Meg Fisher, a veteran of the digital media industry, currently serves as Director of Business Development for Beliefnet, Inc., the leading inspiration and faith-based portal. She has released three new products in the last year, including Beliefnet Mobile (BREW and Java applications), Soulmatch (online dating) and an RSS (Rich Site Summary) initiative. She currently is developing two new digital media offerings for Beliefnet—online gaming and digital music.

Prior to her endeavors with Beliefnet, she was the lead business person for Bertelsmann's Digital World Services digital publishing operations—creating business models and architecting operational plans for internal Bertelsmann clients such as Random House, as well as external clients such as Disney Publishing, TAG Aviation, and Houghton Mifflin. Her specialties include digital media distribution (business and technical), digital rights management, product development, business development, and account management.

Ms. Fisher has years of primary communications technologies experience, ranging from work with Reciprocal to WRQ, Inc. to Primedia. She is a noted professional speaker (Seybold, Women in New Media) and published author on digital media strategies (Information Week, BookTech Magazine).

She maintains active consulting engagements to address short- and long-term needs of publishers and technology firms, and has completed projects for companies such as Content Directions and Vertical Publishing.

Throughout her career, her creed has been to leverage new technologies to disseminate digital content to as many readers and consumers as possible through profitable business models.