Identity Solutions Town Hall

Varun Bhagwan is an executive with 20 years of experience leading numerous R&D projects from inception to delivery. Varun currently serves as Vice President of Product Management & Engineering at Verizon Media, where he is responsible for all Advertising Data Products: Targeting & Identity, Insights & Measurement, and Trust & Verification. Prior to the formation of Verizon Media, Varun held several leadership roles at Yahoo! focused on Data, Insights & Measurement as well as Mail Monetization Insights & Analytics.

Prior to joining Yahoo!, Varun worked in research for 12 years at IBM where his focus areas included text analytics, web-scale systems, information Integration, healthcare, and privacy.

Varun holds his Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, and his MS in Computer Science from University of Florida. Varun has invented or co-invented roughly 50 patents, is a Yahoo! Master Inventor, holds 10 honors & awards including Verizon’s top honor of the Verizon Credo Award, and produced more than 15 publications in top tier conferences and journals. Varun is also a frequent speaker at industry events and represents the company at events such as CES, Cannes Lions etc.

Alex is a product manager on the Privacy Sandbox team at Google. Prior to Google he co-founded Coir, an ads privacy learning platform, led privacy and addressability standards making at IAB Tech Lab, and held product management roles overseeing privacy, ad creative, video ad serving and more at AppNexus/Xandr. Insider named him one of “14 experts from companies like Google and The Washington Post who are determining the future of digital advertising.”

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A seasoned executive with 24+ years of digital media, marketing and operations experience, Angelina Eng has focused her career on supporting agencies and brands to define, build and manage digital media and marketing efforts while enabling teams to operationally work efficiently and effectively with both internal and external partners and platforms. She’s been responsible for the development and management of internal systems and workflow, establishment of deliverable standards, designing ad trafficking and tracking guidelines, implementation of emerging platforms, as well as establishing best practices at companies such as Morgan Stanley, Merkle, Dentsu Aegis and Publicis Modem.

Over the years, She has been involved with multiple organizations and events to help define, establish and advocate some of the industry standards that we see in today’s digital media ecosystem (such as ad verification/brand safety, ad fraud, viewability and programmatic, social, etc)

Angelina has been awarded the AdMonsters 2018 Power List, IAB Data Rockstar 2016 and AdMonsters Digital Media Leadership Award 2016.

Kyle Hollaway is VP and Head of Acxiom’s Global Identity Practice, responsible for the flagship Acxiom Real Identity™ products and services encompassing Identity Hygiene, Resolution, Management, Assurance and Consulting. Kyle has been with Acxiom for more than 17 years and has worked at a number of other marketing technology companies such as Merkle and nGage Labs.

With over seventeen years of experience managing digital advertising campaigns, Orchid Richardson is the Senior Vice President of Digital at Blavity Inc., where she leads the growth of Blavity360º’s Black and multicultural publisher network, increasing revenue for all its members. Her experience as an expert data solution architect and integrator has allowed her to lead initiatives within many prominent media companies, entertainment networks, and publications during her career. Orchid has worked for several other media companies, including BET Networks, Hearst Magazines Digital Media, and 33Across, Inc. At the IAB, Orchid served as the Senior Vice President of IAB’s Programmatic and Data Center (PDC), where she defined the strategic vision and executed the PDC Board of Directors’ agenda. Orchid also established industry-wide standards and business guidelines for the responsible use of data that enabled relevant, personalized, and privacy-compliant consumer experiences. Orchid led industry-wide training on The Data Centric-Organization, providing direction on how to break down a matrix organization through four key areas – people, partnerships, processes, and platforms.

Orchid is actively involved in advertising, having held leadership roles in key industry trade organizations, including Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement and Black MAKERS. Additionally, she is an active member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. She is Vice President of the Metro-Manhattan (NY) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated, and the Westchester Chapter of Jack & Jill of America. Orchid also serves as a board member and fundraising chair of the Ujamaa Community Development Corporation, which has built over $100 million in affordable housing in Westchester County, New York. She is passionate about giving back and helping to unite the community.