Donna Bogatin, Founder & CEO, STARTUPALPHA.COM, has been probing the business heart of the Internet for more than eleven years. Donna advises Internet companies on business planning and development and is the founder of her own Web venture, directional media property UrbanSavings.com.

As Adjunct Professor of Information Systems, Donna has instructed at the New York University Stern Graduate School of Business Administration on how companies of all sizes can best use the Web to gain strategic advantage. Prior to becoming an Internet entrepreneur, Donna was an international investment banker and served as Director of M & A for Societe Generale Securities Corp. Donna holds an M.B.A., an M.A. and B.A. from New York University and is fluent in the French language.