Speaker Bios - September 16, 2008

Cool Tech Event

Frank Gruber
Founder, TechCocktail and Principal Product Manager
AOL


Frank Gruber is a principal product manager for AOL in the social networking & platforms group. Frank is responsible for the recently launched myAOL suite. Frank's expert analysis on Web 2.0, social media and emerging technologies have been featured in TechCrunch, iMediaConnection and on SOMEWHAT FRANK. Frank also produces a video podcast called SOMEWHAT FRANK TV.


Ed O'Keefe
Multimedia Journalist
Washingtonpost.com


Ed O'Keefe covers politics for washingtonpost.com as a multimedia journalist. He is the creator, producer and host of the daily "Post Politics Podcast" and the weekly "Post Politics Program," both of which air on XM Satellite Radio. He also reports for washingtonpost.com political blogs The Fix, The Trail and Channel '08 and occasionally for The Post newspaper. He frequently shoots and edits video reports from the field and reported from several states over the course of the primary season, often collaborating with Post colleagues on video projects. He was an on-air reporter for washingtonpost.com live video coverage of primary nights and the two political conventions. Ed appears regularly as an on-air analyst on BBC, CNN International, MSNBC and Post-owned TV stations in Florida and Texas. He was previously a producer and fill-in newsreader on Washington Post Radio and washingtonpost.com homepage producer. Ed graduated from American University in 2005 with a degree in political science.


Moderator
Wyatt Andrews
CBS News


Wyatt Andrews has been a CBS News correspondent since 1981. He works primarily for The CBS Evening News and, in addition to covering the Supreme Court, covers political issues and national trends in health care, food safety, biotechnology and the environment.

Previously, he served as a CBS News White House correspondent (1989-91) during the first Bush Administration, during the time of the first Gulf War and summit meetings with the Soviets in Malta and Helsinki. Andrews covered the State Department for CBS News (1988-89), reporting on nuclear arms control, the Afghanistan accords, Middle East negotiations, U.S. relations with Mikhail Gorbachev and NATO.