogs and long walks at the beach.