2010 YEOY | Meet the Judges

brianwinterBrian Winter, Founder of Pyxl |  Brian is the CMO of Carpathia Hosting and Founder of Pyxl, a strategic digital marketing firm specializing in branding campaigns for established brands and venture-backed startups.   Prior to Pyxl, Brian was Vice President of Global Virtualization Software Sales at Sun Microsystems, a $20 billion Fortune 500 information technology company. ”A well-executed marketing campaign will have a strong positive effect on any start-up, however it’s often hard for young entrepreneurs to budget for marketing, given limited funds,” said Brian Winter. “This competition gives entrepreneurs a unique opportunity to gain recognition for their emerging business through an integrated marketing and PR campaign.”

jasonkintzlerJason Kintzler, Founder & CEO of Pitchengine |  Jason Kintzler is the Founder and CEO of Pitchengine, a new social platform that enables PR to effectively package stories featuring social content to better collaborate with journalists, bloggers and influencers worldwide. He’s a former print and broadcast journalist turned PR pro and now, entrepreneur. He speaks about branding, public relations and social media at corporate events, conferences, trade shows and other venues and he blogs at New Media Cowboy and on the Pitchengine Network, a social community he created to cultivate ideas and help “PR meet social media.”

brianaitkenBrian D. Aitken, Founder & CEO of Alister & Paine Magazine |  Brian D. Aitken is the Founder & CEO of Alister & Paine, a digital magazine for 21st century executives. Prior to launching Alister & Paine, Brian served as the Publisher for MediaPlanet Publishing House where he published Focus Reports for The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and USA Today, and was an Executive Consultant for a Fortune 300 Company. In his 26 years he’s managed to ride bulls with three-time world champion Lyle Sankey, free-solo thousand foot alpine routes, race Formula cars, and launch two successful companies.

jeffmironJeffrey Miron, Director of Undergraduate Studies in Economics at Harvard University |  Jeffrey is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics at Harvard University, a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, and author of “Libertarianism, from A to Z”,  forthcoming from Basic Books (May 2010). “The new products and technologies created by private entrepreneurship are the life-blood of any vibrant economy,” says Miron. “Winners of the Alister & Paine Young Entrepreneur competition will get a terrific boost that might not otherwise have been available to them.  Helping young entrepreneurs now will be a boon to the economy in the future.”