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Kaiser Permanente and Discovery executives to present at 2013 SharpBrains Virtual Summit

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We’re glad to announce two more excel­lent speak­ers at the upcom­ing 2013 Sharp­Brains Vir­tual Sum­mit (Sep­tem­ber 19–20th). Alexan­dra will dis­cuss the future of per­son­al brain health, and Dan why Dis­cov­ery made a siz­able invest­ment in cog­ni­tive train­ing plat­form Lumosity.

Alexandra MorehouseAlexan­dra M. More­house is the Vice Pres­i­dent of Brand Man­age­ment at Kaiser Per­ma­nente. She is respon­si­ble for all aspects of dig­i­tal, social, and tra­di­tional mar­ket­ing of Kaiser Per­ma­nente, one of the nation’s largest not-for-prof­it health plans, serv­ing more than 9 mil­lion mem­bers. Ms. More­house has also served as co-chair of the Har­vard Busi­ness School Glob­al Tech­nol­ogy Con­fer­ence and on the boards of the Har­vard Busi­ness School Com­mu­nity Part­ners, Snap­Fish, Yer­ba Bue­na Cen­ter for the Arts, ODC Dance, and UC Davis.

Dan FoxDan Fox joined the Dis­cov­ery Cor­po­rate Devel­op­ment team in 2008 and has been involved in the company’s glob­al acqui­si­tion and invest­ment efforts in the pay tele­vi­sion, dig­i­tal video and online learn­ing sec­tors.  He has also helped cre­ate two of Discovery’s joint ven­ture cable net­works — Hub with Has­bro and 3Net with Sony and Imax.   Pri­or to join­ing Dis­cov­ery, Dan worked in the M&A group at IAC, and as a media mer­chant banker for Vero­nis Suhler.

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Lumos Labs (developer of lumosity.com) raises $31.5 million

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Lumos Labs Rais­es $31.5 mil­lion (press release): “Lumos­i­ty has raised $31.5 mil­lion in Series D financ­ing led by pub­licly trad­ed Dis­cov­ery Com­mu­ni­ca­tions. Exist­ing investors First­Mark Cap­i­tal, Har­ri­son Met­al, Men­lo Ven­tures and Nor­west Ven­ture Part­ners also con­tributed. Lumos­i­ty, which makes online and mobile learn­ing pro­grams, has received a total of over $70 mil­lion in fund­ing to date…“As Dis­cov­ery focus­es its dig­i­tal strat­e­gy around strength­en­ing its posi­tion as the #1 non­fic­tion media com­pa­ny across all screens, we also see strate­gic growth oppor­tu­ni­ties in select invest­ments in the next gen­er­a­tion knowl­edge space,” said JB Per­rette, Chief Dig­i­tal Offi­cer, Dis­cov­ery Com­mu­ni­ca­tions. “Discovery’s com­mit­ment to ignit­ing people’s curios­i­ty and pas­sion for learn­ing is a nat­ur­al fit with Lumosity’s suc­cess in brain train­ing. We are proud to take the lead­er­ship posi­tion in this round of financ­ing and look for­ward to sup­port­ing Lumosity’s expan­sion around the world.”

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