August 14 & 15, 2008
San Francisco

Chuck Fishman
Manager, Media and Entertainment
Cisco

Chuck currently examines the digital media industry for Cisco and manages company relationships with media and entertainment partners. For the past 12 years, Chuck has been creating and producing new radio ventures for Clear Channel, Bloomberg, CNET Networks and Dow Jones. At CNET, with Brian Cooley, Chuck helped build CNET Radio, the first all technology news radio network. From 2002 to 2006, Chuck headed up the Wall Street Journal's long form radio programming ventures. He created two shows, "The Wall Street Journal This Morning" and "The Wall Street Journal This Weekend" and in four years time he grew distribution of the programs from only 2 terrestrial radio stations to 220 plus stations; airtimes on XM and Sirius Satellite Radio; and 100,000 monthly podcast downloads without marketing support. As a radio producer, his love of the intersection of entertainment, technology, and business was reflected in his programs.

Chuck Fishman is also an independent musician who toured with George Clinton & The P-Funk All Stars in the mid nineties, and he continues to collaborate with the group. His band fONKSQUISh is currently working on a new collection of songs that feature members of P-Funk, The J.B's., DJ Zeph, and jazz great Byard Lancaster. He utilizes digital media platforms to promote his music.

Chuck has been a member of the digital music networking group Pho since 1999, and he continues to remain engaged and excited by everything that is going on with digital music and media. Chuck participates as a member of the IAB Digital Video Committee, the IAB UGC and Social Networking Committee, and at the Entertainment and Technology Center at USC.

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