Speaker: John Pereira, Senior Director, MyCanvas

John oversees the ongoing development of Ancestry.com’s MyCanvas publishing service. He has more than eight years of experience in the e-commerce industry. A former Naval officer, John holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the U.S. Naval Academy and an MBA in business strategy and e-commerce from Carnegie-Mellon University. The second of three boys, John has (mostly) overcome his middle-child complex and is raising three boys of his own with his wife, Julie.

Speaker: Stefanie Condie, Brand Manager, MyCanvas

Stefanie is responsible for MyCanvas product marketing. Before joining Ancestry.com in 2006, she published an online business research magazine for Columbia Business School. She holds a bachelor’s degree in German literature from Brigham Young University and master’s degrees in business and journalism from Columbia University. You can read about Stefanie’s dysfunctional family—and get advice and ideas for publishing your own family stories—on the MyCanvas blog.