David Cohen joined IAB in April 2020 as President and was named Chief Executive Officer in September 2020. Cohen is a widely respected advertising agency leader who, prior to IAB, served as President, North America for MAGNA, Interpublic Group’s (IPG) centralized media intelligence, investment, and innovation arm. In this role, Cohen was responsible for more than $20 billion in media spend. During his tenure, Cohen structured and executed large global transactions on behalf of IPG and its clients, with such major IAB member companies as Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Spotify, Twitter, and Verizon Media.

Prior to MAGNA, Cohen served as Chief Investment Officer of UM, ensuring that digital innovation, data, and technology acumen flowed throughout the agency to drive performance. From 2001 to 2011, Cohen served in critical, transformational roles at UM during the explosive growth of digital advertising, including Chief Media Officer, Chief Digital Officer, and Executive Vice President, U.S. Director of Digital Communications. In the late 1990’s, Cohen was responsible for launching and building IPG’s digital practice.

Cohen has a long history of working with trade organizations including IAB and 4As, where he served as chairman of the Interactive Marketing Committee from 2009-2013. He has also been instrumental in initiating several vital industry-wide programs, including the Future of Television, facilitated by EY. Cohen is a Queens native, with a bachelor’s degree in communications from Adelphi University. He was recognized by Adweek as a “Media All Star” and was part of the “Adweek 50” in 2012.

In 2016, David was elected to the Board of Directors of Partnership with Children a non-profit whose mission is to strengthen the emotional, social, and cognitive skills of vulnerable children in New York City to help them succeed in school, society, and life.

David enjoys spending time with his wife and two teenage daughters. A self-described gadget-geek and sometimes fitness fanatic – he ran the NYC Marathon in 2014 and 2019 and Boston Marathon in 2016.

David Cohen joined IAB in April 2020 as President and was named Chief Executive Officer in September 2020. Cohen is a widely respected advertising agency leader who, prior to IAB, served as President, North America for MAGNA, Interpublic Group’s (IPG) centralized media intelligence, investment, and innovation arm. In this role, Cohen was responsible for more than $20 billion in media spend. During his tenure, Cohen structured and executed large global transactions on behalf of IPG and its clients, with such major IAB member companies as Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Spotify, Twitter, and Verizon Media.

Prior to MAGNA, Cohen served as Chief Investment Officer of UM, ensuring that digital innovation, data, and technology acumen flowed throughout the agency to drive performance. From 2001 to 2011, Cohen served in critical, transformational roles at UM during the explosive growth of digital advertising, including Chief Media Officer, Chief Digital Officer, and Executive Vice President, U.S. Director of Digital Communications. In the late 1990’s, Cohen was responsible for launching and building IPG’s digital practice.

Cohen has a long history of working with trade organizations including IAB and 4As, where he served as chairman of the Interactive Marketing Committee from 2009-2013. He has also been instrumental in initiating several vital industry-wide programs, including the Future of Television, facilitated by EY. Cohen is a Queens native, with a bachelor’s degree in communications from Adelphi University. He was recognized by Adweek as a “Media All Star” and was part of the “Adweek 50” in 2012.

In 2016, David was elected to the Board of Directors of Partnership with Children a non-profit whose mission is to strengthen the emotional, social, and cognitive skills of vulnerable children in New York City to help them succeed in school, society, and life.

David enjoys spending time with his wife and two teenage daughters. A self-described gadget-geek and sometimes fitness fanatic – he ran the NYC Marathon in 2014 and 2019 and Boston Marathon in 2016.

Anthony Katsur is a media technology veteran with more than twenty-five years of executive leadership and technical experience at innovative technology companies in the digital media industry.

Most recently, Anthony was SVP, Strategy, Operations and Corporate Development at Nexstar Media Group, Inc., the largest local broadcaster in the United States. Anthony was responsible for overseeing strategy, technology platforms and corporate development across Nexstar’s portfolio of digital assets.

Prior to Nexstar, Anthony served as President of Sonobi, where he implemented their product and go to market strategy around people-based marketing. Anthony recruited, and led highly effective teams while driving strategic partnerships with leading media companies, agencies and brands.

Prior to Sonobi, Anthony held global leadership roles at Rubicon Project as EVP of Business Operations and General Manager of Buyer Cloud. He also held global executive roles at MediaMath and Maxifier, where he served as CEO. Earlier in his career, he joined DoubleClick via the acquisition of NetGravity where he lead multiple engineering divisions and also fulfilled several product leadership and general management roles.

Anthony is an active participant at industry conferences, speaking about the latest ends in advertising at the National Association of Broadcasters, AdAge’s Brand Summit, Advertising Week, Broadcasting & Cable, AdMonsters and GABBCON. He has been quoted on industry trends and provided thought leadership in The Wall Street Journal, AdAge, Adweek, AdExchanger, MediaPost, Econsultancy and Digiday, among others.

Michael Lebowitz is Founder and CEO of Big Spaceship, a globally-recognized marketing agency that creates connected experiences, products and services. Since launching the agency in 2000, he has defined the strategy and vision for Big Spaceship, while working closely with the agency’s clients, including BMW, Capital One, Google Play, Google Maps, Ken Burns, Nestle-Purina, Organic Valley, Samsung, West Elm, and YouTube.

At Big Spaceship Michael has assembled “a crack team of digital inventors,” according to Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Companies” list, and has led the company to be named one of Advertising Age and Crain’s New York Business Best Places to Work for multiple years in a row. Big Spaceship’s multidisciplinary team structure and progressive culture have been profiled by Harvard Business School, with the case study now taught at business schools in 40 countries.

Speaking on creativity, innovation and the evolution of business, Michael speaks across the globe and has engaged audiences at top industry events including Cannes Festival of Creativity, SXSW, Click:NY, Forge Conference, Advertising Week, Click:London and ad:tech, as well as at business schools including NYU Stern, Long Island University and SLU’s Institute for Private Business.

He frequently chairs and sits on juries for creative awards and influential industry organizations including the IAB Agency Advisory Board and annual MIXX Awards, The One Club, Society of Digital Agencies and The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, among others. And has led the agency to win countless awards of its own including an Emmy Award nomination for the agency’s work with HBO Voyeur, Cannes Lions, Clios, Webbys, Andys, and One Show Interactive Pencils, as well as numerous IAB MIXX, Webby, Shorty, FWA, Communication Arts, W3 and Pixel Awards, among others. Michael was also named among the 2010 Creativity 50 and the 2008 OMMA Online All-Stars.

Orchid Richardson serves as the newly appointed Vice President and Managing Director, IAB Programmatic+Data Center. She is charged with driving the Center’s mission to define boundaries, reduce friction, and increase value along the data supply chain, for consumers, marketers, and the ecosystem that supports them.

Before joining the IAB Data Center, Orchid was General Manager of Publisher & Media Solutions for 33Across, Inc. where she was responsible for leading the global business strategy & development for both the company’s growth and the growth of their publisher partners. Her successes include leading the development and integration of the 33Across Real Platform with over 250 demand partner, developing a product suite that was the catalyst for the company’s pivot into programmatic and launching the Real Platform in 12 countries located in EMEA, LATAM and North America.

Orchid also served as Head of Digital Operations for Hearst Magazines Digital Media. There, she was responsible for architecting the Hearst Audience Exchange that represented the consolidation of Hearst’s audience data for multiple Hearst corporate units including Magazines, Newspaper, Entertainment, and Broadcast on to one platform for strategic company-wide initiatives.

Before Hearst, Orchid was Senior Director of Advertising Operations & Strategy for BET Networks within the Digital Group. Orchid has also served in management roles at other leading digital companies including Everyday Health, Singer Direct (an Omnicom Media Group Company) and Multimedia Solutions.


Orchid is actively involved in the advertising community, having held leadership roles in key industry trade organizations. Additionally, she is an active member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., 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 an alumna of Spelman College and New York University’s Stern School of Business where she holds a degree in Business Administration & International Business.

A citizen of the world having visited over 30 countries, Orchid is based in New York where she lives with her husband, Eugene Uzamere, Esq. and their children, Owen, Addison, Ivie, Eki, and Nosa.

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Zoe Soon has 10+ years of experience building products in technology-driven businesses with a heavy focus on mobile. Six years ago Zoe flew 21 hours from Sydney to NYC for a 30min coffee meeting which led to her first job in NYC. Since then she’s worked with three major New York based media companies, The New York Times, Condé Nast and Business Insider on projects ranging from location-based apps to paywalls. Zoe began her career as a user researcher and UX design consultant working with three of the top five banks in Australia. She was then hired to establish a user insights practice at Fairfax Media, a leading Australian news and media conglomerate. Here she led the user research for the flagship news apps which won Best Mobile News Product at the 2012 Australian Mobile Awards and went on to become product lead for the news sites. In this role she launched a content paywall and a unified user data system to diversify revenue and enable more targeted marketing.

Prior to joining the IAB Zoe was General Manager of apps and email at Business Insider where she was charged with defining the go-to market strategy for these platforms. In this role Zoe launched Insider Inc’s first OTT apps across Apple, Amazon Fire and Roku offering advertisers cross-platform video digital distribution and access to an audience that generates over 2 billion views each month.

Zoe has a Masters in Organizational Psychology and lives in New York. She enjoys burning pancakes, Cuban salsa dancing and talking to strangers in line.

John Halley is President of Paramount Advertising, overseeing the company’s domestic multiplatform sales efforts across its leading portfolio of broadcast, cable, digital and streaming assets spanning CBS, BET, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, Paramount+ and Pluto TV, among others. Previously, Halley served as Chief Operating Officer of Advertising Revenue for Paramount, where he oversaw commercial and business operations for the advertising team as well as Paramount’s advertising product suite and go-to-market strategy across its digital, social, and advanced advertising offerings.

An advocate for innovation and progress across the industry, Halley is the Chairman of OpenAP, an advanced activation platform for the convergent video marketplace enabling new currencies, and also serves on the Board of Directors of Blockgraph, the IAB and the VAB.

Halley serves as Chairman of the New York Chapter of the March of Dimes, and is on the Board of Directors of Literacy Inc., a New York-based childhood literacy organization. He holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an Economics degree from Santa Clara University.

Pooja Midha is President of true[X], the most effective engagement advertising platform for on-demand, interactive media, leading the company’s daily operations and long-term strategy. As President, her mission is to grow true[X]’s roster of advertiser and premium publisher partnerships; expand its industry-leading ad products to create value for consumers, advertisers, and media companies; and further true[X]’s active role as an advocate for high-quality, measurable advertising across platforms.

Pooja most recently spent more than five years as senior vice president of digital ad sales and operations for the ABC Television Network, where she oversaw sales, strategy, and revenue operations for all of ABC’s digital properties — the ABC app, abc.com, abcnews.com, GMA on Yahoo, ABC on Hulu, Oscars digital, all ABC dynamically ad-served set top box video on demand, and all social and new media platforms. Pooja previously had worked for ten years at Viacom Media Networks, including serving as senior vice president of digital ad sales for the Music and Entertainment Group.

Pooja currently serves as vice chair of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Video Board, co-chair of the IAB Long Form Video Committee, and is a member of the IAB CRO Council. Pooja also serves as a member of the Upstream Seller Forum Advisory Board. She holds a B.A. from Lehigh University and an MBA from Columbia Business School. She has also completed the National Association of Multi-Ethnicity in Communications (NAMIC) Executive Leadership Development Program from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management.

Pooja currently resides in New York City with her husband, Allan Beaufour.

Jeanie Carstensen is the Senior Vice President, Finance and Operations of Finance and Operations. She joined the IAB in October 2015 with 20+ years experience in the media and entertainment industries. Most recently she was with Comcast/NBCUniversal as a strategic finance and administration leader supporting the Cable Ad Sales Division. Prior to that she held finance leadership roles at Viacom/MTV Networks in New York and MTV Europe in London, England.

Jeanie holds a BA in Finance from Iona College, is an avid traveler, and volunteers with Monday Night Hospitality serving restaurant style meals to those in need.

Carryl Pierre-Drews is EVP, Chief Marketing Officer at the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) where she is responsible for providing executive leadership and management of the IAB marketing and communications organization and activities to forward the IAB’s position as a digital, marketing, and media industry thought leader and agenda-setter. Carryl has stewardship of the IAB Brand inclusive of Events, Marketing, PR, Digital, Social, Mobile, Video, and Audio channels with the goal of elevating IAB’s profile with media and tech CEOs, CMOs, and the marketing and advertising industry at large.

Previously, Carryl held the title of Vice President of Marketing at Fullscreen, a next-gen social marketing agency, where she built and led the agency’s brand marketing, PR, digital/social channels, influencer engagements, and global industry activations featuring marketers from American Eagle, AT&T, HP, Marriott, Mars, Mattel, Visa and more. Carryl was instrumental in catalyzing key strategic decisions that drove business growth, elevated visibility, and increased shareholder value positioning Fullscreen for the AT&T acquisition in 2018 and eventual WarnerMedia integration in 2019. Prior to Fullscreen, Carryl was Senior Vice President of Strategic Marketing at USA Network, a division of NBCUniversal, where she led the integrated marketing, communications strategy, and client experiences teams.

Carryl serves as Chair of the Marketing & Communications Committee of Pet Partners Board of Directors, where she helps devise strategies to further communicate and expand the vital role of therapy animals in our lives. As a therapy animal team with her dog Mika, Carryl has seen firsthand the effect therapy animals have on overall health and well-being. Carryl is also passionate about creating a culture of inclusion and diversity in the advertising, marketing, and media industry and has been an active member of She Runs It, an organization invested in women’s achievement, for 19 years, with six spent on the Board (2012-2018). She was honored twice by CableFax Magazine as one of the most influential minorities in cable — in 2013 “The Leaders” and in 2012 “The Influentials.” In 2019 Carryl was nominated and became a founding member of Chief, a private network focused on connecting and supporting women leaders.

As GM’s Global Chief Media Officer, Shenan is responsible for building a leading-edge global media team that accelerates GM’s media approach into the future.

Reed joined GM from L’Oréal where she was Senior Vice President and Head of Media and was responsible for elevating the quality of consumer connections for the L’Oréal USA brands. She has over 20 years’ experience in the digital media, advertising, analytics, and entrepreneurial space and is a highly sought-after thought leader, regularly presenting at major advertising and digital media industry conferences. Her insights and opinions have been cited in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, AdAge, MediaPost, Huffington Post, AdWeek and Women’s Wear Daily. Her deep understanding of advertising, media, and analytics has mandated her inclusion on several advisory boards including Pinterest, ANA Media Council, ANA Board, MMA, IAB, VOX, SeeHer, and others. She previously led the GSK and Verizon Power of One solutions for Publicis and lead the L’Oréal business and Digital Practice at Wavemaker. Prior to her tenure at Wavemaker, Shenan founded the digital marketing agency Morpheus Media, which became renowned for its work with premier luxury, fashion and retail clients. Over the course of her career, Shenan has also worked across various outlets and brands including The New York Times, Neiman Marcus, LVMH, Net-A-Porter, Lord & Taylor, Tiffany Co., Chanel, A&E Networks, Vimeo, IFC, Sundance, and The Economist.

A strong advocate for developing the next generation of female leaders in her industry, Shenan was a 2023 212NYC Thought Leadership Honoree and selected by AWNY as a Changing the Game Winner in 2016 and an AWNY Working Mother of the Year Honoree 2015. She has been a judge for the Stevie Awards for Women in Business as well as an award recipient. and proudly serves on the Board of Trustees for the Miss America Organization.

Shenan resides in Bronxville, New York with her husband, two children and their beagle Pebbles, named for the Flintstones character who grows up to be an advertising executive.

Lartease Tiffith is the Executive Vice President for Public Policy at the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). He leads IAB’s public policy team, which is responsible for advocating on behalf of IAB’s more than 700 member companies on complex issues, including consumer privacy, data security, global trade, international data transfer rules, and more. Lartease also leads IAB’s Public Policy Council, the marketing and media industry’s largest legislative and regulatory advisory group, with senior executives from more than 200 companies contributing to solutions to advance consumer benefits and economic growth. He also plays an important role in supporting IAB Tech Labs’ efforts to align the industry’s technical development and best practices.

Lartease joined IAB from Amazon, where he led the company’s public policy work around advertising, privacy, security, data governance, cross-border data flows, and consumer protection issues. In his role, he provided counsel to internal legal and business partners on global public policy matters to help guide the development of products, services, and internal policies. During his tenure at Amazon, INSIDER named him as one of the key players in politics and the tech world.

Prior to joining Amazon, Lartease served as Senior Counsel to then-U.S. Senator Kamala Harris, and Counsel to U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein. Before working in the Senate, he practiced law at two international law firms (Kirkland & Ellis LLP and O’Melveny & Myers LLP) and the U.S. Department of Justice. Lartease began his legal career as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Roger L. Gregory, Circuit Judge, on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

Lartease earned his B.A., J.D., and M.B.A. from Northwestern University.

Alysia Borsa is President of Meredith Digital of Meredith Corporation’s National Media Group, the leading multi-platform media company focused on women – reaching 95% of all U.S. women and more than 190 million unduplicated American consumers every month. Borsa oversees all digital strategy, content, products, technology, sales, marketing, e-commerce and operations for the company’s 40+ iconic brands, including PEOPLE, Better Homes & Gardens, Allrecipes, Southern Living and REAL SIMPLE.

Since joining Meredith a decade ago, Borsa has served in several executive roles, including EVP/Chief Data Officer, Chief Business Officer and Chief Marketing Officer. Her distinguished record and forward-thinking approach have been instrumental in Meredith achieving many key milestones, including the establishment of the Meredith Data Studio. This suite of advertising solutions leverages the company’s rich, proprietary first-party data and predictive insights capabilities, helping to inform its partners’ marketing, product and business strategies. Under Borsa’s leadership, Meredith has also expanded its business partnerships with a wide array of retailers and blue chip marketers.

Prior to Meredith, Borsa held senior positions in the technology, telecommunications and consulting sectors. She worked at Nokia, Comcast and Accenture, developing and executing strategies to grow new and legacy businesses.

Borsa serves on the ANA’s Data & Technology Growth Council and the boards of directors of the Interactive Advertising Bureau; AdLedger, an industry blockchain trade group; and 4-H, a nonprofit youth development organization.

Jerry Dischler is a Vice President and General Manager at Google, and oversees Google’s Advertising products including search, display, shopping, travel and video advertising, as well as analytics. A 10+ year Ads veteran, Jerry led Google to move beyond plain text ads to deeper experiences, including the development of Ad Sitelinks and Product Listing Ads. Through various leadership roles on the team he’s played an important role in defining the future of advertising at Google including leading the transition from desktop to mobile advertising, accelerating direct response advertising on YouTube, and developing new ad products for SMBs.

Prior to his current role, Jerry led the product and engineering teams for ads on Google’s owned and operated properties (Search, YouTube, Maps, Gmail, Discover), buying platforms (Google Ads, Search Ads 360, Display & Video 360), and Google’s home-grown sales and support platform. Earlier in his career at Google, Jerry led Google’s commerce products, including Google Checkout (now Google Pay) and Google Product Search (now Google Shopping).

Before Google, Jerry served as the Director of Engineering at Avolent where he was instrumental in developing the company’s award-winning billing and payment products. He also worked in engineering and leadership roles at Hyperion, Sana Security, and Accenture, where his work focused on enterprise billing, customer care, and security software.

Jerry earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago and his MBA from The Wharton School of Business.

Gina Garrubbo is President and CEO of National Public Media (NPM), where she is committed to ensuring the continued growth of NPR and the public media system via funding from corporate sponsors. Garrubbo has spent more than 20 years in traditional and digital media growing marketing and sales teams, launching brands and building companies. She was one of the builders of Women.com, one of the first websites for women, and BlogHer, which brought independent voices to millions of readers. Garrubbo built advertising sales teams for Oxygen Media, Discovery Communications and in syndicated television. She sits on the Board of Directors of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and Glen Highland Farm as well as the Philanthropic Leadership Board of EatREAL.org.

Michael Hahn is Executive Vice President & General Counsel at IAB and IAB Tech Lab. Michael has responsibility for all legal matters, including the direction of legal strategy, privacy compliance, antitrust compliance, intellectual property rights issues, and general corporate matters. Michael is also responsible for serving as an advocate for the digital advertising industry on common legal issues affecting member companies.

Michael joined IAB and IAB Tech Lab from Lowenstein Sandler LLP where he served as Vice Chair of the firm’s Antitrust Practice Group. In that role, he provided clients with strategic counsel around competition, distribution and governance issues. In the area of litigation, Michael’s matters have included multiparty class action antitrust defense representation.

Michael served previously as Co-Chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association Antitrust Law Committee. He also previously served on the Editorial Advisory Board of Competition Law 360 and the Advisory Board of the American Bar Association Antitrust Section’s Civil Torts & RICO Committee. Michael frequently publishes on a range of legal and policy issues.

Michael earned his B.A. in History and Political Science from Rutgers University, M.P.P. from Georgetown University and J.D. for Georgetown University Law Center.

At Albertsons, Kristi is leading the launch of Albertsons Media Collective, transitioning the business inhouse and partnering with CPGs/endemic partners as well as non-endemic marketers to help brands build their businesses through Albertsons AdTech/MarTech platforms and rich first party data. This is a new strategic pillar for Albertsons as they continue to build deep, lasting relationships with their customers and drive long term profitable growth for partners and the company.

Prior to that, Kristi spent time at Bed Bath & Beyond as SVP of Brand Innovation to lead the innovation arm of the BBBY Brand team advancing key capabilities, developing new programs and services to build customer loyalty, and creating new ways to leverage brand marketing channels.

She also spent time at Target, originally as Senior Vice President of Media beginning in July 2014, spearheading Target’s enterprise media strategy to drive the balance of ‘Math & Magic’ through the capabilities of Communications Strategy, All Digital & Traditional Media Channels, Guest Engagement, and Measurement while also building Target’s vendor marketing into Target Media Network, Target’s entry into the publishing business. Kristi was then elevated to President, Roundel as TMN was elevated as a strategic priority for Target and the rebranding to Roundel under her leadership marked the elevation of this business in its importance to Target and the advertising industry.

While at Target, Kristi and her team’s work received industry recognition including: TR Top Women in Retail, CSA Top Women in Tech, Digiday People Based Marketing Pioneer, MMA Media Company of the Year, MMA Global Marketer of the Year, Digital 40 over 40, Internationalist Next 50, Brand Innovators Top 100 Women in Brand Marketing.

Prior to Target, Kristi held multiple roles at Mediabrands including leading global brands Microsoft and Schwab with her final role as President of MAGNA Global North America leading Automated Marketplace Development including Cadreon. She has also spent time at highly regarded Creative Agencies working on marquis brands including Nike, Starbucks, Fidelity, Dunkin Donuts, got milk?, HP and ebay. Among many accolades, Kristi has been named by AD AGE as a Media Maven and a Woman to Watch.

As the head of global media revenue and growth at Roku, Jay leads the advertising business for Roku Media, helping the ad ecosystem succeed in TV streaming.

Prior to joining Roku, Jay was Chief Growth Officer of Publicis Groupe and U.S. CEO of the company’s media investment arm, Publicis Media Exchange (PMX). Askinasi originally joined Publicis in September 2014 via the Groupe’s acquisition of programmatic platform RUN, where he was Chief Revenue Officer at the time. In 2016, he was elevated to President of Investment Solutions at Publicis Media, left the company in 2018 to join AT&T as Head of Agency & Platform Sales at Xandr, then boomeranged back to Publicis Groupe as Chief Growth Officer in 2020.

Born and raised in New York, Askinasi received his Bachelor’s from University of Maryland, College Park.

Sheri Bachstein oversees the IBM Watson Advertising and Weather business, which includes her role as CEO of The Weather Company and general manager of IBM Watson Advertising. Watson Advertising is a suite of media, data, and AI technology solutions that help advertisers across the marketing lifecycle. The Weather Company, an IBM Business, offers the most accurate, actionable weather data and insights to millions of consumers, clients and marketers via digital products from The Weather Channel (weather.com) and Weather Underground (wunderground.com). Her role also includes overseeing innovative AI-driven products and services for media clients.

Sheri has played a role on many different aspects of The Weather Company digital properties since joining in 2007. Previously she was global head of the consumer business, which included all aspects of The Weather Channel and Weather Underground consumer properties, including product management and design, content development and global expansion across the organization on Weather’s owned and operated properties.

Prior to that, she led global audience growth and has also led international consumer product for weather.com and The Weather Channel apps. While leading web efforts, she moved weather.com to a fully responsive site, improved SEO efforts, optimized referral traffic, and oversaw engagement and lifestyle sponsorship efforts. As vice president of product operations, Sheri’s overseen monetization, operations and the agile team. She’s also worked as a leader for audience products, as well as in product management for weather.com and global products.

But this isn’t her first stint at The Weather Channel. She worked previously for the television network as a producer and as part of the “storm tracking” team that went into the field to cover storms (1997-2000). Before returning to Weather, Sheri served as vice president of product and content at RMS Networks in Fort Lauderdale, FL. In her career she has also worked as a producer for WGNX-TV, Atlanta’s CBS affiliate.

Sheri has won multiple media awards, including an Emmy Award for breaking news coverage of the Atlanta Centennial Park bombing and an Associated Press Award for sports reporting.

An Atlanta native, Sheri received her bachelor’s degree in journalism from Georgia
State University. She enjoys playing golf, traveling and cooking.

As U.S. and Global President at MAGNA Global, IPG Mediabrands centralized investment and intelligence division, Dani leads both of the agency’s core competencies:
– Investment – She serves as the chief media buyer for all of IPG Mediabrands, negotiating with media partners on behalf of UM, Initiative and Mediahub clients.
– Intelligence – She oversees the company’s highly regarded suite of studies (ad spending forecasts, media trials and media economy reports).

Dani’s career spans nearly 32 years, including stints in TV sales and at agencies, including Mindshare, J. Walter Thompson and Grey, where she worked on a variety of clients including Warner Lambert, Sprint, DeBeers, Domino’s Pizza, Warner Bros. and Block Drug. She joined IPG in 2003 as a VP, Supervisor at UM and rose through the ranks to become EVP, Managing Partner at the agency.

Her tenure at MAGNA began as EVP Integrated Investment in 2016, where she played a key leadership role in media negotiations on behalf of IPG Mediabrands clients, and she continues to guide investment teams on brands such as Johnson & Johnson, BMW, Amazon and Merck.
A bold industry leader who continually redefines how media buying is conducted, Dani has been a constant force of positive change. Significantly, she innovated and continues to oversee two of IPG Mediabrands most important industry vehicles, the Equity Upfront ™, which brings together advertisers and leaders from diversely owned media outlets, and the Media Responsibility Index, a pre-eminent industry barometer that evaluates responsibility policies across a range of global media and social platforms.

Dani also advocated for moving clients’ upfront cycles from broadcast year to calendar, designed numerous innovative media partnerships and continuously tests new forms of data-driven media buys to ensure her clients receive the best efficiencies in the marketplace.

Through her career, Dani has been recognized with a range of industry achievements, including being named an Adweek Media All-Star in 2022. She is the proud mother of college-age daughter, Caylah, and is affectionately known around the office as Mama MAGNA for her supporting policies and empathetic management style.

As President, Mike Dean leads Ampersand in its evolution as a provider of data-driven, multiscreen advertising solutions for the industry. Dean oversees Ampersand’s leadership team, in conjunction with its owners, to unlock the full potential of the company’s assets, including the largest share of multiscreen television inventory, the richest set of deterministic and actionable data insights, and the largest addressable TV footprint in the U.S.

Most recently a Managing Director in Deloitte Consulting’s Technology, Media, & Telecommunications sector leading the Ad Sales practice, Mike was previously the SVP of Advanced Advertising at Paramount, leading an organization that was accountable for Advanced Advertising, Addressable TV, and Ad Sales Research & Insights. Before joining Paramount, he led programmatic and advanced advertising at Disney. And earlier in his career, he held sales and partnership roles at the ad tech company Videology. He is also a proud military veteran having served in the U.S. Army Airborne Infantry and holds degrees from MIT and Texas A&M.

Mike resides in Manhattan with his wife Miranda and frenchie, Coco. They are both novice sailors, novice golfers, tortured Mets and A&M fans, and are avid theatre goers.

Sharb Farjami serves as CEO of GroupM North America, where he harnesses over a decade of Csuite leadership to shape the next era of media where advertising works better for people. A champion of client excellence and thought leadership, Sharb is passionate about driving ambitious brand and business growth for GroupM, its diverse clients, and the communities they serve. He believes agencies should embrace technology and harness data for business outcomes.

Sharb leads a team of over 6,000 expert practitioners across GroupM North America and its three agencies. He was previously the U.S. CEO and COO of Wavemaker, where he led the agency to several blue-chip and new economy business wins, resulting in a leap in Wavemaker’sglobal WARC ranking from 13 to 7 in just three years.

Before Wavemaker, he held executive-level roles at News Corp, Viacom and Mindshare, building deep experience in digital media and business development. Sharb believes GroupM’s continued success in the marketplace depends on attracting and developing strong talent, embedding innovative operating systems, and employing cutting-edge tech to set the standard for the future of media.

Sharb serves on the board of several organizations shaping a better media industry, including the Paley Center, and the MMA. A Brooklyn resident and movie buff, Sharb has lived in five countries and is an avid runner and eternal optimist.

Rajeev co-founded PubMatic in 2006, based on the belief that publishers are underserved from a technology and services perspective, and set out to build an automation software company focused on publishers. The high pace of revenue and profit growth is fueled by Rajeev’s commitment to help publishers protect, monetize and manage their most valuable asset – the relationship between consumers, content and brands. 

Rajeev is a serial entrepreneur who has raised more than $250 million in funding throughout his career. Prior to PubMatic, he co-founded Chipshot.com, a leading online retailer of custom-built golf equipment, where he served as vice president of technology. At Chipshot, Rajeev also led product management and development, helping grow the company into a $30 million business. An experienced management consultant, he was also a principal at Diamond Management and Technology Consultants, an IT strategy consulting firm for Fortune 2000 clients, where he led teams on IT strategy engagements. In addition, Rajeev was a product marketing executive at SAP, where he was responsible for global go-to-market strategy for new products. 

Rajeev serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the IAB. He holds a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor’s degree in economics, political science and Spanish from the Johns Hopkins University. 

Sheryl Goldstein is the Executive Vice President, Chief Industry Growth Officer at the IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau). In her role, she oversees engaging the IAB’s 650+ members across all of the IAB’s vast initiatives, activities and thought leadership programs. Under Sheryl’s watch are the Member Engagement, Centers of Excellence, Research and L&D teams. She also spearheads talent development, diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and runs the IAB CRO Council.

Sheryl Goldstein is a “net vet” with over 20 years of driving meaningful revenue growth through consultative selling in the dynamic digital landscape (Yahoo, AOL, About.com). She is adept at building successful teams, developing go-to-market strategies and gaining consensus across key stakeholders. Her background includes a wide variety of digital media platforms and technologies and numerous leadership roles.

In addition to her experience as a sales leader, Sheryl brings years of talent development and training to her role and is committed to making the digital media landscape a great industry for diverse talent to thrive and have a long and exciting career.

Sheryl is a current board member for 212NYC, Makers and was a past Board member of She Runs It. She serves on the Rutgers Business School Advisory Board for Marketing and is helping RBS craft a digital marketing graduate program. In addition, she has served on Boards and Committees for the NY Ad Club, Women in Communications, Inc. and the IAB and is a member of Chief. She is an award-winning sales leader (Yahoo Accelerator Award, AOL Best Media Partner presented by Verizon, AOL Presidents Club, AWNY Crystal Award Winner).

Sheryl is a graduate of Syracuse University Newhouse School and lives in New Jersey with her partner Cindy and dogs Pancho and Camden. On the weekends, you can catch her on the pickleball court or riding around the Jersey Shore on her new electric bike. Her daughter Sarah-Jaana lives in the Boston area with her husband Michael.

Ryan Gould serves as Head of Digital Ad Sales for Warner Bros. Discovery where he oversees the digital team and sets the strategic direction for the company’s suite of digital offerings, including Max, discovery+, WBD Stream and CNN digital. Additionally, Gould oversees the company’s advanced advertising, programmatic sales, and data strategy. Most recently, he served as senior vice president of sales and client partnerships for Warner Bros. Discovery, developing sales strategy and partnerships across the Warner Bros. Discovery portfolio of digital brands.

Prior to that, Gould oversaw a team of digital sellers focused on a solutions-led, consultative sales approach across CNN’s digital portfolio, which includes premium verticals, mobile products, branded content, and programmatic capabilities. Previously vice president of sales and client partnerships, Gould helped evolve CNN’s digital sales business and scale client opportunities alongside the brand’s growth.

Gould initially began at Bleacher Report as one of the first sales employees in 2008 and supported building that business from the ground up – from building out the team while shaping its revenue strategy, to helping the brand raise multiple rounds of funding. After Warner Bros. Discovery’s acquisition of Bleacher Report in 2012, Gould spent time onboarding the brand to Turner Sports, and later transitioned to support the news division of the company. Prior to joining Bleacher Report, Gould spent over four years at Burst Media, where he formed the foundation of his sales experience.

Gould is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts with a Bachelor of Science in Management, and Concentration in Advertising/Marketing. He currently resides in New York with his wife and two sons.

Patrick Harris is President of Americas & Global Partnerships at Snap. He is responsible for supporting and managing Snapchat’s largest business and advertising partners in the U.S., Canada and Latin America. In addition to leading the sales organization, Patrick oversees the teams responsible for building partnerships with advertising agencies, ad-tech partners, media companies, creators, and more. His teams are focused on helping partners innovate and grow their businesses with Snap.

Prior to joining Snap, Patrick spent nearly 12 years at Meta, where he served as VP of Global Channels. There, Patrick built and oversaw a 1,000-person strong global organization of creative, advertising, and marketing science teams with a mission to empower partners to succeed today and transform for tomorrow. He was previously Meta’s Vice President of Global Agency Development, leading the team responsible for relationships with the world’s largest advertising agencies and consulting firms.

Patrick is a board member of the American Advertising Federation (AAF) and serves on the board of advisors at World Savvy, a national education nonprofit. He is a graduate of the University of San Diego and lives in Westport, CT with his wife and two daughters.

Lisa Ryan Howard is executive vice president, global chief revenue officer of Hearst Magazines, one of the world’s largest publishers of monthly magazines, with nearly 260 international magazine editions and more than 25 brands in the U.S. In her role, Ms. Howard is responsible for both U.S. advertising and marketing and Hearst Global Solutions, the company’s international commercial division that creates cross-market solutions for brands.

Ms. Howard joined Hearst Magazines in 2022 from The New York Times, where she was global head of advertising and marketing solutions, leading all aspects of The Times’s ad business. She joined The New York Times in 2016 as senior vice president of advertising and was promoted to senior vice president, general manager of media, a position she held for four years.

Prior to that, Ms. Howard served in business and revenue leadership roles at Billboard, Yahoo and WebMD. She also spent 14 years at Condé Nast, where she held a variety of senior roles, including senior vice president, chief revenue officer of the Fairchild Fashion Group (WWD, WWD.com), publisher of Style.com and vice president of digital for Condé Nast Media Group.

Ms. Howard is a graduate of University of Georgia. She currently resides in New York City.

Scott Howe is the Chief Executive Officer of LiveRamp (NYSE: RAMP), the leading data connectivity platform for the safe and effective use of data. Powered by core identity capabilities and an unparalleled network, LiveRamp enables companies and their partners to better connect, control, and activate data to transform customer experiences and generate more valuable business outcomes.

From 2011 to Sept. 2018, Howe served as CEO and president of LiveRamp’s former parent company, Acxiom—a technology and services company dedicated to providing the data foundation for the world’s best marketers. In 2014, Fast Company named Howe one of the World’s Most Creative People. Before taking the reins at Acxiom in 2011, Howe held executive roles at Microsoft and aQuantive, where his teams built the world’s largest digital agency (Avenue A|Razorfish); pioneered people-based media buying (DRIVE Performance Media, aka the Microsoft Media Network); and developed the systems utilized for ad serving and attribution (Atlas International). He began his career at The Boston Consulting Group and Kidder, Peabody & Company, Inc.

Howe is currently a board member of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB).

Jia Hyun is a global marketing and digital strategy executive with a 20+ year record of driving marketing innovation to generate double-digit revenue growth for firms, including LinkedIn, GE Capital, Citigroup, American Express, and MasterCard International. She is a strategic leader who’s created and led digital transformation initiatives, built ecommerce capabilities, and orchestrated integrated marketing teams, programs, and data strategies across multinational marketing organizations.

As Vice President, Strategic Accounts for LinkedIn, Jia currently leads the Global Sales and Client services teams across LinkedIn Marketing Solutions’ largest, most strategic relationships. Jia holds a Master of Business Administration with a concentration in Marketing and Information Systems from New York University. She lives in New York with her husband, 2 boys, and a Jack Russell. She is an enthusiastic amateur pickle artisan and prolific home cook who balances her love of eating with outdoor adventure, singing, and dancing.

Norm’s career in digital marketing began in 1995 at Modem Media, the agency that placed the first banner ad. He later launched Modem’s first international operation in London, assuming the role of President in 2004. He later joined Mindshare where he eventually became Global Chief Digital Officer, Global Chief Strategy Officer and CEO of FAST, the agency’s search and programmatic specialist division.

In 2018, Norm was named Global CEO of Unruly where he managed a premium video marketplace with 1.2b in worldwide user reach and ten offices around the globe. In 2020, Norm sold the Unruly business to Tremor International, where he is now a non-executive board director.

Norm is currently the Global Head of Advertising Strategy at News Corp, owner of The Times of London and the Wall Street Journal. When it comes to talking about all things digital, Norm’s expertise has been featured by the BBC, MSNBC, Sky News, The Economist, the Financial Times, the New York Times and all major trade publications. His first book, ‘Adaptive Marketing’, was published by Palgrave MacMillan in 2015. He lives in London with his wife and family.

Todd Kaplan is Chief Marketing Officer, North America, for The Kraft Heinz Company – a role he’s held since August 2023. In this role, Todd leads the Company’s marketing function across the North America Zone – Kraft Heinz’s largest, which is comprised of its U.S. and Canada businesses. This food and beverage portfolio includes more than 70 brands, including iconic brands like Heinz, Kraft Mac & Cheese, Oscar Meyer, Velveeta, Philadelphia, Lunchables, Ore-Ida, Capri-Sun, Jell-O, Kool-Aid, and Maxwell House.

Todd is responsible for building a culture of creativity and innovation throughout the North America marketing community to energize Kraft Heinz’s iconic brands and accelerate the business, fueling the Company’s next wave of growth. Additionally, Todd maintains oversight of the North America Growth Office, which brings together best-in-class media, digital, and creative capabilities (including the award-winning in-house content studio “The Kitchen”), and Kraft Heinz’s strategic joint ventures with NotCo and Just Spices.

Todd joined Kraft Heinz from PepsiCo, where he most recently served as Chief Marketing Officer – Pepsi. In his role, he led marketing for the company’s flagship brand, Pepsi, as well as other brands including Bubly Sparkling Water and MUG Root Beer. Todd was instrumental in re-energizing the Pepsi brand and is widely credited with bringing it back into cultural relevancy – from reimagining the Pepsi Super Bowl Halftime Show, to developing disruptive new product innovations, to creating some of the brand’s most globally awarded creative work. Most notably, he initiated and led the creation of an entirely new Pepsi logo and visual identity system for the brand that has been rolled out around the globe. His creative and ambitious approach to the Pepsi brand reversed decade-long business declines, resulting in Pepsi achieving positive sales growth for 21 consecutive quarters and significant double-digit increases across core brand equity measures – all while achieving record high metrics in earned media, social conversation, and creative effectiveness.

Todd held many roles during his tenure at PepsiCo, including leading the transformation of PepsiCo’s U.S. Water Portfolio. In this role, Todd created and launched two new brands: Bubly Sparkling Water and premium water brand LIFEWTR, delivering nearly $500 million in sales in their first two years, accelerating PepsiCo to become the #1 driver of growth in the U.S. water category. He also held various leadership roles at PepsiCo across Mountain Dew, Sports Marketing, Innovation, Consumer Insights, and Foodservice, where he consistently delivered an impact across the business. Prior to joining PepsiCo, Todd worked for Millsport LLC, a sports marketing consultancy, where he led the VISA International business.

Todd strongly believes in and lives the Kraft Heinz Values We Champion Great People and We Demand Diversity. An inclusive and authentic leader who actively champions diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging, Todd actively advocates for and is deeply passionate about building diverse and high-performing teams. He’s an executive supporter of the AdWeek DEI Council’s “Executive Mentor Program,” regularly gives his time to students through the ANA Educational Foundation, and has spoken at universities such as Yale, Duke, and Stanford. A strong believer in giving back, Todd dedicates much of his time towards the betterment of the marketing industry and developing young talent, sitting on the Board of Advisors for the Yale University Center for Customer Insights, Brand Innovators, and the OAAA Brand Council, and on the North American Board of Directors of the Ad Council, the Interactive Advertising Bureau, and the International Advertising Association. His energy and entrepreneurial approach to his teams create an inclusive culture of fun, learning, and possibility.

An established industry thought leader, Todd’s impact has been widely recognized within the global marketing community and beyond. He’s been recognized as a top CMO by Forbes on its “Entrepreneurial CMO 50” list and by Business Insider as one of the “Top 25 Most Innovative CMOs in the World.” He’s been honored with the UJA-Federation’s “Industry Visionary Award” and featured in The Wall Street Journal as an inaugural honoree in MTM’s “Visionaries” platform. He’s been featured by Rolling Stone as one of 20 “Marketing Rockstars” and selected as one of the country’s “Top 50 Marketers in North America” multiple times by OnCon Icon Awards. His work has garnered international recognition, including numerous Cannes Lions Awards, and he has served as a juror for a range of industry-leading creative entities, ranging from the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity to The Effie Awards to The One Club for Creativity.

Todd enjoys spending time at home with his wife and two sons. An avid tennis player, he also adores his beloved Los Angeles Lakers and has a passion for sports, food, music, and sneakers.

Todd holds a BA in Economics from Northwestern University, and an MBA from Yale University.

Craig Kostelic is chief business officer, revenue at Condé Nast, heading up all advertising sales across the Condé Nast portfolio.

Kostelic most recently served as the chief business officer of The Lifestyle Collection, including The Food Innovation Group (Bon Appétit and Epicurious), Architectural Digest, Condé Nast Traveler and SELF, overseeing all revenue and brand development for the collection of brands.

Previously, Kostelic served as head of revenue and head of digital for The Food Innovation Group. Under his sales and digital leadership, The Food Innovation Group hit record highs in terms of revenue, profitability and digital audience growth. Prior to his role at the Food Innovation Group, Kostelic also served as digital advertising director at Condé Nast Traveler, where he was responsible for all digital revenue streams and oversaw the launch of CNTraveler.com.

Before joining Conde Nast, Kostelic worked at Google where he was responsible for developing and managing national strategic sales for Mobile Display within the automotive vertical. Prior to Google, Craig held numerous sales and marketing roles at Microsoft and Johnson & Johnson.

Alison Levin is the President of Advertising & Partnerships at NBCUniversal. Reporting into Mark Marshall, Levin is responsible for shaping and executing the division’s audience focused sales strategy, and has oversight of all advertising sales initiatives for NBCUniversal across national, local, global, SMB Growth, Peacock, sports and Olympic and Paralympic Sales.

Before joining NBCUniversal, Levin served as Vice President of Global Ad Revenue and Marketing Solutions at Roku where she led the new product and go-to-market strategy for the company’s advertising business, including the TV streaming division. As the first ad sales hire for the company, Levin shaped Roku’s early value proposition with advertisers and built out the ad sales and support teams both in the U.S. and internationally, including marketing, research, analytics, publishing partnerships, strategy and more. Prior to Roku, she was a sales executive with YuMe, managing key accounts for its ad tech business, and has held sales positions with IAC and BusinessWeek.

Levin has received industry-wide recognition and was named to the 2019 Ad Age 40 Under 40 List, the 2019 NYC Television Week’s 40 Under 40 List, the 2020 Cynopsis Top Women in Media List, the 2021 Multichannel News Wonder Women Honoree List, and the 2023 Campaign US Inspiring Women Honoree List. She holds a B.A. from Boston University.

A catalyst of innovation, a pioneer in programmatic, a collaborative industry partner, and fierce champion for diversity and inclusion, Helen Lin is Chief Digital Officer for Publicis Media.

Helen oversees digital strategy, partnerships, investment and negotiations on behalf of Publicis globally, represents the Groupe in industry-leading initiatives including improving digital brand safety standards and the overall safety on today’s largest consumer platforms. Helen enables our clients including Disney, Verizon, Kellogg’s, Lowes, Coty, GSK, and many others, to remain at the forefront of the rapidly, evolving digital ecosystem.

Helen’s professional focus goes beyond client & agency work. She is the founding Executive Sponsor of Publicis Media’s Women’s Business Resource Group POW! (Power of Women!), and on the board of Asians in ADCOLOR. She is also an active board member for Partnership with Children, a non-profit that helps over 10,000 NYC school children overcome the stresses of growing up in poverty. Helen earned her bachelor’s degree at UCLA and her MBA at NYU Stern.

Alan Moss is Vice President, Global Advertising Sales at Amazon. His efforts are focused on helping businesses around the world engage customers and build their brands.

Prior to Amazon, Alan spent 13 years at Google, where he most recently served as Vice President of Professional Services supporting advertisers and publishers globally. Other roles included leading Google’s largest U.S. customer sales sector, as well as its Americas mid-market sales organization.

Alan has also held leadership positions at other technology and internet-based companies, including PayPal, ChartOne, Inc., GoTo Shopping (acquired by Yahoo!), CareTools, Wang Laboratories, Microsoft, and LEK Consulting.

Alan earned a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He lives in the Bay Area with his wife, Kirsten, and their son and two daughters.

Jamie Power is SVP, Addressable Sales, Disney Advertising, where she is responsible for propelling Disney’s high-growth Addressable business, including in programmatic, self-serve, performance marketing and streaming.

Most recently, she was Chief Data Officer and COO for Advanced TV at Cadent, where she spearheaded the go-to-market for one of the first programmatically enabled Addressable platforms and was instrumental in co-founding one2one Media. Prior to that, Power spent more than a decade on the buy side at major holding companies, and was a founding member and managing partner at MODI Media, GroupM’s advanced television group.

Power is a believer in the power of data to drive audience-targeting across screens and has been focused on bringing advanced analytics to the television marketplace for a majority of her professional career.

Sean Reardon serves as CEO of dentsu’s Media Practice in the Americas, overseeing the strategic vision and performance of Carat, iProspect, and dentsu X. In this role, Sean leads over 3,900 media innovators in the U.S., Canada, and Latin America, leveraging a scaled network of innovative capabilities, products and identity-driven solutions to support, grow, and transform the world’s leading advertisers.

An established veteran of the ad tech, advertising, media and marketing industries, Sean has over 25 years of experience driving strategy, business transformation, organizational growth and bottom-line results for the clients and organizations he has led. His track record as a CEO is one of proven business performance across a spectrum of environments. Before joining dentsu in early 2024, Sean was the Global CEO for MiQ where he helped fuel the company’s evolution to become the largest independent programmatic media company globally, overseeing 10 countries and 31 offices across 4 continents.

Vinny brings a disruptive lens to a media ecosystem that is constantly evolving. His approach to digital transformation starts with a deep understanding of business outcomes to translate into media strategies.

Vinny brings a unique approach to his role after spending the past 18 years in various roles at startups like Adap.TV, ad tech giants like Google and Amazon, leading Investment and Activation at GroupM’s Wavemaker and a 2019 Ad Age 40 under 40 nominee for his transformative work at The Hershey Company through the lens of Addressable Media.

As the VP, Media and Marketing Technology, Vinny is committed to being provocative in his approach to using data and analytics to address a brands planning, investment, activation, and measurement ecosystem. He continues to push the system as he looks to disrupt the changing landscape of media from a linear world to an addressable first world.

Joy Robins is the global chief advertising officer of The New York Times Company, where she leads all facets of its Advertising business and guides the strategy and revenue generation of the entire advertising team across the U.S. and EMEA, and T Brand Studio, the content studio within New York Times Advertising. Joy joined The Times Company in May 2023 and reports directly to president and chief executive officer Meredith Kopit Levien.

An accomplished leader with 20 years of experience, Joy is a strategic expert at applying innovative advertising models at scale to enhance consumer products. With her extensive background in media, Joy has a reputable presence in the ad and media industry and brings a strong understanding of subscription business model dynamics. Joy drives innovation and leadership in partnership with New York Times Advertising’s unmatched team–as they showcase the power and value of The Times’s essential subscription bundle to brands and marketers.

Joy has held a variety of advertising and leadership roles. Prior to joining The Times Company, she served as chief revenue officer at The Washington Post since 2019, leading advertising and subscriptions revenue. Before The Washington Post, Joy led advertising teams at Quartz for more than five years, most recently serving as global chief revenue officer, and previously held leadership positions at NBC News Digital, BBC Worldwide, The Weather Channel and OMD. Joy is on the board of The Ad Council and The MMA, and was featured on Ad Age’s 2017 40 under 40 and Ad Age’s 2020 Women to Watch lists.

Joy Robins graduated from Rutgers University. She is based in New York.

Kya Sainsbury-Carter leads the advertising team at Microsoft and is responsible for building and scaling Microsoft’s search, native, display, video, retail media and partnership offerings with more than $18 billion in annual revenue. With employees around the globe, the Microsoft Advertising team under Kya empowers monetization for Microsoft, key partners and the open web.

Kya has been with Microsoft for more than 16 years, all in the advertising business. She has played a number of leadership roles across Sales, Strategy, Operations, and Partner Management functions and across all channels and customer segments. Kya has built her brand on bridging from strategy to execution, synthesizing the complex into the actionable, high impact collaboration, and servant leadership. In recent years, in her role as VP of Global Partner Sales, Kya led the transition of Strategic Search Sales back from Yahoo, built up the 3P business in partnership with BD and Engineering, served as the business lead on the Xandr and Netflix deals, and has played a leadership role in Microsoft’s LGBTQ+ employee resource groups. Kya is a passionate people leader, known for cultivating productive and trust-based relationships, and for bringing humor and kind, direct communications to all she does.

Prior to Microsoft, Kya held roles in client service, product management, and ecommerce and was involved in the early days of what is now known as cloud computing. Kya also worked as a financial analyst and a restaurant manager. She remains a committed Deadhead and a passionate international traveler. Today, she lives in Bellevue, WA with her husband of 25 years, Neil. Kya is the proud mama of two beautiful, kind, smart sons –Mason (21) and Burch (18). She earned her MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management and her undergraduate degree from University of Arkansas.

Michael Scott is Vice President of Ad Sales and Operations for North America at Samsung Ads. He has held this role since August 2023, and prior to that, Michael lead the Brand Sales team for Samsung Ads in North America where he held that role since June 2017. With more than 20 years of sales, business development and marketing experience in the television marketing services, digital advertising, programmatic and sports marketing industries, Michael leads all revenue, sales and operations for Samsung Ads helping advertisers leverage Samsung Ads Smart TV insights to reach consumers where they consume their content across Smart TVs, mobile or desktop devices. Most recently, Michael served as Chief Revenue Officer at Tru Optik [acquired by TransUnion] where he managed business development and strategic partnerships with advertisers, agencies, data companies and adtech partners leveraging Tru Optik’s proprietary data set to access OTT audiences. Prior to Tru Optik, he was Senior Vice President, Strategic Partnerships for Cox Media Group’s Gamut, where he grew revenue by nearly 20 percent and Managing Director, Ad Intelligence for Ebiquity, where he led the advertising consultancy practice with teams around the globe and doubled revenue within his first year. As an entrepreneur, Scott started and later sold, two successful content marketing businesses/agencies – Fourth Element Group and MacDuff Inc. Earlier in his career, Scott worked for NBC Television Stations as the Director of Olympic and Sports Marketing.

Aaron joined Unilever in 2021 and oversees holistic investment across National and Retail Media.  Since joining Unilever he has been heavily focused on evolving retail media partnerships, working closely with shopper marketing, looking to enhance commercial process, ad offerings, data and measurement capabilities.  Additionally, Aaron is leading the charge of putting Unilever on the frontlines of media and is passionate about innovating in areas like streaming, social, gaming, and Web3. He is also leading a data in media committee which focuses on data strategy, data ethics, and being future fit.

Aaron’s has 17 years’ experience in media, spanning a range of categories and marketers. He has had the privilege of working on iconic brands like Coca-Cola, Fiat Chrysler, Microsoft, USPS, Subaru, Dyson, Sears/Kmart and many more.

Aaron resides in Maplewood, NJ with his wife, two baby boys, and two rescue cats.

Aaron holds a B.S. in Sports and Entertainment Marketing from New York University.

David Spector is the Co-Founder & President of ThirdLove. ThirdLove has grown to become the third largest online bra and underwear company in America according to NPD. Dave has always been an entrepreneur, starting his first company in college and another during business school. Prior to founding ThirdLove, he focused on consumer internet investing as a Partner at Sequoia Capital. Before Sequoia, Dave was at IBM and Google, where he helped lead Google’s first efforts in commerce with the launch of Google Checkout, Product Search, and Google Analytics. Outside of ThirdLove, he is on the Board of Directors of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and is an active angel investor and advisor in more than two dozen companies.

Dave has been recognized as National Retail Federation List of People Shaping Retail’s Future, Goldman Sachs’ 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs (4x), and EY Entrepreneur of the Year in Northern California. He is also a certified pilot and rather enthusiastically unaccomplished as a triathlete.

Jason Spero is Vice President in Google’s Global Business Organization. He is the Global Product Lead for Google’s Ads and Measurement offerings including Search, YouTube, Display, DemandGen, Shopping and Analytics offerings.

In his previous role as Vice President Mobile, Jason led Google’s pivot into Mobile responsible for product, sales and operations across Google’s Mobile offerings. Jason is passionate about the transformative influence of mobility and connectivity.

Jason has more than 20 years of experience in product, marketing and general management functions in digital and mobile. He joined Google in May 2010 as part of the company’s acquisition of AdMob where he was VP & GM Americas.

Jason is passionate about building solutions to protect our planet. He is an active investor and advisor in the Climate Tech space and leads Google’s effort to account for and reduce the carbon footprint of ad solutions.

Jason holds a bachelor’s degree from Amherst College and an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management. He serves on the Board of Girls who Code. Jason lives in San Francisco with his wife and two daughters.

Sarah Travis joined Target in 2021 and currently serves as the President of Roundel, Target’s organization reimagining media to drive value and joy for its guests and brand partners.  Sarah also holds a position on the Shipt Board of Directors, in partnership with other senior leaders at Target. Prior to joining Target, Sarah spent fourteen years at Google.  Most recently, she served as Google’s Managing Director of Retail and also led the Americas Sales Associate Program, Google’s leadership rotation program for new talent in sales.

Prior to joining Google, Sarah held several leadership positions within the healthcare industry.  Sarah holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Washington University in St. Louis and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. 

John Trimble serves as the Chief Advertising Revenue Officer of SiriusXM, where he is responsible for all advertising revenue, strategic sales marketing, and advertising operations for SiriusXM, Pandora, Stitcher and Adswizz. Throughout his 11 years at SXM, he was part of the management team that built Pandora from a Start Up into the public markets and most recently combined the assets of SiriusXM into the advertising brand, SXM Media. SXM Media’s diverse revenue streams tap satellite, podcasting and streaming audio that reach consumers in their cars as well as on their computers, mobile phones, and consumer electronic devices. Prior to SiriusXM, John held several senior level roles overseeing Sales at Glam Media, Fox Interactive Media, and Phase 2 Media.

John received his BA from St. Lawrence University. He currently sits on the Interactive Advertising Board and the Mobile Media Association Board. He is also on the Board of the Danny Butler Memorial Fund and St. Vincent’s Hospital in Harrison, NY. He resides in Rye, New York with his wife, Maggie, and their four children, Molly, Jack, Colin, and Libby.

MediaMath’s CEO Joe Zawadzki has spent his career redefining the marketing and advertising industries through software and data sciences. He has created and scaled companies with a combined $2B in market value, personally invested in a range of start-ups and is sought after for his vision on the future of technology.

Throughout his career representing marketers at top-tier agencies and Fortune 500 companies such as AOL, American Express, IAC, Verizon and Vonage, Joe has focused on the integration of media, data and data sciences, in software. That reached its peak with the founding of MediaMath in 2007, a company credited with starting the programmatic revolution with the first demand-side platform. MediaMath’s offering, centered around the TerminalOne software, powers the marketing practice of more than 3,500 brands worldwide.

Prior to MediaMath, Joe was Founder, President and Chairman of Poindexter Systems / [x+1] a pure-play marketing optimization enterprise, where he helped found and incubate Right Media, which sold to Yahoo! in 2007. He has been an active champion of digital media and the broader NYC startup ecosystem, having made investments in over 50 companies including 33Across, Accordant, AppNexus, CreditKarma, DataMinr, Electronifi, Integral Ad Science, Namely, Optoro, Sourcepoint, and Vistar Media.

Joe serves on the Executive Committee and Board of the Direct Marketing Association, an almost century-old trade association focused on serving the interests of consumers and brands through data-driven marketing, and of Hope for Vision, an organization dedicated to raising money for the development of treatments and cures for blinding diseases, with particular focus on retinal degenerative diseases.

He is a graduate of Harvard University and was a Teaching Fellow in cosmology, set theory and the history of science. He lives in New York City with his wife, Daria, and their children Dune and Jack.

Before joining the IAB, Piya has held a slew of positions. Most recently she was a management consultant at KPMG focusing on strategy and operations for marketing organizations. Prior to KPMG, she focused on brand media and advertising strategy at Horizon Media for clients in retail and CPG, and she served as a Research Analyst and on-air reporter at CNBC in Mumbai, India. Piya grew up in Princeton, New Jersey and has been a New Yorker for over twelve years. She moved to Miami in August of last year, all to swing right back to a city she calls home. Piya has her M.A. in political science from Bryn Mawr College and an MBA from University of Chicago Booth School of Business. In her free time, she is traveling, exploring new restaurants, and devoting time to yoga and meditation.

Vinitha has over 10 years’ experience in project management – leading teams and overseeing enterprise programs that support organizational goals within a Project Management Office (PMO) in IT, edtech, digital media, and entertainment industries.

She held leadership positions within a Global PMO at media companies like Paramount and Warner Music Group supporting executives with establishing PMO operations, strategic business alignment, optimizing and governing business processes, as well as managing resources and project financials. She has also guided cross-functional teams throughout the project lifecycle from discovery phases to delivery. Vinitha recently worked with The New School to implement a project portfolio management practice and toolset and continues to support them in an advisory council capacity. Vinitha enjoys solving problems and implementing process improvements for stakeholders.

Brendan is IAB’s Vice President of Policy Communications, helping to create greater awareness among policy makers and the press of digital advertising’s importance to technological and economic progress, creativity, and the ad-supported internet.

He works closely with IAB’s legal and public policy experts, as well as more than 700 IAB members, to enhance public understanding of digital marketing and advertising’s value to small businesses and their customers, and the industry’s innovations to online commerce, personal data protection and privacy, and more.

Prior to joining IAB, Brendan directed policy communications for members of Congress and for a major trade association. A graduate of Northwestern University, he received his Master’s Degree from University of Southern California and worked as a reporter and producer in the news and entertainment industries in New York and Los Angeles.

Adam Eisler is a Brooklyn based data privacy attorney and technologist. Adam has experience working with clients in a diverse range of industries on proactive and reactive data privacy issues. Prior to joining IAB, Adam worked as a Senior Consultant on data privacy issues, as well as an attorney for a mid-sized law firm and data protection team member for one of the “big four” professional services firms.

Adam received his Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Brooklyn Law School, a Master of Arts degree in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University, and a Bachelor of Arts in History and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Connecticut. In his free time, you can find him training in a variety of martial arts, reading, and spending quality time with his partner and two cats.

Andrea M. Ormond is a Senior Director in Operations at IAB. Before joining IAB, Andrea was the Global Head of CRM and Senior Director at a global consulting firm where she built and lead technical teams and had sole ownership of the firm’s entire CRM/Salesforce ecosystem and integrated systems. She has extensive experience with process improvement design, workforce coaching and development, cross-functional facilitation in service of clients, reporting / analytics, data privacy, vendor relationships and contract management, and IT roadmap development and strategic planning. She started her career in restructuring investment banking at various New York-based investment banking houses.

She holds an MA in French from Middlebury College (Paris Nanterre) and a BA in French & German from Hobart & William Smith Colleges. She is a 7th generation New Yorker. When not in search of a beach, she is spending time with her dog, exercising, reading, watching Grand Slam Tennis, or supporting the Animal Care Centers of New York City (NYACC).

Arlene recently served as Assistant General Counsel and Chief Privacy Officer at Lowe’s Companies Inc., a fortune 40 company in the home improvement retail industry. At Lowe’s, she established and oversaw the Lowe’s privacy program, led a cross-functional team to operationalize privacy requirements, and advised on complex data privacy regulatory issues to enable the company’s technology transformation. During her decade-long experience with Lowe’s, she has also covered regulatory compliance, ethics, antitrust, international trade, commercial and governance issues in both the U.S. and overseas operations. She holds CIPP/US, CIPP/C, CIPM and PLS certifications. Arlene received her J.D. from Wake Forest University School of Law, LL.M from University of Southern California, and LL.B. from Nanjing University.

Pam is a 30+ year veteran of the media and marketing industry who is a proven media strategist across digital, programmatic, and traditional platforms. Known for innovative approaches to media and marketing challenges that turn the complex media eco system into understandable ideas for both the C-Suite and day-to-day tacticians. Pam sees the world as a white board – empty, boundless space to create, transform and innovate for growth; to re-imagine how media and marketing can work to grow brands and build companies. Pam believes winning at the intersection of data, content, marketplace, and technology means refusing to let the status quo be good enough and being humble enough to know true transformation takes collaboration, iteration, willpower, and trust.

Pam spent her first 25 years on the agency side at Publicis Media leading clients such as Procter & Gamble, Microsoft, Activision, Yahoo and others. In addition to client leadership Pam built new practices for the agency including Advanced TV and Experience Design. To broaden her experience, Pam also spent 3 years leading Media for Starcom Mediavest Group in Russia when that market first opened to media in the mid-1990s. This taught Pam that anything is possible to create in the marketplace with some ingenuity, marketplace knowledge, and a relentless push creates win – win – win experiences for consumers, marketers and publishers. Following her work on the agency side, Pam spent five years consulting for the media and technology companies (NBCU, Fox, Viacom, Double Verify) helping them design custom programs and market their digital assets for growth. For the past fifteen months, Pam has been at Amobee, an Ad Tech firm, leading their marketing and sales strategy efforts to bring new identity, performance and new targeting techniques to the DSP and cross channel planning marketplace.

Pam lives in Hastings on Hudson, NY with her two sons.

Erick currently serves as Legislative Director and Senior Counsel to Congressman Steve Chabot (OH). In addition to handling the judiciary portfolio, Erick focuses on financial services, tax, labor, and technology issues. Erick formerly served as Legislative Counsel to Congresswoman Emerson (MO) and as an aide to Senator Jim Talent (MO) and at the U.S. Department of Justice in the Office of the Solicitor General.

While completing his law degree, Erick served on the Wiley Rutledge Moot Court Board and as Senior Editor of the Washington University Jurisprudence Review. He appeared on various media outlets to discuss the 2008 Presidential election.

Erick received his Juris Doctor from Washington University in St. Louis, School of Law and his Bachelor of Science Degree from Vanderbilt University in Political Science and Human and Organizational Development with a concentration on Public Policy. While studying at Vanderbilt, Erick served on the Honor Council and completed internships with the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate, the British House of Commons, and at the White House.

Erick is originally from Cape Girardeau, Missouri and he and his wife, Bridgette currently reside in Washington D.C with their miniature goldendoodle, Vandy.

Rick has significant experience across all sides of the marketing ecosystem including brand management, agency, media, digital, ad tech, data, analytics, and attribution. He started his career working on blue chip brands for several major NY ad agencies and then transitioned to the brand side at L’Oreal. After a successful stint launching and managing haircare brands, Rick took on a role running sales for Next Generation Radio, an industry association charged with generating new on-air and digital revenue. In nine years, NGR generated over $125M in new sales to the industry. After leaving NGR, Rick ran the NY Sales office for Alloy, helping to launch the largest teen ad network. Rick has also run sales teams at Music Mogul (a music start-up), Interactive One (a multi-cultural publisher), Specific Media/Viant (the largest ad network) and inPowered (a native platform). Most recently, Rick has been with Conversant, the identity platform and digital arm of Epsilon. In this role, Rick has been the lead revenue generator for Conversant’s emerging Restaurant segment.

Craig Coleman joins IAB with over 15 years of expertise developing marketing programs, messaging, and positioning strategies for IAB member brands such as USA TODAY, NBCUniversal, and MTV. He is excited to raise the profile of the IAB brand and positioning IAB as the industry thought leader in media and marketing.

Most recently, Coleman was VP, Client Solutions and Product Marketing for Gannett Digital and USA TODAY where he led digital product marketing and client solutions. Under his leadership, USA TODAY launched the award winning Gravity unit and introduced digital partnerships in virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR).

In previous roles, Coleman served as Vice President, Marketing for Screenvision where he launched a new branded content offering combining media, movie studio and partner assets. While at NBCUniversal, he was brand manager of the lifestyle brands Green is Universal, Healthy at NBCU and Hispanics at NBCU and oversaw the development and implementation of integrated ad sales marketing programs for advertisers across NBCUniversal’s portfolio including the first-ever movie studio program with Sony. Prior to joining NBCUniversal in 2010, Coleman directed all marketing and communications for the fastest growing kid’s network, Nicktoons Network. Coleman also co-produced the Nicktoons Network Animation Festival driving festival submissions and partnerships with LEGO, Addicting Games and mtvU making it the largest animation festival in North America.

Coleman earned a Bachelor’s degree from University of Connecticut, and currently resides in CT with his wife, Evan, and daughter, Bennett.

Shailley brings several years of product management experience in Digital advertising at Yahoo and Say Media building products for Mobile advertising, Ad Operations, Targeting solutions and integrating data platforms. Shailley has supported and worked with multiple IAB initiatives in the past namely MRAID and Mobile Rising Stars specifications. At Yahoo, he worked on creating innovative ad experiences for mobile and tablet platforms as well as native formats. Shailley has a diverse background as a product leader, consultant and entrepreneur building and sustaining high performing teams at both large organizations as well as venture funded startups like Paypal, Yahoo, Say Media, Serus, Accenture, PwC. By way of qualifications, Shailley has an MBA and Chemical engineering degree.

Before joining IAB, Tuba Kilic had worked as a Salesforce Developer for Tech Consulting Firms, where she led small teams and projects leveraging Salesforce’s powerful CRM capabilities.

She specializes in business process automation and customization using Salesforce’s declarative and programmatic features.

Originally from Istanbul, Tuba now lives in Morris Plains, New Jersey. She holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Istanbul University and is certified as a Salesforce Platform Developer I and Salesforce Administrator.

In her free time, Tuba enjoys cooking and trying new recipes, as well as participating in tech meetups and volunteering in her community.

Jack joins the IAB with over 20 years of experience at platforms, brands, and agencies leading global research and insights initiatives that foster smarter business decisions. An enthusiastic data-driven storyteller, he’s passionate about exploring the boundaries of research to elevate industry intelligence and strives to inspire action through insights.

Prior to joining the IAB Jack led and scaled global research, insights, and measurement teams at rapidly emerging digital media platforms including Microsoft, EA, LinkedIn, and Spotify. Most recently Jack was at Reddit, where he established the Marketing Sciences organization responsible for advancing ad measurement capabilities and partnerships, producing research amplifying industry awareness and understanding of online communities, and uncovering contextual insights and identifying audience trends that tell the world about their world.

Jack and his teams have accepted awards from industry bodies such as the Advertising Research Foundation and the Insights Association, and he’s had the pleasure of sharing research findings in publications and on industry stages around the globe. He attended Washington University in St. Louis, earning degrees from the Olin School of Business and the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.

Anna grew up in County Cork, Ireland where she received her degree in Chemical Physics from the University College, Cork in 2018. Shortly after graduating, she moved to New York and began her career working in data. Her most recent role prior to joining the IAB was as the Data Analytics Manager for the Law Offices of Robert S. Gitmeid. In her free time, Anna enjoys exploring her neighborhood – Astoria, reading, and watercolor painting.

Prior to joining the IAB, Emmanuel was working as a Salesforce administrator for a SaaS company based in Atlanta, Georgia. He specializes in telling visual narratives and simplifying complexities through Salesforce. Emmanuel grew up in Lawrenceville, a suburb northeast of Atlanta and now resides in Manhattan. He has a B.A. in Information Systems from Georgia Southern University where he played varsity soccer for four years. In his free time, you can find him playing soccer, exploring NYC, trying different restaurants, and attending comedy shows.

Chris Bruderle brings over 25 years of experience in Data/Web Analytics and Media Market Research at premium Digital and Muti-Platform web publishers including The Daily Beast, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Conde Nast Publications and This Old House Ventures.

Before working at IAB where he leads research-based thought leadership initiatives, Chris was most recently VP, Analytics & Research at The Daily Beast where he spent nearly 7 years and was responsible for the tracking, analysis and reporting of The Daily Beast’s O&O site and off-platform data/analytics for Senior/Corporate Management, Editorial, Advertising Sales, Product/Engineering, Audience/Business Development, Social Media and PR. He established the company-wide Editorial Analytics and Advertising Sales data and research stacks which included, among others, Google Analytics, Parse.ly, Krux DMP, Optimizely, comScore, Kantar, Samba, Newswhip, Crowd Tangle, Buzzsumo, and CrazyEgg.

Prior to The Daily Beast, Chris spent 5 years as Associate and Acting Director at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia where he directed the correspondence and development of all research-based strategies supporting the Advertising Sales and Marketing staffs of each of the MSLO media brands and platforms across digital, mobile/tablet, TV, print and radio. Chris has also held marketing and market research positions at Conde Nast and Time Inc.

Chris started his career at BBDO as an Assistant Media Planner where he most notably completed the “Media Training Program”.

Jeffrey Bustos is Vice President of Measurement, Addressability & Data at IAB — in partnership with Angelina Eng — where he focuses on data, privacy, and measurement. Previously, Jeffrey was at GroupM on the Data, Audience & Platform Strategy team working on audience science, data enablement, and measurement, while also developing sustainable and future proofing solutions. Jeffrey has a strong background in developing strategies and outlining processes for adoption with a focus on taxonomy, audience architecture and measurement. As part of the DAP team at GroupM, Jeffrey was a leader in developing strategic plans and measurement frameworks in preparation for cookie deprecation. In addition, he led the Cookieless Future Taskforce, participated in Global Identity panels, and developed training plans for cross-agency learning.

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.

Andrew Heyman has over a decade of experience in event content and programming, starting his professional career at Rodgers & Hammerstein before moving into the comic con world. He also led programming for Augmented World Expo (AWE), the largest and longest-running event series for the augmented and virtual reality industries. He most recently worked in industry event programming at The Paley Center for Media, where he curated and produced agendas, panels and talks with C-suite executives like Mattel CEO Ynon Kreiz and Xbox chief Phil Spencer, dignitaries and federal officials including Henry Kissinger and FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, as well as leaders from companies such as Disney, Apple, Marvel Studios, TikTok, Nielsen, and many more.

A longtime resident of NYC who recently relocated back to his home state of New Jersey (albeit now in Hoboken), Andrew is a graduate of Princeton University and holds an MFA in songwriting/musical theatre writing from the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. While he has released multiple albums of his own songs and has had musicals produced off- and off-off Broadway, Andrew spends most of his time these days with his wife, their four-month-old son Elliot and their cavapoo Sadie, honing his pop culture knowledge with everything from Broadway to Bravo.

Before joining the IAB, Cintia Gabilan had experience working across global ad agencies (Wunderman Thompson and Dentsu), CPG (Unilever), and tech companies (Facebook and Amazon). She has global experience driving growth by overseeing marketing, communications, and sales strategy. With a Master’s in Business, she most recently built many strategic and significant marketing programs at Amazon Ads, such as their Customer Advisory Boards, Analysts Relations, Competitive Intelligence program, and more. You can find her exploring nature, playing sports, and baking with her husband and daughter in her free time.

Over the course of her 15 year career, Rachel has had the honor of working at some of the most respected companies in the industry. Getting her start at Edelman PR, she focused primarily on forging and executing media and content partnerships with broadcast and digital properties on behalf of clients. Her subsequent roles supporting cable ad sales at NBCUniversal and the CNÉ sales team at Condé Nast fully immersed her in the world of digital media and sales marketing and set her up for success when she joined Vevo to lead their Ad Sales Marketing team. During her five years with the music video platform, Rachel was a respected leader within the sales organization and focused her efforts on innovating strategic solutions for client partners and crafting complex go-to-market products and narratives in support of Vevo’s global salesforce.

Zoe Soon has 10+ years of experience building products in technology-driven businesses with a heavy focus on mobile. Six years ago Zoe flew 21 hours from Sydney to NYC for a 30min coffee meeting which led to her first job in NYC. Since then she’s worked with three major New York based media companies, The New York Times, Condé Nast and Business Insider on projects ranging from location-based apps to paywalls. Zoe began her career as a user researcher and UX design consultant working with three of the top five banks in Australia. She was then hired to establish a user insights practice at Fairfax Media, a leading Australian news and media conglomerate. Here she led the user research for the flagship news apps which won Best Mobile News Product at the 2012 Australian Mobile Awards and went on to become product lead for the news sites. In this role she launched a content paywall and a unified user data system to diversify revenue and enable more targeted marketing.

Prior to joining the IAB Zoe was General Manager of apps and email at Business Insider where she was charged with defining the go-to market strategy for these platforms. In this role Zoe launched Insider Inc’s first OTT apps across Apple, Amazon Fire and Roku offering advertisers cross-platform video digital distribution and access to an audience that generates over 2 billion views each month.

Zoe has a Masters in Organizational Psychology and lives in New York. She enjoys burning pancakes, Cuban salsa dancing and talking to strangers in line.

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Rich brings a wealth of media experience across TV, CTV, Programmatic, Digital, Social and Tech both nationally and globally. He started his career working in digital at ESPN/ABCNews Internet ventures and has held management roles at Alloy Media & Marketing and IGA Worldwide where he led international sales for dynamic and static in game advertising solutions for several of the world’s largest video game publishers. After leaving IGA Worldwide, Rich joined Fandom where he launched the New York, Chicago, and UK offices laying the foundation for social gaming, entertainment and lifestyle community advertising. Rich has also held senior roles at Dashbid (programmatic video), Imgur and Simulmedia TV+. He lives in Brooklyn with his two sons.

Nicole joins the IAB as Senior Manager in the Member Services department. In this role she strategically engages and recruits IAB membership through the creation of our many offerings and events. Nicole draws from her wealth of industry experience both on the buy side, having worked for Saatchi and Saatchi, and on the sell side at Oddcast and Westwood One. Her natural curiosity and desire to learn the industry also landed her experience client side, working as a Marketing Manager for Emblem Health. Nicole graduated from Fordham University with a BA in Communications & Media Studies, as well as a business degree. Her latest curiosity is travel, and when not working she tries to discover as many new places as possible.

Kathleen has been the Event Director at IAB since 2018. In this role, she and the events team are responsible for all the behind-the-scenes magic that bring an event to life. Prior to joining IAB, Kathleen worked for over 10 years in the meeting and events industry. Most recently as the Senior Manager, Special Event for the David Lynch Foundation and the Event Director at IQPC, a leading conference company.

In her spare time, she loves to travel, explore the NYC/Hoboken restaurant scene, go on brewery tours, binge watch Law & Order, and spend time with her boyfriend and nieces.

Kathleen received her Bachelors of Science from James Madison University and currently resides in Hoboken, NJ.

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Mayank is a visionary technologist, bringing several years of thoughtful leadership in all stages of technology design, development, execution in support of a product vision and road-map with experience from large corporations to early startups adept in conceiving, defining, developing, & launching Web & mobile applications.

He has designed system software, Middleware, eCommerce and Mobile platform/apps for Fortune 50 corporations to startups for companies like IBM, Appssavvy,Kickapps and Flurry.

With certifications like PMI, Java/J2EE, Business Rules and also being speaker at developer conferences, he loves learning new technology and designing platforms.

With several mobile apps in app store and SDK’s running on thousand of devices, he loves to spend time in building mobile and wearable apps or playing guitar.

Joe Pilla joined IAB in Summer of 2018 as Director, Data & Automation within the IAB Programmatic+Data Center. In his role, Joe works closely with Orchid Richardson, VP, Managing Director on a variety of projects related to data transparency, attribution modeling and the changing consumer experience.

Joe brings a wealth of diverse media experience to IAB from his accomplished career in advertising research and consumer insights. Previously, Joe was Vice President, Social Insights at Zenith Media where he led the Social Intelligence practice providing clients with data analysis related to their brand environment, online conversation and campaign performance. Joe spearheaded several agency thought leadership initiatives covering a wide spectrum of topics including brand integrations, the rise of Influencer Marketing, shifts in consumer behavior, and the relationship between televised tent pole events and Social Media channels.

Prior to Zenith, Joe was the Associate Director of Media & Consumer Insights at Mindshare where he led the adoption of The Loop, the agency’s global operating system linking real-time multimedia insights to real-time actions. Naturally curious, Joe excelled at developing the annual US Consumer Trends presenting the agency perspective to clients nationwide. Before making a move to the agency world, Joe honed his storytelling expertise at Condè Nast, Meredith Corporation and Reader’s Digest where he mastered syndicated research bringing the magazine consumer to life.

Joe earned a Bachelor’s of Science in Marketing from Rutgers University. He lives in Long Island City with his husband Kevin Davis, AIA. Joe sits on the board of SuperCommunityLIC, a local organization celebrating the local community while finding ways to give back. In his spare time, Joe produces his YouTube Channel “Pop Culture Monger” dedicated to the latest entertainment news with the tagline nonsense to follow.

Soizic Sacrez is the Vice President of Marketing for IAB, providing leadership and management of the IAB marketing team and activities to forward the organization’s position as a digital, marketing, and media industry thought leader and agenda-setter. She oversees strategic marketing, public relations, event marketing, and executive communications. She joined IAB in 2015 and has worked with all business units and IAB Centers of Excellence in both New York City and San Francisco. She brings over 20 years of digital marketing, advertising, and media experience as well as expertise in Hispanic, multicultural, and global marketing.

Prior to joining IAB, Soizic led the digital marketing initiatives at several member publisher companies, including Terra (part of Telefónica), impreMedia Digital, and La Opinión, the leading Spanish-language newspaper in Los Angeles. She also worked for Xerox in France, Pacific Consulting Firm in Japan, and WHDH TV (7 News / NBC affiliate) in Boston.

Trilingual in English, French, and Spanish (with some Brazilian Portuguese or “Portuñol” knowledge), she also speaks some Japanese. Soizic was born and raised in France and has lived in London, Strasbourg, Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco. She is a student pilot and loves flying and traveling around the world. She now lives in Brooklyn with her son and her life partner.

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Jill Wittkopp is Senior Director of Management at the IAB Tech Lab, a global consortium for technical standards in the digital advertising industry. Prior to joining the IAB Tech Lab, Jill worked on the buy side of programmatic advertising with companies like MyBuys, Magnetic and Rakuten. She has a B.A. in English from the University of Michigan, Dearborn and lives in San Francisco, California.

Jarrett Wold comes to the IAB Tech Lab with a diverse background in technology leading teams focused on digital applications. His most recent role was Director of Technology and Platforms at Ad-ID, where he was overseeing Ad-ID’s technology endeavors and focusing on industry standards for the advertising ecosystem. His former role as Director of Technology includes Ad-ID, Rodale, Inc. and HealthiNation. He also worked at AOL on AOL Video, AOL Search, and Moviefone. He graduated from Syracuse University and is a huge Orange fan!

Barnaby has spent over 15 years working in the digital advertising landscape, collaborating with agencies, publishers, and ad tech vendors. His tenure of over a decade at Operative was marked by his significant contributions towards assisting digital media firms in enhancing their advertising revenues and streamlining their workflows.

Barnaby excels at transforming intricate technical concepts into engaging narratives and messages that strike a chord with all participants in multifaceted cross-functional projects. Born and raised in London, he now calls midtown Manhattan his home. Away from work, he is likely to be found indulging in theatre, producing for Regeneration Theatre company, or exploring museums and restaurants throughout the city.

Rowena brings years of experience in product development of ad-supported casual games on mobile and web. Most recently, she led product at Jump Ramp Games where she was responsible for the strategic direction and vision of the consumer-facing mobile apps. This included the development and launch of several games, supporting internal tools, and ad monetization services. In addition to product leadership, Rowena also has a background in digital marketing. In her spare time, Rowena enjoys trying out new recipes and traveling.

Matt Shapo is a product development and digital strategy leader who brings more than 20 years of experience overseeing the creation and multi-platform delivery of online content and internet advertising to his role as the Director of Digital Audio and Video at the IAB.

Before IAB, Matt served as VP of Digital Content for the All Access Music Group, a music marketing company and audio industry news publisher where he planned and led advertising, editorial, and other growth initiatives for AllAccess.com, a B2B website that delivers breaking news, data, and commentary to an audience of professional audio content creators, salespeople, and decisionmakers.

Over the course of his career, Matt has directed and measured the effectiveness of integrated advertising and email marketing campaigns for multiple leading record labels and radio companies. He has also led the ideation, development, launch, and continuous iteration of profitable digital media products, including an industry leading digital audio distribution platform that delivers new music and related content to a nationwide user base of radio stations, streaming services, tv networks, podcasters, and others.

Matt holds a B.A. in Political Science and International Relations from Tufts University and an M.F.A. in Radio, TV, and Film Production from Florida State University, and he is a devoted fan of his hometown Miami Dolphins. He lives with his wife, Jennifer, and their wonderful son Evan, in Randolph, NJ where he is an enthusiastic hiker and a proud member of the Randolph High School Marching Rams parents’ road crew.

Colleen Shields joined the IAB in 2012, and supports the IAB Tech Lab in advancing the team’s work of producing protocols and tools that help companies implement global industry technical standards. Colleen is a native Wisconsinite, though she has lived in London and Sydney previously. In her spare time she enjoys attending storytelling and comedy events around New York, pointing out that all things great in the world stem from Wisconsin, hiding her North-woods accent, and working on silversmithing in her basement.

Hill is a dad joke aficionado, avid reader, podcast junky, and boasts a 995-day streak on Duolingo. She comes to TechLab from Epsilon where she was the product lead for their partnership with The Trade Desk and the Disclosed offering. She got her start with the IAB TechLab in the Distributed Ledger working group via her role at GroupM as the Assoc. Director of Product Management on the Global Investment Systems team. She has varied experience on both the buy and sell side of the industry and enjoys nerding out about all things ad tech.

Amber is the Vice President of Human Resources for IAB. She stepped into the role in May 2022 and has oversight of the organization’s human resource functions, including culture, diversity, inclusion, and all people-focused initiatives.

Amber is an Equity Designer, People Strategist, and an Authentic People & Culture leader. Amber joins IAB with 15 years of experience; in Human Resources leadership roles within nonprofit, mission-driven organizations. She brings a unique mix of human resources, executive coaching, and thought leadership expertise.

Most recently, Amber was the Head of People & Culture at Sollis Health, where she launched the company’s first-ever human resources strategy and led the organization through a culture transformation. She holds a master’s degree in Human Resources Development from Fordham University, a senior professional human resources designation, and multiple professional coaching certifications from iPEC & IIN. In 2020, Disruptor Magazine named Amber one of the Top 30 Life Coaches to Look Out For in 2021.

Before joining the IAB Tech Lab, Raymond had been working as a Product Architect Ad Technology Distribution for NBC Universal and Sr. Product Manager Television Advertising Solutions for Arris International. He specializes in designing and implementing TV advertising solutions for North America and internationally. Raymond grew up and resides in Philadelphia. He is a graduate of the Connecticut School of Broadcasting and is a member of the Society of Broadcast Engineers. In his free time, Raymond is an avid reader and frequently attends film festivals.

Todd is an award-winning B2B and B2C brand strategy, marketing, and partner development executive. Before joining IAB, Todd worked for media companies/brands such as Paramount (MTV, MTV2, Showtime), NBCUniversal (Syfy) and Fuse Media (formerly NUVOtv / Si TV). More recently, Todd was an independent marketing and partner development consultant, working with companies such as HUDSY TV, COLLiDE Agency, The Content Farm and Pitch 5 Productions. Todd grew up on the East End of Long Island in East Moriches, NY and currently resides in the Hudson Valley in Beacon, NY. He has a B.A. in International Relations and Spanish from Bucknell University. In his free time, you can find Todd spending time with his family, going to concerts and baseball games, as well as adding to his vinyl record collection.

Erin comes to IAB with nearly 15 years of experience in event marketing. Most recently working in healthcare and life sciences as Director of Strategic Initiatives and Special Events, Erin enjoys the balance between the creative and analytical that comes with the territory. She gravitates towards building the storyline of a campaign, and then ‘nerds out’ gathering the data and monitoring the trends. Erin is originally from Connecticut, where most of her family still resides, and now lives on the Upper West Side. She holds a B.S. in Marketing from Central Connecticut State University, and various event related certifications, including the CMP.

Erin is a health and wellness junkie and recently received certification as an integrative health coach. You can often find her wandering a bookstore or a farmer’s market and enjoying the city.

Marc has over 15 years of operations experience with complex, integrated digital campaigns across many verticals including financial services, CPG, automotive, electronics and healthcare.

With a formal background in application development, Marc continues to be amazed by technological advances and is thrilled to be joining the IAB family. When not testing the limits of ChatGPT, Marc enjoys playing the piano and attending live theatre.

Dorotea Lechuga is the senior manager and website lead for the IAB and is responsible for the content, strategy, and administration of the IAB’s website and online services. She has a Master’s in Library and Information Sciences from Syracuse University and a Full Stack Developer Certificate from Coding Dojo, a prominent coding Bootcamp. Before joining the IAB, Dorotea worked at GroupM- first under the chief innovation officer managing an internal knowledge portal, and then on the global corporate communications team focused on the administration of the worldwide website. She worked as a web developer at Link Solutions, coding new features that were cross-browser compatible and responsive for a military client. She is excited to utilize her skills to further the IAB’s mission.

Tyler is a data-driven, creative digital marketing strategist. She thrives on leveraging the latest technology to craft impactful campaigns and content. Prior to joining the IAB, Tyler led marketing for a consulting agency specializing in cultural intelligence, innovation strategies for the C-suite, and an AI-powered SaaS platform.

Tyler holds a Bachelor’s in Communications and German & French Languages from Nazareth University then completed her Master’s in Integrated Marketing from NYU. Originally from metro Detroit, Michigan, Tyler now calls New York City home and when she’s not working, you can find her running or cycling along the river, reading in the park, or enjoying croissants.

Prior to joining the IAB, Emilia served as the Director of Sales Solutions at Vevo where she worked for six years and focused on integrated marketing strategies for Vevo’s top advertisers. She specializes in producing creative and strategic solutions for advertisers, and previously worked for publishers including SPIN, Vibe and NPR. Born in Argentina, she speaks fluent Spanish and grew up in Oregon and Maryland. She has a B.A. in English Language and Literature from the University of Maryland, College Park, with a focus on creative writing. Now residing in Putnam County, New York, she has a passion for gardening and grows thousands of cut flowers in her backyard that she sells locally.

Rachel is the Social Media Manager at the IAB, and has been in the industry since the early days of Instagram. Rachel studied Journalism in Moscow State University, which is where her love of storytelling grew strong and later turned into a full career. She thrives off of learning and processing information! In her free time, Rachel sketches, sings and geeks out on all things music.

As a CMS (content management system) admin and project coordinator, Elizabeth is involved with content, page creation, and maintenance of the website. She plans, customizes and integrates third party softwares and applications with the website for the best possible user experience.

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Brian Albert leads the US Google/YouTube media partnerships team, driving strategic display & video deals with our largest advertising clients and agency partners.  He also is responsible for all Google Preferred & other YouTube premium video upfront negotiations.  Before this, Brian led a team which enabled independent media & creative agencies to unlock value across Google's media properties & technology platforms.  

Prior to Google, Brian spent 15+ years as a labor & employment attorney, sports marketer representing professional athletes, Internet entrepreneur at 3 early stage start-ups and digital marketing agency executive. 

He served on the Ad Council's inaugural Social Impact Council in 2016 and currently supports YouTube’s involvement with the IAB Digital Content NewFronts.  A graduate of The University of Michigan and The George Washington University Law School, Brian resides just outside Boston, MA with his wife and son.

Kyle Antoian is the Vice President, Strategic Partnerships at Epsilon, responsible for identifying and integrating new partnership opportunities into the company’s product line. Antoian helps lead the strategic partnerships group at Epsilon and focuses on data commercialization, new product incubation, and partnerships.

Kyle joined Epsilon from Datran Media where he led strategic partnership expansion with a focus on growing the user base of publishers and sustaining and prospecting match partners. Prior to that he was Marketing Manager at Takkle Inc, tasked with new customer acquisition and analytics.

Kyle holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Duke University. He is the assistant coach of Philadelphia-Whitemarsh Rugby Football Club and sits on the board of the Eastern Pennsylvania Rugby Union.

Yoav Arnstein is the Director of Product Marketing for Publisher Solutions in Facebook’s London office. Yoav joined Facebook from LiveRail. Previously, he was at Legolas Media where he was CEO and grew the company to a multi-million dollar revenue business. Prior to Legolas, Yoav was at Eyeblaster (now MediaMind) where he was GM International, and then GM North American operations. At Eyeblaster, Yoav oversaw revenue growth of more than 5x, opened multiple international offices and helped build Eyeblaster into the world’s leading rich media ad platform. Yoav holds a B.Sc in Computer Science and Statistics from Tel-Aviv University and an M.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Denmark’s Technical University.

As Chief Digital and Operating Officer at PHD USA, Craig maintains a dual role with oversight of the agency overall as well as serving as the champion of thought leadership and innovation focused on the agency’s output.

Craig came to PHD after 6+ years at sister agencies OMD and Omnicom Media Group where, most recently he served as Chief of Acquisitions, North America, leading strategic and corporate development for Omnicom Media Group, with a particular focus on emerging areas of digital channels including search marketing, mobile, social media and content development. In addition, Craig was the overall owner of the client relationship for the McDonald’s US business at OMD.

Before taking on the Acquisitions role, Craig served as Midwest Regional Director at OMD and was responsible for the strategic direction and regional oversight of OMD’s Chicago operations.

Craig has held positions within digital marketing since its inception in the mid 1990’s, playing key Account, Media and Strategy roles at Modem Media, Digitas, and Arc Worldwide leading digital marketing strategy and program development for such clients as Intel, Michelin, HP, the U.S. Army and Allstate. Craig also spent two years on the client side working inside Washington Mutual’s ecommerce group as a product manager, leading development of applications to acquire and securitize mortgage backed loans.

A frequent speaker and recognized thought leader in the emerging and digital marketing landscape, Craig is regularly quoted in such publications as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Advertising Age and Adweek.

Craig is a graduate of the University of Vermont, recently relocated to the NY area and is thoroughly enjoying eating his way through his new neighborhood in Brooklyn with his wife Nikki and sons Jake and Sam.

Mark Avnet is Senior Director of Learning and Development at IAB, bringing over 25 years of senior leadership, learning and development, talent management, thought leadership, and innovation experience to IAB, its members and partners.

Before joining IAB, Mark was Senior Business Advisor for the Massachusetts Small Business Development Center, run through UMass Amherst in partnership with the US Small Business Administration. Simultaneously, Mark founded Converging Arts, a consultancy focused on professional development and education, working with clients in advertising and marketing, education, legal, technology, and publishing.

Prior to that, Mark was Head of Learning and Development at 360i, founding and leading L&D and Thought Leadership at this large Dentsu-owned digital-first advertising and marketing agency. He developed and facilitated programs to help the large employee base develop manager and leadership excellence, interpersonal and group communication skills, presentation and writing skills, ideation techniques, unconscious bias awareness and mitigation practices, dealing with digital disruption, and more. He also created video-based and online courses for both employees and clients. Mark worked directly with, and crafted and delivered L&D programs, for 360i clients including Coca-Cola, Nestle, Barilla, Kraft, Mondelez, Canon, Mattel, and Oscar Mayer, as well as colleges and universities on behalf of 360i.

Mark’s academic credentials include Professor and founding Head of the Creative Technology program at VCU Virginia Commonwealth University’s Brandcenter, widely recognized as the nation’s top graduate school in advertising and marketing. Mark was Chair of Communications at Russell Sage College/Sage Colleges of Albany, Visiting Professor at Marist College, and Adjunct professor in both NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Communications. Mark also developed a robust online program in Digital Branding and Strategy for SU’s master’s degree program.

Other industry roles include Senior Vice President and Director of Technology and Production at Ammirati Puris Lintas, Chief Technology Officer and Head of the Innovation Lab at Lot21 Interactive, Head of New Media at @radicalmedia, and Executive Producer and Head of Production at Hearst New Media.

Mark has been a professional musician, recording engineer/producer, and recording studio owner. He is a certified clinical hypnotherapist, and in an early career left-turn raised giant sea slugs for a living.

Matt has worked in digital media for over 12 years with stops at companies like neo@Ogilvy, CBS Interactive, and Undertone. He currently lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn with his wife (who is also in the industry) and 4-year-old son.

Paul is the Chief Strategy Officer at CafeMedia, the world’s largest ad management service, providing the technology and services that help the highest quality publishers grow their businesses and maximize success. The company serves over 3,000 independent publishers whose distinctive voices are shaping the open web. The company’s collective of creators reaches more than 160 million monthly unique visitors, ranking as the 11th largest digital entity and as #1 in Food, Family, and Home.Paul focuses on new product innovation, strategic partnerships, and corporate development at CafeMedia. During his time at CafeMedia, he led the company’s transition to a programmatic-first approach, spearheaded the early adoption of header bidding, and directed the transition to a publisher services model. Paul has worked in digital media and advertising since the mid-90s, starting a major video game publisher out of his parent’s basement. He worked for early internet pioneers including USWeb/CKS and CMP Media.

Airey Baringer is Head of Product at Quantcast. At Quantcast, Airey is focused on developing product and business solutions at the intersection of privacy and advertising.

Previously, Airey led business and product development teams for consumer internet and SaaS products, including products focused on helping consumers complete their taxes, understand and act in accordance with the Affordable Care Act, and increase access to sustainable food products. In his free time, Airey is usually trail running, backpacking, cycling, and eating his way through the San Francisco Bay Area.

Christina Beaumier can get by in a few languages. She can order street food in Spanish and handle tribal negotiations in Burkina Faso in French. She understands the artist’s argot of her Northampton, MA hometown; comprehends the brainier dialects that originate at MIT, her alma mater; and is attuned to the intricacies of the Brooklyn accent, where she now lives with her family.

After a Peace Corps stint in Burkina Faso, and business school at MIT Sloan, Christina started her post-MBA career in investment banking, learning an analytical linguistics based on rigor and numbers. She was then exposed to the more creative syntax of the marketing world.

This path led her to Xaxis where she had a meteoric rise, starting as Director Strategic Engagements, then VP Global Client Development, then VP Media Product Development, and ultimately becoming SVP and leader of their digital ad unit. She was most recently a Strategic Partner Lead, Video Distributors and Telco, at Google, further solidifying her position as the Most Interesting Women in Ad Tech.

Her combined studies across continents and industries have made her into one of the most fluent translators in ad tech:

Within ad tech, nothing is a silo! There’s always a business development angle, a client angle, a technology angle, a media angle, a product angle… so being able to speak different languages and relate to different stakeholders is a powerful tool to help bridge gaps and bring people together.

Christina now brings her encyclopedic experience and comprehensive understanding of the industry to her role as VP, Product, TV Platform for AT&T’s advertising and analytics company Xandr. She considers this to be the perfect place to bring everything together: the rigor of analytics and the stories of brands, finally translated into a message that people care to hear.

The future at AT&T is exciting and not without uncertainty, but Christina finds herself comfortable in imbalance. She believes that the essence of business and life is a commitment to always correcting those imbalances, and finding the best way forward.

Advertising needs to relearn how to communicate with humans; Christina is the polyglot for the job.

Tom Bedecarré is one of the most influential leaders in advertising today. Recently named “Silicon Valley’s Favorite Adman” by Fortune Magazine, he was described as a rare hybrid who has cred with both Silicon Valley techies and advertising’s Mad Men.

Tom is CEO of AKQA, the world’s largest independent digital advertising agency. With 1,000 global employees, AKQA has offices in Amsterdam, Berlin, London, New York, San Francisco, Shanghai and Washington D.C. and serves leading clients including Audi, Heineken, Nike, Target, Visa and Xbox.

An enthusiastic entrepreneur, Tom has been an innovator and pioneer of the advertising and communications business over the last three decades. Previously, Tom was founder and CEO of Citron Haligman Bedecarré, San Francisco’s largest independent advertising agency and a leader in launching Internet brands.

Tom holds a BA degree from Stanford University and an MBA degree from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Jeff Benjamin, former Partner and Chief Creative Officer at Crispin Porter + Bogusky, joined JWT in 2012 as Chief Creative Officer, North America.

During his career, Jeff has navigated clients through the interactive landscape with great success, creating some of the world’s most pioneering and famous campaigns. His ability to lead multi-national marketers to experiment and break ground has continually opened up new doors for brands such as Best Buy, Coke Zero, Domino’s Pizza, Microsoft and Kraft. ‘Subservient Chicken’ and ‘Whopper Sacrifice,’ his campaigns for Burger King, are among the most successful viral marketing campaigns of all time.

Jeff has been recognized internationally by every major industry award show, winning the Grand Prix at Cannes in three different categories, Best of Show at the One Show, and the Grand Clio at the Clio Awards. He served as president of the Cyber Jury at Cannes in 2010, has been profiled in Fast Company and The New York Times, appeared in the ‘Creativity 50’ and is regularly called upon by television networks such as CNBC to comment on the state of the industry. His work has been showcased in numerous publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Communication Arts, Time, and Newsweek.

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.

Paige Bilins leads Telaria’s global product team and is responsible for developing the company’s product strategy and designing and bringing to market proprietary yield and inventory management software solutions for premium video publishers across all screens and transaction types.

Prior to joining Telaria, Paige was SVP, Product Management at Freewheel where she spent over eight years. In that role, she led product strategy across two businesses resulting in double digit year-over-year growth. Ms. Bilins started her career at as a software engineer in the defense industry at Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman.

Paige holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Arizona State University as well as an MBA from Yale University.

Winston Binch is Chief Digital Officer, Deutsch North America, and one of the most accomplished digital marketing leaders and innovators of his generation. Over the past 15 years, he’s developed some of the industry’s most influential and meaningful digital campaigns, products, and experiences, bringing customization to Nike by way of Nike iD and the Pizza Tracker to Domino’s, Whopper Sacrifice to Burger King, and reinventing Volkswagen’s approach to online car shopping. He has also advised countless global brands and conglomerates on how to identify the marketing potential of the digital age, including American Express, Best Buy, Microsoft, Target, Pizza Hut, Vail Resorts, Sprint and Taco Bell. An educator and humanitarian at heart, Winston is co-founder of Boulder Digital Works at the University of Colorado, a digital continuing education program, and sits on the board of Protect Our Winters, a non-profit organization against climate change. See what he’s up to on Twitter or Instagram @winstonbinch.

Marcela is an Executive Assistant that has been working with C- level in the marketing/ media/ advertising industry for over 10 years.

Renee Bourne is a dynamic and resourceful professional, with an exceptional background working in the ever changing, fast-paced events industry. Prior to joining IAB, Renee has worked at Dow Jones and Black Enterprise as their Sponsorship Manager. She comes with a plethora of experience handling best in class brand management for assigned accounts that brings cross platform media campaigns & national event partnerships to life.

In her spare time Renee likes to travel with her two daughters and manage her online children’s boutique.

Renee received her Associates Degree from Long Island University C.W. Post and a Bachelor of Science from SUNY Empire College.

Dan is the CTO of Extreme Reach. He leads innovation and development with a customer-centric revision cycle, growing our industry-leading platform with new capabilities every two weeks. With over 15 years of experience in systems architecture, application design and development of leadership, Dan is known for developing transformative advertising technology solutions.

Conor Brady is a Global Creative Director at Huge, where he works closely with creative teams across the agency’s offices in the United States, Europe and Latin America. Conor plays a critical role in Huge’s work on integrated marketing campaigns and business development.

Before joining Huge, Conor served as Chief Creative Officer at Organic, where he was responsible for overseeing the creative discipline across all offices in the United States and Europe. He has worked with many of the world’s largest brands, including Pepsi, Intel, Hilton Hotel Group, VW, BBC, Bank of America, P&G, Nike and Conde Nast.

Conor studied at the Royal College of Art and Middlesex University and holds a BA in graphic design. Conor is an avid cyclist and lives in Brooklyn with his wife. In his spare time, he runs Elcyclista, a journal for bike design and culture.

Brad has led Durham, North Carolina-based McKinney since 2002.

Since his arrival, McKinney has more than doubled in size by building one of the most innovative business models in the advertising industry, one that blurs the line between traditional and digital media. As a result, McKinney has been recognized as one of the best agencies in the country by Advertising Age. In 2008, Brad led a management buyback of the agency from French holding company Havas.

He is also on the board of the American Association of Advertising Agencies (4A’s) and founding chair of the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s (IAB’s) Agency Advisory Board.

An anthropology major at Dartmouth, where he rowed on the varsity crew and was editor-in-chief of the humor magazine, Brad also earned a finance MBA from Columbia. Before joining McKinney, he spent two decades at global advertising giant Leo Burnett in Chicago, rising from trainee to CEO of Leo Burnett USA.

David Campanelli is a 19 year industry veteran and a homegrown Horizon talent. As Executive Vice President, Director of Video Investment, David is in charge of all Horizon’s national TV and premium digital video buying. David oversees such accounts as GEICO, Dish, Weight Watchers Burger King, Corona, LG, Little Caesars, Capital One and others. Over the past several years Horizon has seen its billings in the National arena skyrocket to now exceed $4.3B under David’s supervision.

David has spearheaded Horizon’s “video buying” approach, helping to break down the walls between traditional TV buying and digital video buying, resulting in innovative deals on behalf of his clients. Also, he has established and oversees Horizon’s sports buying unit, which has become one of the largest sports spenders in the industry, have placed major sports platforms such as the Capital One Orange Bowl.

More recently David has set his sights on the advanced TV marketplace, creating Horizon Advanced, a dedicated team to lead Horizon’s path forward in the emerging world of data informed, programmatic and Over The Top TV.

David has already garnered some of the industry’s top honors, including winning a CableFax “Sweet 16” award and the Mediaweek All-Star Award in the National TV category.

Jianna is a digital native – creating graphics, editing videos, and growing social media pages since 2010. Formerly an engineering student, she has supported and developed brands and businesses on campus, through internships, and as a freelance consultant. Jianna received her Associates from the County College of Morris and is a proud alumna of Rutgers Business School where she received a Bachelor of Science in Marketing.

As President and CEO of Index Exchange, Andrew leads 300 of the brightest minds in advertising technology across the U.S., Canada and Europe. With a sharp focus on delivering benefits to media companies like The New York Times, Hearst, Daily Mail and Conde Nast as they tackle the world of automation, he’s built Index Exchange as one of the only pure-play and transparent ad exchanges in the advertising ecosystem. While he’s responsible for providing strategic direction and market vision to the company at large, he’s also hands on with all day-to-day corporate operations.

Andrew has a unique penchant for the advertising industry and the promise of its automated future. At only age 15, he was a strategic advisor for his family company, Casale Media – one of the first ad tech startups built to help marketers manage online ad inventory. 15 years later, he’s pivoted his family’s company Casale Media into Index Exchange. By doubling down on investments in engineering and infrastructure, he’s continued to grow the company’s revenue by over 100% y/y and adding headcount when needed to bolster the company’s offering.

As a respected industry thought leader, Andrew is widely sought-after for his expertise and opinions on programmatic and exchange-traded media, and the growing need to transact with transparency at the forefront of the conversation. Andrew’s bylines and media contributions have appeared in numerous publications including Ad Age, Adweek, AdExchanger, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.

Karen leads Acxiom’s data product division with responsibility for data product strategy and the expansion of Acxiom’s data capabilities in the US and across global markets. Karen’s expertise lies in the design, development, and implementation of customer targeting and engagement strategies. Karen has deep experience across all aspects of the data ecosystem and is an expert on the nuances and complexities of the global data landscape with significant on-the-ground experience across EMEA, Latin America, Asia Pacific, and North America.

Before joining Acxiom Karen was Vice President of Global Data Solutions at Merkle where she focused on expanding Merkle’s data solutions into new global markets as well as working with clients to expand their CRM strategies across geographies. Prior to that, she held multiple roles in Europe and the Americas with ICLP – the global loyalty agency

Joe has 25 years of experience in both digital and physical product development leadership. He currently leads content and search advertising, as well as homepage experiences, for Microsoft News. His teams have driven a host of novel technical and product innovations in the area of native advertising, including implementation of new server-side delivery mechanisms that improve user experience, fraud rates, breakage, and yield. Joe’s passion with respect to advertising is ensuring that digital advertising is used as a force for good, allowing consumers access to trusted and valuable experiences that they would not otherwise be able to afford, or be willing to pay for. His current professional focus areas include developing industry-wide solutions that allow users to safely and proactively share information with publishers and advertisers, as well as innovating on business models in ways that help content publishers achieve sustainable economics.

Tal Chalozin is Co-Founder & CTO of Innovid, the industry leader in interactive video advertising. As CTO of Innovid, Mr. Chalozin is responsible for technology development and implementation, product creation and business development activities across the company.

Mr. Chalozin is a multi-disciplinary entrepreneur, in early 2006 he co-founded the GarageGeeks (www.garageGeeks.org), a non for profit organization for creative people to meet, innovate and build noncommercial projects that would otherwise not come to life. GarageGeeks has grown to be one of Israel’s biggest “underground” organizations and its community consists of more than 1,000 active members. Prior to the GarageGeeks, Chalozin served as an officer in an elite computer unit in the Israeli Air Force for eight years, where he led the development of several military products with high algorithmic complexity.

Pete Chelala is Viacom’s Vice President of Mobile and Video Partner Solutions where he focuses on driving strategy and development of mobile and video ad sales products across Viacom Media Networks’ Music, Entertainment, Kids and Family brands. He joined Viacom from The Weather Channel where he worked for the four years building and selling marketing solutions across the its mobile platform. Prior to The Weather Channel, Mr. Chelala spent three years in the online ad sales at both About.com and Yahoo!. Before moving into ad sales, he worked in production on commercials, music videos and feature films out of Los Angeles.

Debi Chirichella is president of Hearst Magazines, one of the world’s largest publishers of monthly magazines, with 25 U.S. titles and close to 300 international editions, after serving as executive vice president, chief financial officer and director of global operations for Hearst Magazines.

She joined Hearst Magazines as senior vice president and chief financial officer in November 2011, overseeing the company’s strategic financial planning and reporting. Previously, Chirichella spent seven years at Condé Nast, where she served in a number of executive positions. From 2008 until early 2011, she was chief operating officer of Condé Nast Digital; simultaneously, beginning in 2010, she was COO of the Fairchild Fashion Group. Before that, she was chief financial officer of Condé Nast Publications.

Earlier in her career, Chirichella held several high-level planning, finance and operations roles at Primedia, and most recently, she served as CFO/COO at Prometheus Global Media.

Chirichella is a graduate of Princeton University and received her master’s degree in business from Harvard University. She currently resides in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, with her husband and three children.

Very few have had a run like Brent Choi over the past decade. Prior to being tapped to lead both J. Walter Thompson New York and Canada in 2015, Brent helped to transform the company’s Canadian operation, winning new business and leading the agency to be named Strategy’s 2015 Silver Agency of the Year. In fact, since 2000, Brent has helped two different agencies to become Agency of the Year in Canada.

Now, Brent drives industry-leading creative work for clients like Johnson & Johnson, Puma, Kellogg’s Special K, Tim Hortons, Air Canada, and more.

In 2013, Brent was the #2 ranked Chief Creative Officer in the world for his digital work, and consistently ranked as one of Canada’s top 10 creative directors. In the past few years, he has received several Cannes Lions (including two golds), multiple CLIOs and D&AD pencils, AdAge’s Top Five Ads of the Year, and was one of only 11 worldwide winners of the inaugural Fast Company Innovation Award. His work has also been featured numerous times in Mashable, Wired, Forbes, CNN, and Fast Company.

Some would say his creative success is because he started with a business degree from Ivey, one of Canada’s top business schools. Others will argue it’s in spite of it. At home he is a proud dad, insane NFL fan, and loving husband. His wife would add “In that order.”

As Senior Vice President of Addressability and Ecosystem at LiveRamp, Travis is responsible for leading the company’s global digital advertising ecosystem strategy: leading strategic initiatives, advancing global partnerships, and overseeing the business development and go-to-market strategies for key addressability products and initiatives. The Authenticated Traffic Solution is one such product, enabling publishers to link their first party identity to IdentityLink and then connect to the IdentityLink infrastructure LiveRamp has built across partner platforms to enable marketers to buy and measure on IdentityLink. Travis is a co-founder and Board Member of the Advertising ID Consortium, advocating for people-based identifiers to be transacted across the open Internet. Prior to joining LiveRamp, Travis was a director at Epic Systems responsible for implementing systems that managed sensitive healthcare information. Travis holds a BA in Political Science from Rollins College.

Paul holds a BSE, EECS from Princeton University, an MS in Computer Science from John Hopkins University and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

As VP, Enterprise Brand, Advertising and Media, at Voya Financial, Jim leads brand strategy, creative development and media planning. Jim’s current focus is building the Voya Financial brand introduced in the fall of 2014. His responsibilities include ensuring Voya’s brand is effectively expressed across television, digital, mobile, social and search platforms for consumer and business audiences. He has a passion for developing high impact integrated initiatives with partners, building messaging across touch points, and driving a measurement based culture.

Prior to joining Voya Financial, Jim led agency and client teams developing and executing brand strategy, creative, and media for companies in financial, real estate, healthcare, and retail industries. He has MBA and BA degrees from Duke University and resides in Atlanta.

Every agency says it wants “to do great creative,” but for Chief Creative Officer Susan Credle, it’s the reason why that matters. “Great creative has to build helpful, meaningful brands for the long-term,” she says. “That’s the sum of what we at Leo Burnett do, and what I’ve set out to do my entire career.”

She came to Leo Burnett in the fall of 2009, after more than two decades at BBDO in which she rose from “bathroom-break girl” for the agency’s receptionists to EVP Executive Creative Director. There, Susan reinvented the iconic M&M’s characters; turned Cingular Wireless from a start-up into a leader brand; and created other consistently award-winning work for such clients as Bank of America, FedEx, Gillette, Lowe’s, PepsiCo, Pizza Hut and Visa.

Since joining Leo Burnett, Susan has spearheaded a creative renaissance at the agency through an eye for new top talent, a commitment to work that benefits brands and the world, and a vision for clients that always looks beyond a single campaign or ad.

Susan’s leadership, inspiration and in-the-trenches contributions have led to legacy-respecting yet forward-looking campaigns like McDonald’s Happy Meal “Happy Tales,” Kellogg’s Special K “What Will You Gain When You Lose?” Secret’s “Mean Stinks” anti-bullying campaign and, one of the most beloved and awarded platform ideas, Allstate’s “Mayhem.”

“I believe in purpose-driven brands and having pride in something in lasts,” she says. “And, as we say here at Leo, that creativity can transform human behavior.”

Susan serves on the Boards of the University of North Carolina’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, the American Association of Advertising Agencies, the Foundation for EXXcellence and the Creative Circus. She is a member of the Economic Club of Chicago, the Media Council at the Paley Center for Media in New York, the Creative Review Board of the Ad Council and is a supporter of Marwen and One Million Degrees in Chicago.

Karan heads supply operations for Media.net and manages some of Media.net’s key publisher partnerships working out of the New York office. As one of the first employees, he has been instrumental in Media.net’s rise in the adtech ecosystem. His role over the last 10+ years has been focused on building and managing partnerships across the ad-tech landscape, nurturing strategic alliances and helping drive product strategy.

Prior to Media.net, Karan was an attorney in the Technology & Media practice of one of India’s premier law firms. He is deeply passionate about how access to quality education can help alleviate global poverty and spent over a year living and teaching in a remote village in India to improve the educational infrastructure for teachers and students.

Karan holds a BS in Computer Science and Mathematics from University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign and a Bachelor of Laws degree from Mumbai University.

David Danziger is the Vice President of Enterprise Partnerships at The Trade Desk, a global demand-side platform in the $5B real-time bidding industry. In his role at The Trade Desk, David leads the company's strategic partnerships for data, targeting, and measurement. His emphasis is creating relationships that increase effectiveness of The Trade Desk clients’ media buys through improved front-end targeting or back-end analytics.

David is an adtech and data industry veteran having previously served as senior director of data solutions at Merkle and director of data products at Acxiom.

David is a graduate of The University of Michigan and The University of Texas.

Mainardo de Nardis has been CEO of OMD Worldwide since 2009.

OMD Worldwide is a leading global media communications agency, recognized for its global footprint, strategic integration and creative innovation. It has been acknowledged as Most Creative Media Agency by The Gunn Report for nine consecutive years; Adweek Global Media Agency of the Year for 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2014; and the 2002, 2005, 2009 and 2011 Media Agency of the Year by Advertising Age.

Prior to joining OMD he was CEO of both Aegis Media and Mediaedge:cia Worldwide. He was a co-founder of one of Italy’s “third wave” ad agencies before moving from advertising to media communications to start Medianetwork, Italy’s first media independent.

Mainardo presided over the Cannes Festival’s Media Lions Jury in 2012 and sits on the Boards of Omnicom Media Group and the Ad Council. He resides in NY and London with his family.

Miranda Dimopoulos is the Regional CEO of the IAB SEA+India, a not-for-profit association that elevates the digital industry locally, regionally and globally.

Under her leadership, the membership has grown more than twelvefold in the last five years. An economist and expert on Asia, Miranda is a sought-after public speaker and commentator internationally on the insights and opportunities to grow investment in this diverse region. She has served as a Singapore Government Board Member for Critical Infocomm Technology since 2016, is an official advisor to the Indonesia, Thailand and India Governments and launched the 2018 partnership with the Economic Development Board (EDB) and Workforce Singapore (WSG) for a 2 year programme developing Programmatic talent.

Miranda was one of Campaign APAC’s 40 under 40 2016, CMO Asia and World Brand Congress Top 50 Leaders in Asia 2016, Campaign APAC Women to Watch (Agents of Change) 2016, the only person from APAC on the The Drum New Years Global Honours List 2017, World Women’s Congress Super Influencer 2017 (Top 10 Global Leaders) and Business Top Leader APAC 2018.

Michael Dorf serves as Vice President of Revenue Operations at Univision Communications Inc. Michael oversees all of Yield Management, Ad Operations, Programmatic and Advertising Solutions.

Previously, Michael lead the Media Operations team at Freewheel, a Comcast Company and was able to bridge the gaps between Linear, Digital and Programmatic advertising. Prior to that he was at Conde Nast where he led the Ad Operations across Video, Programmatic, Display and Native. He started his career running Revenue Operations for Blip Networks which was eventually acquired by Disney via Maker Studios.

Gil Elbaz is the Founder and CEO of Factual, a data company that enables developers, publishers and advertisers to build highly relevant mobile experiences using the context of location. Prior to Factual, Gil co-founded Applied Semantics Inc. (ASI), which developed contextual advertising products, including ASI’s AdSense. Google acquired ASI in 2003, where Gil stayed on as the director of engineering, continuing to work on AdSense and other products. In 2008, Gil founded The Common Crawl Foundation, a non-profit with the goal of democratizing access to web information to enable greater innovation in research, business and education. He continues to serve on the board there as well as on the board of the X Prize Foundation. Gil is an active angel investor. He recently co-founded TenOneTen ventures with David Waxman, and his notable investments include Climate Corporation (acquired by Monsanto for $1.2 billion), GoodReads (acquired by Amazon), Scopely, and Kaggle. Gil earned a B.S. with a double major in Engineering & Applied Science and Economics from the California Institute of Technology.

Tom works across Saatchi & Saatchi’s worldwide digital capability and is based in NYC and spends 50% of his time in China as Greater China Chief Digital Officer. He has both a worldwide focus across integrated creative, strategy and operations, adding talent, new capabilities and forging worldwide partnerships with creative partners and platforms. In 2014, Tom added Digital Executive Creative Director to the Asia Pacific/China region to his creative and strategic duties. Tom is a highly awarded digital and mobile creative director, with 69 Cannes Lions across multiple categories and 100s of international awards. Following his Presidency of the Cyber Lions, Tom was the first President of the Mobile Lions in 2012. The Creative Data jury at Cannes 2015 is Tom’s fifth Cannes jury, having served on the 2002 Cyber and 2006 Titanium juries. He is a member of Saatchi & Saatchi’s Worldwide Creative Board and works on the development of the annual New Director’s Showcase at Cannes Lions. Tom’s creative work is part of the permanent design collections of Museum of Modern Art in NYC and the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC. Naturally Tom’s work has become all things social and mobile. He champions the necessity, tactics, and possibilities of mobile advertising and marketing in his recently published book “Mobile Magic”, where he takes readers step-by-step through his process for creating truly mobile ideas. Tom lives with his partner Gregory and their Lakeland Terrier Berkeley Jackson in the Financial District of Manhattan.

Townsend Feehan is CEO of IAB Europe. Prior to joining IAB Europe, Townsend worked for Microsoft Legal & Corporate Affairs in Brussels and ran EU industry associations in the ICT, consumer electronics and biotechnology sectors. Townsend has an M. Phil. in European policy from the law faculty of the University of Edinburgh.

Konrad Feldman, CEO, co-founded and launched Quantcast in 2006 along with Paul Sutter to transform the effectiveness of online advertising through the use of science and scalable computing. Prior to co-founding Quantcast, Feldman co-founded Searchspace (now Fortent) the leading provider of terrorist financing detection and anti-money laundering software for the world’s financial services industry. As CEO of Searchspace’s North American business, he established the business in the US and directed its rapid growth to become a market leader. Prior to Searchspace, Feldman was a Research Fellow in the Intelligent Systems Laboratory at University College London. Feldman holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from University College, London.

Jenny is an experienced project manager with a passion for strategic planning and operational excellence. She has years of hospitality and agency experience, including OMD and Spark Foundry. Her most recent role was held at Maven Communications, a pharmaceutical media agency. She’s a City College of NY graduate who grew up in Washington Heights and now resides in NJ. During her free time, Jenny enjoys staying active and spending time with loved ones.

Kirsten is the Managing Director of BBDO New York.

In addition to her agency responsibilities, Kirsten oversees the Mars business (which includes more than a dozen of the company’s major chocolate, pet and food brands), FedEx, ExxonMobil and the agency’s public service efforts in support of Autism Speaks. 

Since joining BBDO in 2006, Kirsten has been named a “Woman to Watch” as well as one of the “100 Most Influential Women in Advertising” by Ad Age.


Outside of her day-to-day responsibilities, Kirsten serves on the board of Somerset Hills Learning Institute, one of the premier institutions for children with Autism, is a member of Advertising Women of New York and BBDO’s Women Leadership Council, a group dedicated to helping women succeed in the workplace.

 Kirsten is a 1989 graduate of the University of Florida. She currently resides in Brooklyn with her husband and their two children.

Kurt Fulepp is the Global Chief Product Officer of AccuWeather. In this key leadership role, Kurt is responsible for the vision, strategy and design for the enterprise-wide product portfolio, as well as brand design, creative services, audience & analytics, business intelligence and mobile app development.

As CPO, Kurt is charged with every element of the AccuWeather product roadmap, from conceptualization to launch and post-launch performance. Drawing on his extensive experience working at the intersection of cutting-edge digital products and premium content, he leads the development of the latest ecosystems of products, leveraging artificial intelligence, big data, and connected and smart devices. His expertise in multiplatform storytelling, product management, content commercialization, and cross-platform brand development shapes how AccuWeather delivers weather information to consumers and enterprises around the world.


Before joining AccuWeather, Kurt served as Vice President and Digital General Manager of News and Business at Time, Inc leading the digital brands of TIME, Money & Fortune. Previously, he was Vice President and Head of Product at AOL, Inc., where he oversaw product management, technology and design of AOL’s core business of AOL.com, as well as a portfolio of lifestyle brands focused on home, food, style, weddings and women’s leadership. Concurrent with his AOL tenure, Kurt also served as General Manager of MAKERS.com, providing end-to-end leadership for this first-of-its-kind multiplatform video destination, which profiled exceptional women and their groundbreaking achievements.


Earlier in his career, Kurt served as Senior Manager, Consumer Marketing for NineMSN (Microsoft’s joint-venture in Australia) covering Bing, MSN and Windows Live (incl. Hotmail, SkyDrive & WebApps), as well as Director of Marketing at Nine Television Network Australia; one of Australia’s largest commercial television networks.


Kurt is also as an adjunct professor in the Master of Science in Publishing – Digital Media program at New York University, teaching a course that examines the various business models in digital media and what it takes to build a successful digital publishing business.


He resides in New York City and based at AccuWeather’s New York office at 7 World Trade Center.

Jackie has extensive accounting experience in the non-profit sector working alongside the Archdiocese of NY working in customer support, accounts receivable, cash receipts, and treasury functions. Jackie is thrilled about starting her new role at IAB.

Erik leads the Facebook US & Canada Agency teams based in New York and is part of NA Sales Team. His team’s mission is to advance the value that agencies bring their partners through the “relentless pursuit of progress”! Additionally, Erik is the executive sponsor for the Facebook Reserve video solutions that feature In-Stream videos in Watch. He previously led the Technology and Telecommunication team at Facebook for over four years. Prior to Facebook, Erik has founded several companies under the common theme of “changing the way brands advertise”. In 1994, he was a founding partner at Student Advantage, a college marketing company that is credited with establishing the benefits of Youth and Student marketing. In 2005, as a partner and Chief Strategy Officer at Noise, his digital agency produced the first ever marketing campaign on Facebook for Chase credit card services. Erik lives in Brooklyn with his wife Rachel, daughter Ryan (12) and son Logan (11) and enjoys cooking, golf and snowboarding.

As Chief Innovation Officer, Quentin George is responsible for the overall growth, development and implementation of Mediabrands’ intelligence capabilities including its incubation practice and the physical and virtual Media Labs. Quentin serves as the key driver of all group activities that address not only the complexities of the digital arena for Mediabrands’ clients, but also educates and informs our clients on the hidden opportunities within the space. Internally, he will continue to transform the Mediabrands culture, creating a toolkit of resources that connects the network with a complete catalog of Mediabrands’ services and platform capabilities, partner solutions and case studies. In addition, Quentin will identify and introduce Mediabrands and IPG leadership to potential technology and content partners that are ideally suited to enable our network and clients to grow.

One of the most tenured leaders in the digital arena, Quentin was appointed Chief Digital Officer, Mediabrands in 2009. He joined the IPG Network in 2007 and was named Global Lead, Digital Media and Strategic Innovation for Universal McCann. Prior to his role at UM, he served as Chief of Corporate Development and Managing Director for Organic, Inc., where he grew the business substantially since joining in October 2004. During his tenure at Organic, he led assignments for clients such as Sprint, 20th Century Fox, Mitsubishi Motors and GeekSquad.

Quentin was SVP of Client Services at Avenue A/Razorfish, where he co-managed the San Francisco and Los Angeles offices and was responsible for driving online-based initiatives for clients such as Sun Microsystems, Oracle, Disney, Cisco Systems and Genentech. Back in 1994, he cofounded Electric Ocean, an internationally renowned interactive marketing agency based in Cape Town, South Africa, where he won one of the first Clios ever awarded for digital work. He’s also a founding member and former cochairman of the Digital Interactive Media Association (DIMA).

Quentin resides and makes wine in San Francisco with his wife and children.

Adam Gerber is Global President, Media, for Essence, a data-driven global agency that is part of WPP’s GroupM. In this role, he oversees media capabilities across all channels. This includes driving the agency’s planning, investment, activation and ad operations disciplines and their intersection with GroupM. Gerber’s priority is to build and scale innovative, cross-channel investment models rooted in data and outcome-based metrics that are tied to clients’ business success. He stepped into this role in 2018 after serving as Essence’s SVP, Investment, North America.

Gerber joined Essence in 2017 after spending six years at ABC/Disney where he departed as SVP, Client Development & Communications. Before ABC, he served as Chief Marketing Officer of Quantcast, where he was and an active industry evangelist for the digitally-oriented audience measurement and targeting company.

Prior to Quantcast, he served as VP, Advertising Product & Strategy, for Boston-based Brightcove, Inc. Previously, he was SVP, Director of Innovation & Strategy for Mediavest Worldwide, and Senior Partner/Director, Media Strategy for The Digital Edge (now Wavemaker).

In earlier roles, Gerber served as VP, Associate Media Director at Ammirati Puris Lintas; Account Manager/Interactive Marketing for America Online and Media Supervisor/Media Planner for both JWT and D’Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles. He began his career as a paralegal at Sidley & Austin in Washington, DC.

Evan Giamanco is senior vice president of sales strategy and operations at CNN Digital. In this role, Giamanco is responsible for the development and execution of CNN Digital’s advertising strategy and ad product development efforts. Based in New York, he reports to Christine Cook, senior vice president & chief revenue officer of CNN Digital.

Giamanco plays a key role in creating a holistic sales approach across CNN’s digital business, which includes premium verticals, mobile products, programmatic, emerging businesses and Great Big Story, while also strategizing digital revenue and product development opportunities that are in line with the company’s go-to-market strategies.

Before taking on his current role, Giamanco served as vice president of news content partnerships at Turner Ignite, where he developed innovative advertising solutions and powerful branded content campaigns across the company’s news brands.

Giamanco was previously vice president of business operations at SimpleReach, a company that specializes in providing content creators with measurement and optimization capabilities across digital and social channels. There, he built an operations team from the ground up, while leading campaign management and marketing across the company. Prior to SimpleReach, Giamanco was vice president of Business Insider Studios & ad strategy at Business Insider, and spent over nine years of his career at People.com, where he established his digital background.

Giamanco has a Bachelor of Business Administration in marketing and e-commerce from Fordham University, as well as a Master of Business Administration in marketing and e-commerce from St. John’s University.

WarnerMedia is a leading media and entertainment company that creates and distributes premium and popular content from a diverse array of talented storytellers and journalists to global audiences through its consumer brands including: HBO, HBO Now, HBO Max, Warner Bros., TNT, TBS, truTV, CNN, DC Entertainment, New Line, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Turner Classic Movies and others.

Warner Media is part of AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T).

Ethan Gibel is a dynamic and driven marketing professional with a passion for change and innovation. Born and raised in Harlem, New York, Ethan’s entrepreneurial spirit was ignited at a young age. Fueled by his desire to make a difference, he pursued a degree in Communications from St. Lawrence University. With a keen eye for emerging trends and a deep understanding of consumer behavior, he aims to establish himself as a visionary marketer in present and future industries.

Alanna is Head of Advertising Technology at ConsenSys, a blockchain company focused on the adoption of decentralized networks and economies. She is also the CEO of the Digital Asset Trade Association (DATA), an advocacy group formed in Davos in 2018 for Distributed Ledger Technology. DATA helps to shape public policy issues to support the growth of digital assets, digital identity, smart-contracts and digital currencies and worked extensively in Wyoming and Colorado on blockchain and cryptocurrency legislation. Prior to DATA, Alanna was Global CRO at MetaX where she oversaw product creation, strategy, and go-to-market including the adChain and adToken dApps on Ethereum and the first Token Curated Registry on the Ethereum Mainnet. Before she entered the blockchain sphere, Alanna ran global advertising standards General Manager of the IAB Tech Lab. Alanna had senior roles at Accuen/Omnicom Media Group, Condé Nast and at Admeld (acquired by Google) where she helped grow Real Time Bidding from an idea into an advertising industry mainstay.

Jae Goodman is Chief Creative Officer and Co-Head of CAA Marketing, a division of leading entertainment and sports agency Creative Artists Agency (CAA). Goodman works in the Los Angeles office and helps provide corporate clients with creative solutions that leverage the power of entertainment to build brands and drive business results. CAA Marketing clients include Coca-Cola, General Motors, Diageo, Chipotle, Samsung, Neiman Marcus, Burberry, Keurig, Fender and The MacArthur Foundation, among others.

CAA Marketing was the driving force behind Hasbro’s Transformers film franchise and Chipotle’s “Cultivate” campaign, including the animated short film “Back to the Start” featuring Willie Nelson covering Coldplay and its follow-up “The Scarecrow.” The campaign has won four Cannes Grand Prix awards in four different categories in the past three years.

CAA Marketing is responsible for the first and second brand films ever accepted to the Sundance Film Festival, the first-ever live interactive show on Hulu, nine Webby Awards in six years for four different clients, and eight Emmy nominations and four wins for such clients as Old Navy, Chipotle, and Dolby.

Prior to CAA, Goodman served as Senior Vice President and Executive Creative Director at Publicis & Hal Riney in San Francisco, overseeing all creative talent and work. Previously, he held creative and executive positions at Wieden+Kennedy, Leagas~Delaney, and Ogilvy & Mather.

Under Goodman’s leadership, CAA Marketing’s work has been selected as one of TED’s “10 Ads Worth Spreading,” and in 2014, Goodman was named to both Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business 1000 and Ad Age’s Creativity 50 List.

Ms. Gorcey overseas product and advertising sales strategy for Condé Nast, where she focuses on turning the company’s unique assets – including data, video, programmatic, and experiential offerings – into buyable solutions that drive results for clients. Eden has held leadership roles in both agency and publisher settings, where her work leading media strategy for brands including P&G, Microsoft and Coca Cola has contributed to her status as an industry-recognized innovator.

Brian Gottesman leads monetization product development at Flipboard — the worlds largest curated content platform, with over 140 million users. In this role he oversees all monetization products from strategy to planning and execution. Prior to his time at Flipboard Brian ran product management for Amazon’s Video DSP, driving revenue growth, verification vendor business development, and feature expansion including pre-bid, performance optimization and OTT targeting. Before Amazon Brian was VP of Product at Critical Media where he designed, launched and managed Syndicaster, the first cloud-based video editing and distribution system for TV stations. He began his career at Harvard University, building web platforms for a range of departments and institutes including the Life Sciences Division, the Center for Brain Science and the Nieman Foundation.

Ben is a graduate of Temple University’s journalism program and has worked in both the publishing industry and higher education as a Digital Producer/Instructional Designer. He specializes in synthesizing complicated information to create approachable and dynamic e-learning content. Ben grew up on a dairy farm in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and now resides in Union City, New Jersey, with his wife and dog. In his free time, Ben spends his time playing basketball, hiking, cooking, and agonizing over Philadelphia sports.

Meredith Guiness is a seasoned insights professional, with nearly 10 years of experience across research, analytics, and digital planning. For the last 3.5 years, she’s been an integral member of the IAB Research & Insights team, providing research-based thought leadership to IAB’s client base of over 700 companies and the wider the digital advertising and marketing ecosystem. Meredith is passionate about data-driven storytelling, bringing to life the meaning (the “why”) behind marketplace trends and the evolving digital media, data, e-commerce, and consumer ecosystems.

Prior to IAB, she spent the majority of her career agency-side at MediaCom, holding positions across digital planning and analytics, and serving clients across a vast range of industries including pharmaceutical, professional/career services, gaming, travel, and non-profit organization management. While at MediaCom, Meredith was responsible for analyzing and consulting clients on digital ad performance/measurement, developing cross-channel measurement plans, and establishing best practices on cross-functional collaboration, among other functions. Meredith holds bachelor’s degrees in Psychology and Italian Studies from Emory University.

Jay Habegger is the co-founder and CEO of ownerIQ. Jay is a pioneer in digital media and advertising having over 20 years experience. He has built The Q from it’s humble beginnings to leading the industry in second party data and as the leading programmatic solution for digital advertisers, retailers and brands. Previously, Jay was the CEO and president of Bitpipe, leading the company through to its sale to TechTarget in 2004 in a $40 million transaction Jay has been a guest speaker at events attended by C-level marketing executives discussing the evolution of digital shopper marketing, retailer monetization, and programmatic advertising. He has also written several bylines for prominent advertising and retail publications such as Ad Age, Internet Retailer, Dealerscope, and TWICE Magazine. In addition, Habegger was acknowledged in The Rayno Report’s 2014 list of Top 11 ad tech visionaries. ownerIQ has been named one of the 50 Fastest Growing Private Companies in Massachusetts by the Boston Business Journal in 2017, as a MITX Award Finalist, in Ad Age’s 2015 B2B Best Awards, Digiday Signal Awards 2015, CIO Review’s 2015 Top 20 Most Promising Retail Technologies and as a Hot Tech to Watch in 2014.

Jeff Hagen is the Group Director of Connections Planning & Investment for The Coca-Cola Company’s USA division. In this role he is responsible for helping build Coca-Cola’s integrated marketing strategy; focusing on building a Brand’s ability to connect with consumers using media, data and technology, and owned touchpoints across a consumer’s daily journey. With 15+ years of experience, Jeff has led both planning & investment teams at Cingular/AT&T Wireless, The Home Depot, and Arby’s. He has also worked at world renowned advertising agencies including BBDO, Initiative and OMD leading media strategy and investment across automotive, consumer packaged goods, financial services and entertainment industry accounts.

Most recently, under his leadership, the Coca-Cola Connections team has been recognized for industry leading work in integrated marketing across video, social, search, outdoor and radio and has received various awards from Effie’s, Media Post, and the Festival of Media.

Jeff lives in Sandy Springs, Georgia with his wife, Leslie, and two daughters. Jeff is an active member of his children’s school, church community and youth sports association.

Rachael Haley, the Regional Marketing Director for the Americas at Airbnb, she oversees strategy and execution of all regional integrated marketing initiatives across all Airbnb businesses. She leads a team responsible for marketing content development, social media strategy and execution, and connections and media activation.

With more than 13 years in the industry, Rachael leans on her deep expertise in media and marketing strategy, including communication planning, strategic partnership development, buy negotiation, plan execution, and measurement, to build innovative marketing campaigns that disrupt the category while driving business results. Prior to Airbnb, Rachael worked in media planning and buying at a number of agencies including OMD before moving into a marketing strategy role at Netflix where she led US launch campaigns for a number of Netflix Originals including House of Cards and Orange is the New Black

Matthew Harrington oversees Edelman’s four regions as well as Edelman Berland, the firm’s research arm; human resources; legal; information technology; and conflict management. A 21-year Edelman veteran, Matthew is a specialist in corporate positioning and reputation management. His expertise includes crisis communications, merger and acquisition activity and initial public offerings. Currently, Matthew provides corporate and/or issues management counsel to a range of clients, including, GE, Charles Schwab & Company, Samsung and Starbucks. Matthew is a graduate of Denison University, where he also serves on the Board of Trustees. He is a member of the Public Relations Society of America and is also a board member of the World Food Program USA, the Council of Public Relations Firms and the Classic Stage Company.

Eric Harris is the President & Chief Operating Officer at Cheddar, the leading post-cable network currently broadcasting Cheddar, a business news network, and Cheddar Big News, a fast-paced, young, non-partisan general news and headline news network. Before Cheddar, Eric was Chief Operating Officer at KnowMe, an innovative video and sharing platform.

Prior to that, Eric was BuzzFeed’s Chief Business Operations Officer and was responsible for all business operations and a global team of over 100 rockstars that spanned sales strategy & planning, marketing, research, events, ad product, account management, ad operations, social discovery, client analytics, and project management. Eric started at BuzzFeed as the 6th employee and left the company of over 1,000 employees 7 years later.

Eric has also worked as VP of Product Management at Operative Media, where he helped to build their best of breed Advertising Management platform, and as Director of Operations at Washingtonpost.com after spending several years doing consulting work at Price Waterhouse.

Eric has an MBA from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University and lives with his wife, two children, and labradoodle in Brooklyn.

Todd Henry is a Senior Product Manager with the IAB Tech Lab. He has 15 years of experience in the digital publishing industry working for Weather Underground, The Weather Company, and IBM. With a background in engineering and product management, Todd’s previous companies include Intuit, Brøderbund Software, and Mattel.

Born and raised in New York, Jesse Horwitz has always had a strong grasp of economics and finance. He studied both fields at Columbia University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa/Magna Cum Laude. During his time at Columbia, he also developed an interest in Film Studies, although following an internship with Sony Picture’s Television Division, he quickly learned that a life in Hollywood was not for him.

Horwitz ultimately decided to take a different path, and spent a year at Harvard Law School, where he met his husband, Mark Severs and secured an internship with Bridgewater Associates. It was at Bridgewater that Jesse met his future business partner, Benjamin Cogan. Horwitz moved on from Harvard to work full time for Bridgewater and then founded Gadfly, a systematic trading firm with Michael Naber, a colleague from Bridgewater.

Horwitz joined the investment team for Columbia University’s endowment in 2013, where he spent the last few years investing across the alternatives landscape – private equity, venture capital, hedge funds and real estate. During his time at Columbia, he built a strong network across the investor community, including Two River, a life sciences merchant bank that invested in and brought together the round for Hubble.

Now Horwitz is Co-Founder and Co-CEO at Hubble, a direct-to-consumer, subscription contact lens company, where Horwitz focuses his efforts on fundraising, business development and regulation compliance. Since launching in November 2016, Hubble has become one of the fastest growing, direct-to-consumer e-commerce companies in the U.S. Horwitz and Cogan earned a spot on Forbes’ prestigious “30 Under 30” list in 2016 and Hubble recently extended its footprint into Canada, the UK and the Netherlands in the past year.

Travis Howe has joined ESPN as SVP, Platform Ad Sales Strategy & Global Operations. In this new role, Howe will be responsible for establishing the go-to-market strategy for ESPN’s digital advertising business moving forward to enhance the overall ESPN Platform. He will work closely with the sales marketing, product and technology teams and be based in the company’s New York office, reporting to Ed Erhardt, president, global sales & marketing.Said Erhardt, “Travis is an outstanding and creative executive who has the vision to identify, develop and execute our key priorities for the digital sales team. His expertise and thorough understanding of the evolving digital media marketplace will help enhance and drive the entirety of our portfolio.”

Howe joins ESPN from Mediaocean, where he served as the executive vice president and general manager of global platform solutions. Throughout his tenure, Howe led the company’s go-to-market, cross-platform strategy, sales and client services supporting digital, cross-media and television ad sales revenue and technology for global media, entertainment and publisher companies.

Prior to Mediaocean, Howe was senior vice president, head of digital ad sales for the Americas at Sony, where he oversaw Sony’s digital entertainment division across Sony Pictures Entertainment, Sony Pictures Television, Sony Music and PlayStation. His previous roles include consulting, operational strategy and change management at Accenture.

Howe currently serves as an executive member of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), as well as for The Paley Center. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the Lighthouse Guild and Chairman of the Music School Advisory Board. He graduated from the University of Colorado, Boulder with a double major in finance and international business.

Larry Hunt leads Video Investment for AT&T at Hearts and Science. Included in his responsibilities are AT&T’s Mobility, Directv and Business to Business Solutions brands in addition to Cricket Wireless.

Prior to joining the Hearts & Science, Larry was Senior Vice President, National Video Investment at Zenith. Over 14 years, Larry’s tenure focused on Verizon Wireless while working across a number of top brands including Sonic Restaurants, Hulu, Hallmark Channel, JP Morgan Chase, Darden Restaurants, and Ubisoft. Prior to Zenith Larry had spent years working at Initiative, True North and Y&R. At those agencies, Larry serviced brands such as Subaru, Jergens, American Airlines, Nortel Networks, US Army, Dr Pepper and Miller Beer.

Larry is a graduate of Baruch College and resides in Cranford, New Jersey with his wife Jennifer, daughter Isabelle and sons Owen and Harrison.

Stuart Ingis, Partner at Venable LLP, is nationally recognized as a leading attorney on privacy, marketing, advertising, eCommerce, and Internet law. He co-leads Venable’s privacy practice, which won the Chambers USA Award for Excellence for the top privacy practice and top advertising practice in the United States. He has also been repeatedly listed in the first tier of privacy attorneys in Chambers USA, Legal 500 and ComputerWorld magazine.

Mr. Ingis regularly represents companies in the media, communications, Internet, information services, advertising, and retail industries before the US Congress and the Federal Trade Commission as well as before other federal and state agencies. He defends companies in investigations by the FTC and State Consumer Protection Authorities. He regularly counsels clients on privacy and marketing issues and practices. He conducts internal assessments of company practices and products, and works with companies to design and implement compliance systems and best practices. He has represented CEOs in testimony before Congressional Committees.

Mr. Ingis brings coalitions together and leads self-regulatory efforts in the eCommerce, online, privacy, and data security space. He serves as general and policy counsel to the Direct Marketing Association, Washington advertising and privacy counsel to the Interactive Advertising Bureau, and general and policy counsel to the Digital Advertising Alliance.

Aimee Irwin serves as VP of Strategy and Partnerships at Experian Marketing Services. Aimee is a skilled strategy and corporate development executive with deep experience in digital marketing and advertising and track record of success in developing and building profitable new digital and mobile businesses at both early stage and public companies. Aimee led strategic partnerships and strategic initiatives for Nielsen’s Marketing Cloud where she negotiated and managed strategic data and identity management partnerships supporting Nielsen’s data targeting and marketing effectiveness businesses. Aimee also served as SVP of Strategy and Partnerships at Verve Mobile, a leading location-based mobile advertising platform. At Verve, Aimee developed and led Verve’s mobile application business and inventory partnerships with hundreds of media companies. Prior to Verve, Aimee was VP of Strategy and Corporate Development at AOL, where she was responsible for strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, and strategic partnerships for AOL’s advertising businesses. Previously, Aimee held executive positions at several successful internet and mobile companies including: Lightningcast, an Internet video advertising company now part of AOL, Leap Wireless, a large U.S. wireless carrier and Backwire, an internet and mobile marketing company acquired by Leap. Aimee started her career in consulting with KPMG and Bain and Company. Aimee has a BS from Georgetown University and an MBA from Kellogg.

Karyn Johnson, President, US Precision, spearheads programmatic strategy, capabilities and operations across Publicis Media brands. Karyn’s eye for innovation, paired with her depth of experience in the digital, media and ad tech spaces, helps her to lead Publicis Media fearlessly into the future programmatic world on behalf of its clients.

With over 15 years of industry experience, Karyn has led innovative campaigns on strategy, digital and ad tech development teams, continuously expanding her knowledge, qualifications and ambition. In her previous role at Blue 449 as EVP, Managing Director – Digital, Karyn was instrumental in developing strategic relationships with leading media, data and technology companies for the agency. She constantly challenged her clients to think differently, and led Blue 449 client T-Mobile to become one of the most digitally savvy brands in the market.

Andy Johnson joined ALC as Chief Data Officer with responsibility for ALC’s data strategy, acquisition and operations. During his 22-year career in the data-driven marketing industry, he has held a variety of marketing, strategic and senior leadership positions with several data services powerhouses. The skills and experience he brings to ALC include managing data strategy to enable data-driven products and advertising solutions that connect data to digital media, creating a unified organization to align all data-owner relationships across platforms, brands and global teams, managing systems process and tools to produce and optimize data assets, and overseeing multi-million-dollar budgets.

Before joining ALC, Andy was most recently SVP of data and audience solutions for Acxiom/LiveRamp. Prior to Acxiom, he spent 16 years at Experian Marketing services in data solutions, acquisition and management roles. He started his data career developing strategic online alliances at Infogroup.

He received his B.S. in business administration/finance from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. For ten years, he served in the Nebraska National Guard, receiving the Air Force Achievement Medal for distinguished service (three times). He serves on the board for IAB’s Data Center of Excellence and the Board of Advisors for Kammok. Andy is a frequently requested speaker on a broad range of topics at industry roundtables, events and universities.

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Day-to-day
Vincent leads the product vision and strategy for Rakuten Marketing, designing the company’s innovative roadmap to keep pace with the swiftly evolving industry. With a team of more than 200 specialists across the business, Vincent oversees Product Operations, Product Management, Product Marketing and Corporate Strategy. Underscoring everything he does is a commitment to making things happen and creating new avenues for growth for both Rakuten Marketing and its clients.

Career history
An entrepreneur at heart, Vincent has nearly 20 years of experience scaling software businesses through product innovation. Vincent joined Rakuten Marketing as CEO and Founder of Nextperf, the AI-based retargeting business that Rakuten Marketing acquired in 2016. He oversaw the integration of the company’s programmatic assets and laid the foundational platform its Display business is built on today. Prior to NextPerf, Vincent ran IT services and software companies and invested in start-ups across the entertainment, marketing/advertising and retail sectors.

Alma mater
MIT, Executive Certificate in Management and Leadership, AI, IoT, Strategy
Institute Superieur de Gestion, Master Degree in Business and Finance


Favorite quote
“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower” – Steve Jobs

Of personal note
Father of 3, Vincent has a huge passion for golf.

Anthony Katsur is an advertising technology veteran with more than two decades of executive leadership and operational experience at innovative technology companies.

As SVP of Platforms at Nexstar Digital, Anthony is responsible for leading the platform division across Mass², Kixer and Lakana, overseeing the suite of local and national digital marketing products, content monetization solutions and digital services that allow small and mid-sized media publishers and businesses to maximize revenues across every available channel.

He most recently served as President of Sonobi, where he implemented strategy, recruited and led highly effective teams and executed business with leading agencies, brands and media companies. Prior to Sonobi, Anthony held global leadership roles at Rubicon Project, MediaMath, and Maxifier, where he served as CEO. Earlier in his career, he joined DoubleClick via the acquisition of NetGravity and quickly ascended to lead multiple product, operations and engineering divisions.

Anthony is a current Investor and Advisory Board Member of Stackpop and RevCascade, and is a former Advisory Board Member of iSocket (acquired by Rubicon Project).

He is an active participant at industry conferences, speaking about the latest trends in advertising at AdAge’s Brand Summit, Advertising Week, AdMonsters and GABBCON. His thought leadership has been published in AdAge, Adweek, AdExchanger MediaPost, Econsultancy, Digiday and DMN, among others.

Brad is the President/Partner of SS+K – a creative agency with a unique perspective on social engagement. SS+K is partially owned by Creative Artists Agency (CAA).

The firm may be best known as President Obama’s youth marketing agency for its work on both the 2008 and 2012 campaigns, as well as its involvement in the creation and marketing of the yellow wrist band for the Lance Armstrong Foundation.

Since Brad’s return to SS+K 4 years ago, he and his partners have generated year-over-year double-digit growth in revenue and profit and added Fortune 500 clients including GM, Kaplan, Kraft, and Pfizer among others. This momentum was punctuated by a Cannes Gold for Coca-Cola’s Honest Tea and an anointment as Political Agency of the Year by OMMA magazine.

This is Brad’s second tour of duty with the firm. He first joined SS+K in 1994 and stayed through 1998. Since rejoining the firm, Brad’s focus has been on SS+K’s go-to-market strategy, business development, operations, talent acquisition and retention and managing some of the firm’s larger accounts.

Prior to SS+K, Brad was the EVP/Executive Director of Draftcb’s Digital practice and a member of the New York Leadership Team.

Before this, Brad served as the GM and Co-founder of Merkley ID, the Digital and Design unit of Merkley + Partners. Brad also served as Director of Business Development at The Attik, a global digital, design and motion graphics firm working on brands including HBO, MTV and Nike.

Prior to The Attik, he held account management positions at Ogilvy, Cliff Freeman & Partners and Saatchi & Saatchi.

Brad is currently an Agency Advisory Board member to the IAB. He has spoken about the power of social media as a keynote speaker at Brazil’s “Mais” Account Planning Conference and on a panel of independent agencies at the Cannes Festival. He was featured in Departures Magazine as one of the advertising industry’s new Mod Men. He’s been a judge for the Effie’s, led panels for IAB and been a guest columnist for Adweek, MediaPost and The Hub.

Learn more here: http://about.me/bradleykay

Internet and mobile executive with over twelve years of experience, including general management, product development, business development, business operations, and strategy.

Hee Kyu Kim is an SVP, Digital Media lead, within the Customer Investment and Engagement team at Bank of America. Responsibilities include overseeing all paid digital activation across Display and Social channels for every line of business within Bank of America and Merrill.

Hee Kyu joined Bank of America in 2009, as a VP Digital Media overseeing multiple lines of businesses. Previous to joining BofA, she worked 10+ years within various advertising agencies in Boston.

Hee Kyu received her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration at the University of Vermont.

Hee Kyu resides in Boston, MA and is an active member of BIMA/MITX as well as Boston AdClub.

Joyce King Thomas is Chairman, Chief Creative Officer of McCannXBC, a unit focused on leading MasterCard’s global marketing efforts. She has is one of the originators of MasterCard’s priceless campaign, which runs in 100 countries and has been spoofed by everyone from Ralph Nader to Bart Simpson.

During a two-year hiatus from McCann, Joyce became a partner at Longreads, at twitter fueled social reading site. She also became a board member of the Nurse Family Partnership, a group dedicated to teaching parenting skills to young mothers living in poverty.

She has won numerous awards and served as a judge for Cannes, the One Show and the Clios. Advertising Age named Joyce one of the 100 most influential women in advertising.

Rob Klippel is Senior Vice President of Advertising Products and Strategy at Spectrum Reach, the advertising sales division of Charter Communication. He oversees data platforms including insights strategy and attribution, and is responsible for advanced advertising platforms including streaming, video on demand, and digital and cross-platform addressable products.

Mr. Klippel joined Charter from Comcast where he was Vice President of Advanced Platforms, developing dynamic ad insertion on VOD and addressable platforms and prior to that he was Vice President of New Products, and of Engineering and Operations. He also served in leadership roles in customer care and operations at Adelphia, Relera and Verio. Early in his career Mr. Klippel held management consulting roles at Deloitte and Accenture.

He holds a B.S. in engineering from the University of Illinois, and an MBA in marketing and operations from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Mark Kopera leads the Moat Analytics Product organization at Oracle Data Cloud. Part of the Oracle Data Cloud, Moat makes brand advertising more effective by delivering software to measure and optimize media against viewability and attention, brand safety, invalid traffic, and quality.

Prior to Moat, Mark held ad tech leadership positions at Rocket Fuel, [x+1], appssavvy, and Digitas. He also advised media, retail and consumer goods companies and investors as a part of OC&C Strategy Consultants. Mark holds Bachelors and Masters degrees from Cornell University’s College of Engineering and lives in New York City.

Katie Kulik is Executive Vice President, Global Digital Sales at ViacomCBS.

Prior to becoming EVP, Global Digital Sales, Kulik was the Global Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for CBS Interactive’s Tech, Games, Lifestyle and Business groups. For the renowned brands CNET, GameSpot, Chow, Last.fm and others, Kulik leads global revenue and product marketing and directs agency and client media strategy and implementation. A veteran sales and marketing executive, Kulik is an expert in premium digital media and understands how to connect brands with customers anywhere.

In her role as Global Senior Vice President Kulik directed a worldwide team of more than 100 sales and product-marketing professionals dedicated to building major campaigns for brands across CBSi’s ecosystem of screens, from online to mobile and social platforms. Kulik has designed innovative marketing programs for nearly every major technology and CE brand, as well as major auto, CPG, and retail industries.
Kulik’s other expertise lies in change management, helping sales and marketing teams rapidly adjust to – and embrace – the ever-changing digital landscape and the resulting implications on consumer buying habits.

Prior to joining CBS Interactive she was in ad sales with the Motley Fool.

She earned a bachelors degree in Economics and Psychology from Lake Forest College and lives with her husband and daughters in Tiburon, CA.

With a decade of experience Chris LaSala is a seasoned veteran in the digital media space. Chris currently heads Google’s mobile publisher business development efforts where he works with established media brands as well as the emerging mobile application developer community. Prior to this role, Chris held roles leading a channel program aimed at delivering Google’s advertising solutions to local business and leading Google’s North American advertising agency strategy.

Prior to joining Google, Chris held the roles of director of business development at Looksmart where he was responsible for developing partnerships for the distribution of LookSmart’s advertising and search solutions, and strategy development consultant at Strategic Decisions Group, where he advised clients in the oil and gas and technology industries on making multi-billion dollar investments. Chris began his career as a public accountant for five years at Coopers & Lybrand. Chris holds a bachelor of science from Boston College and an MBA from Duke University.

As Global Chief Creative Officer, Nick is responsible for the creative vision of R/GA, the New York-based agency for the digital age. He guides teams of visual designers, copywriters and experience designers as they create award-winning work for a many of Fortune 500 companies. He also ensures that R/GA stays true to the company’s unique legacy of collaboration between world-class creative and groundbreaking technology.

Nick’s background is extensive and diverse, spanning multiple marketing disciplines during 20 years at agencies in the United States and abroad. He began his career in branding and corporate identity and design before switching to advertising, and then ultimately, focusing on digital marketing.

Nick has won every major industry awards, including a Titanium Lion and Grand Prix Cyber Lion at Cannes, and a prestigious Black Pencil from D&AD. Three times he has been named in Creativity Magazine’s “Creativity 50”, a list of the world’s most influential creatives.

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Mike Law is currently Executive Vice President, Managing Director, Video Investment for Dentsu Aegis Network. In this role, Mike oversees TV and Digital video strategy and investments across the agencies clients as well as leading greater convergence internally at the agency and advancing the adoption of new, advanced advertising platforms. Mike oversees more than $4B in annual video spending across many clients including Microsoft, GM, Home Depot, Pfizer, Macy’s, Reckitt Benckiser, MasterCard, Staples, Sony, Dannon, Outback, Disney and Diageo.

Formerly, Mike was Director of Media Strategy and TV Investments for Pfizer where he handled consumer media strategy for their DTC brands as well as managing the portfolios $600MM+ TV and digital video investments. Previously, Mike was a Media Buyer at Carat and Arnold.

Ed Leahy is the Senior Director of data sales and solutions for Lotame, a global marketing technology company that through its leading Data Management Platform (DMP), helps publishers, advertisers and agencies navigate the growing challenge around managing audience data. Ed joined Lotame in 2016 to spearhead data solutions sales efforts across North American agencies and trading desks. Prior to joining Lotame, Ed held positions in business development at iBehavior (KBM Group) and Mariah Media Network. He started his advertising career on the agency side of the business, working for WPP’s GroupM in several client facing roles.

Rich LeFurgy has been a board member, advisor or investor in over 55 online advertising companies, drawing from over a 30 year career in advertising. LeFurgy was Founding Chairman of the IAB and sfBIG, a Venture Capitalist (WaldenVC), head of ad sales at Starwave (ESPN.com) and the Walt Disney Internet Group. Prior to Starwave, LeFurgy had a 17 year career at traditional ad agency NWAyer in New York, working on clients AT&T, Proctor & Gamble, Avon, Gillette and Dupont, among others.

He started online advertising business accelerator Archer in 2004, helping early stage online advertising companies reach takeoff velocity with strategic advisory services in fundraising, trade marketing and sales. LeFurgy received ad:tech’s Industry Achievement Award (2008), the IAB’s Lifetime Achievement Award (2004), was inducted into Advertising Age’s Interactive Hall of Fame (2000). He was recognized by USA Today as the “Johnny Appleseed of online advertising”.

LeFurgy has served on company boards as a director, including Blue Lithium and Associated Content (both sold to Yahoo!) and Web Clients (sold to ValueClick), and is currently on the board of Placecast. He has also provided advisory services to large and small online advertising companies (Google, AOL, Blue Lithium, Glam, and Placecast) and has personally invested in a number of promising online advertising startups, such as Klout, Ad Relevance (sold to Nielsen NetRatings), Grouper/Crackle (sold to Sony) and Blue Lithium (sold to Yahoo!), among others.

Kristian (Kris) Magel serves as President, DAN Media Clients for Dentsu Aegis.


A veteran with nearly two decades of experience in the media business, Kris has proven himself a formidable negotiator who has earned the respect of media partners for both his analytical approach to the marketplace and his passionate representation of clients. His reputation for articulate, informed intelligence also makes him a favorite with the press and a popular panelist at industry events. In 2012 Magel was named to the Adweek 50 (#16) as one of the industry’s most influential executives and was a Mediaweek ‘Media All-Star’ in 2007. Magel also has an influential voice within the video industry, serving as a co-chair of the Ad Council Broadcast TV Committee, a member of the advisory boards of industry collective Videonomics and Advertiser Perceptions and a board member of the New York Advertising Club.

Kris received his Bachelors of Arts degree from the John Wiley School of Business at the State University of New York at Geneseo. He makes his home with his family in New York City and East Hampton, New York.

Jason began his career in 1988 buying media for political campaigns. He joined DMB&B in 1989
working on accounts such as GM, Kraft general Foods and P&G. Jason joined Ogilvy & Mather in 1993 as
Associate Media Director, working on Hershey, Ryder, Mattel, Duracell, and Sandoz Pharmaceutical
(later Novartis Consumer Health Group). He soon rose to Group Director, National Broadcast at Ogilvy,
and was named President, Managing Director in 2000 with Mindshare’s launch in the US.

In 2002, Jason was named Media Buyer of the Year by Electronic Media. In 2005, Jason was named a
Media All-Star for National TV/Cable by AdWeek magazine. Jason has also served as Chairperson of the
4A’s National Audio/Video committee.

Jason graduated from Gettysburg College (Pennsylvania) with a B.A. in English Literature, and was
honored by Gettysburg with the Young Alumni Career Achievement Award in 2003. He lives in Chatham,
New Jersey with his wife, Betsy, and their three children, Sean, Megan, and James. He is an avid reader
and enjoys fishing, hiking and travel.

Emily is a Santa Cruz, California native who currently lives in New York City. Prior to joining IAB Tech Lab, she worked on the social media team at a PR firm specializing in technology companies. She has a B.S. in Business Administration with a concentration in Marketing from Boston University. In her free time, she enjoys running and taking pottery classes!

Ms. Ai Matsubara works closely with Yahoo! JAPAN’s executive management team to optimize business strategy. Prior to becoming a board of director of IAB Tech Lab, over 10 years of Video Ads product development experience with progressively increasing leadership responsibility through Vice President in Yahoo! JAPAN.

Brian Matthews leads the national advertising sales team for the NFL Media group. He oversees the ad sales responsibilities for the NFL Network, NFL RedZone and the NFL Digital portfolio.

Prior to joining the NFL, Matthews was the Senior Vice President of national sales for the NBC News Digital Group. He previously served as the Vice President for the NBC Entertainment team delivering innovative advertising solutions across digital properties such as NBC, Bravo, Oxygen, USA and Syfy. Before joining NBC, Matthews led East Coast sales for the BBC America cable network and the BBC digital properties where he helped create the first BBC sales team in the U.S. marketplace. He also spent seven years at Turner Broadcasting representing CNN Digital, and began his sales career at Scripps Interactive.

Matthews is a graduate of St. Bonaventure University and resides in Chatham, New Jersey with his wife and four children.

Mainak is a Data Science executive with 20+ years experience in consumer, media, and marketing tech. As the Chief Data and Research Officer of Nielsen Company, Mainak leads the Data Science, Identity Solutions and AI initiatives. He is responsible for developing audience measurement methodologies and product development. Mainak is passionate about scaling businesses with AI, developing talent and delivering results. Prior to Nielsen, Mainak held Data Science leadership roles with GfK, Simulmedia, and Google (DoubleClick).

He completed his masters and doctoral studies from Brown University. Mainak is a member of the General Assembly’s Data Science Standard Board and a steering committee member of the University of Chicago Booth Business School’s Kilts Center of Marketing.

Jodie McAfee is Senior Vice President, Sales & Marketing at Inscape, a leading provider of automatic content recognition (ACR) technologies and comprehensive cross-screen metrics for broadcasters and advertisers.

A media and marketing veteran, Jodie has led the strategic execution for advanced video advertising, interactive TV and content acquisition initiatives for more than two decades.

Prior to Inscape, Jodie was General Manager at Samsung AdHub, where he led the development and introduction of Samsung’s multi-screen advertising platform across US and European markets, while overseeing many of Samsung’s partnerships with major agencies and Fortune 500 brands both domestically and internationally.

Previous to Samsung, Jodie was involved in the creation and operation of multiple emerging companies with expertise in connected TV, iTV and advanced advertising. Jodie resides in Brooklyn, is a graduate of The University of Texas and earned a Juris Doctor degree in Entertainment Law from Whittier University.

Kevin McGurn is Vevo’s Chief Sales Officer. He joins Vevo from Fullscreen, where he served as Head of Sales for the company as well as Otter Media properties including Crunchyroll, Roster Teeth SoompiTV and VRV. Prior to Fullscreen, Kevin was Chief Revenue Officer of Shazam. He previously served as Senior Vice President of Sales at Hulu for nearly seven years, where he grew the sales team from zero to half a billion dollars in advertising revenue. Kevin has also held prior senior roles at NBC Universal and DoubleClick.

Adam is SVP – Associate General Counsel for Xandr where he provides legal guidance on technology, product, data, and privacy issues. In his current role, he advises Xandr on the responsible collection and use of data to make advertising matter. Prior to joining Xandr, AT&T’s advertising company, in 2018, Adam was the lead attorney at AT&T for privacy and data protection issues, as well as AT&T’s data analytics unit. Over a 20 year career at AT&T, he has held a wide variety of roles at AT&T, many of them focused on product and data issues. He has a BBA in Management Science from Southern Methodist University and his JD from Baylor University. He offices in New York City.

Noel McMichael is Vice President for Strategic Initiatives and Public Sector at LiveRamp (NYSE: RAMP), the leading connectivity platform for the safe and effective use of data.

Responsible for delivering growth in new market verticals that are making investments in identity resolution strategy, he also oversees strategy for public policy initiatives and helps to ensure LiveRamp solutions are interoperable and compliant with evolving industry regulations and privacy laws. An innovator and product evangelist for over 20 years, McMichael has had an illustrious career in the digital marketing industry, having worked with hundreds of the world’s leading brands and startups to bridge the gap between technology and business.

Before joining LiveRamp, McMichael was Vice President of Product at Acxiom, a leader in identity and customer data management, where he played an instrumental role in the company’s acquisition of LiveRamp and soon after, the formation of the Advertising ID Consortium. His extensive industry experience also includes founding two startups – real-time analytics and demand-side platform Adgile and SEO/SEM company Marketleap. He was also a part of the leadership team at Right Media, the world’s first ad exchange and a pioneer of programmatic media. McMichael has been awarded two patents over the course of his professional tenure, most recently for developing a method to analyze website visitors using anonymized behavioral prediction models.

Throughout his expansive career, McMichael has maintained a passion for mentorship. He currently sits on the board of the IAB Data Center of Excellence and Advertising ID Consortium and was a co-founding board member of the Search Engine Marketers Professional Organization (SEMPO). He holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and international studies from the University of Texas at Arlington.

Maggie co-founded Sibling Rivalry in 2011 with partners Joe Wright and Mikon van Gastel. Creating a hybrid company that at its core is based in design and storytelling for brands and networks. Maggie oversees all the sales and operations of the company.

Maggie comes from a career as an Executive Producer from awarded companies such as @radical media and Droga5. While at Droga5, she produced and branded various award-winning multimedia projects, including the “Tap Project,” where she won the first Titanium Lion at the Cannes International Advertising Festival.

Maggie rarely has down time and prefers to have a full social calendar at all times, as people give her energy. She resides in downtown NYC with her husband and daughter.

Nigel Morris was appointed CEO of Aegis Media Americas in 2011 having held the position of CEO, Aegis Media North America from May 2009. In June 2012 Nigel was additionally appointed CEO of Aegis Media EMEA. From 2003 until 2009, Nigel was the founder CEO of Isobar, and led its rapid expansion into the world’s leading digital services agency network. Prior to this Nigel held a range of senior positions in Carat International. He joined Aegis Media in 1992 having previously worked in fashion, corporate identity and branding consultancy. Nigel is also Chairman of the Aegis Group plc Sustainability Committee and leads the future product offering and service delivery strategy for Aegis Media.

Matt Murphy is partner and Group Creative Director at 72andSunny, where he helps lead the company’s commitment to experimentation with art, technology, and entertainment.

During his five and half years at 72andSunny, he’s worked across many brands, including the iconic collaboration between K-Swiss and Kenny Powers of HBO’s “Eastbound and Down” to create “Kenny Powers, MFCEO” as well as creating the fully integrated launch campaign for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2.

He currently leads the creative charge on all things Google, including the relaunch of the Google’s Search App which invited New Yorkers to rediscover their city through bespoke OOH placements all throughout the city; YouTube’s Proud to Play film, which celebrated equality in sports during the World Cup; and the recent Made With Code: Holiday Lights project, which gave Google’s initiative to get teenage girls into coding a national stage at the White House Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony.

Prior to 72andSunny, Matt spent three years at Wieden+Kennedy in Portland working on Nike and EA.

A 30-plus year veteran and legend in the media world, John Muszynski is the Chief Investment Officer at Spark, and leads all negotiating on behalf of our client’s brands in order to deliver media savings and the best pricing in the marketplace. Not only does John oversee the buying team for Spark, he also leads the Starcom MediaVest Group Exchange (which we call SMGx). John’s SMGx team helps our entire network drive innovation in advanced media and technology while gathering marketplace intelligence across SMG’s $16 Billion in media spending.

Prior to joining Spark and SMGx, John served as CEO of Starcom USA (2005 – 2009), helping build a company at the forefront of leveraging media partnerships to strengthen the brands of some of the world’s biggest marketers. Under his leadership, Starcom was named Ad Age Agency of the Year (2006-07), Media magazine Media Agency of the Year (2005-07) – and was the first media agency to ever make Ad Age’s A List (2007).

John has received numerous honors for his work in the industry, including Advertising Age’s Media Maven, TV Week’s Buyer of the Year as well as a Mediaweek All-Star, min’s Most Intriguing People in Media and Kidscreen Golden Marble Award for Best Media Director. Most recently, John was inducted into the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame, securing his status as an industry icon.

Kunal Nagpal serves as the GM – Publisher Platforms for InMobi driving both revenue and product strategy for InMobi’s publishing business and premium media exchange. Before that, Kunal was Vice President of Client Services at InMobi, where he oversaw account management for thousands of advertiser clients. Prior to InMobi, Kunal spent a number of years at McKinsey and Co., where he worked with Fortune 500 clients on cross-regional board-level strategy, operations and risk discussions for the U.S., Europe and Australia regions

Kristoffer Nelson is the COO and Director of SRAX and principal for BIGtoken. As a founding team member, Kristoffer has been pivotal in growing SRAX into a multinational digital marketing and data management platform company listed on Nasdaq.

With over 15 years of technology and creative business experience, Kristoffer has been a guest speaker for Loyola Marymount University among other academic institutions, the National Association of Broadcasters, the IAB and numerous other professional and media organizations. Kristoffer is also a frequent contributor to many publications in advertising, blockchain, and crypto news and information.

John Nitti joined Zenith in 2009. His goal was to build ZenithInteractive, the full-service digital media arm of the agency, from the ground up. In less than a year, John brought in more than 50 new hires and 10 new clients—increasing digital billings from $3MM to $180MM.

Since then, John’s leadership has continued to change and grow the agency. In 2010 the Digital and Magazine divisions were merged to offer clients a more robust, content-centric approach to media. Two years later, John was promoted to the newly created position of President of Activation, where he was charged with trading, investment, execution, and activation for all Zenith craftskills. In that capacity, John formed the National Video group in 2012 to bring together linear, digital, and mobile video. The latest implementation, in 2013, was the full integration of all aspects of Local Activation (Broadcast, Print, OOH, and Digital).

That same year also saw the creation of the Activation Standards, Insights and Technology group to complete John’s reimagining of Zenith Activation. With the creation of this group, Zenith is now structured to implement buying standards and strategic partnerships and technology platforms that apply to all genres of media and across all of its clients. This group, driven by John’s vision, helps continue to put Zenith in an industry leading position of driving the marketplace for fluidity and ensures Zenith is a respected leader in the measurement, programmatic and technology space.

John’s vision for the Zenith Activation group has brought about tremendous impact for the agency. His Activation Team now includes over 300 staff members across North America and manages clients’ media investments of over $10B (2013). John is the architect of Zenith’s fluid video approach for reaching consumers across multiple screens. He has also been a guiding force in the creation of strategic partnerships that drive cross-platform innovation and measurement.

Fueled by a drive for innovation and a desire to evolve the media marketplace, John was promoted to Chief Investment Officer of Zenith in September of 2014. In this position, John will continue his oversight of the Zenith Activation teams while adding many key initiatives for Publics Groupe and the ZO Agency Network (Zenith, Optimedia, Moxie and Performics) to his remit.

Prior to joining Zenith, John was Director of U.S. Media & Sponsorships at American Express for six years, where he was responsible for developing and overseeing traditional and digital media planning and strategy efforts across various business areas for the company.

In addition to his work at Zenith and American Express, John has held posts at Young & Rubicam, Time Inc. and Dentsu. He has over 16 years of experience in media planning, buying, and sales.

John holds a Bachelor of Science in marketing and finance from Wagner College. He resides on Staten Island, New York, with his wife Noelle and their two sons.

Kim Norris is a senior cable advertising and media executive with over 20 years of experience in general management leading sales, strategy and new ad technology products and data solutions for multiple cable operators. As Group Vice President, Digital & Advanced Advertising Sales, Kim is responsible for leading the sales teams in the Northeast and a robust enterprise wide digital business. An industry thought leader and innovator; Norris has established a record of success running both traditional media sales and incubating and deploying transformative new advertising products at the convergence of media, technology and data.

Prior to Joining Spectrum Reach, Norris was Chief Operating Officer for Viamedia and worked with the company’s 60 MVPD partners across the US on both traditional and OTT and mobile streaming and programmatic advertising monetization with local, regional and national advertisers in 70 DMA’s across the country. While at Viamedia, she successfully launched an addressable platform with Google Fiber in Kansas City and led the company’s programmatic TV platform placemedia.
 
Previously, Norris held senior sales and product roles at both Comcast and Cablevision. As EVP of Emerging Business & Data Analytics at Cablevision, Norris drove the advanced advertising product roadmap and commercial strategy for set top box data and addressable and interactive television advertising that established Cablevision as an advertising industry leader and innovator. At Comcast she was a Division Vice President for the Northeast television markets following Comcast’s acquisition of ATT Cable. Norris also served as the founding President of the DPAA (Digital Place-based Advertising Association) in the digital out-of-home advertising industry.

Norris has served on advisory committees for television and digital industry groups and several technology companies. Multichannel News and Women in Cable Telecommunications (WICT) named her a “Wonder Woman” in 2013. She is a Cynopsis 2016 ‘Top Women in Digital” and has been recognized by Cablefax as a “Top Woman in Cabletech” 2011-2016 and is a WICT Betsey Magness Fellow. In 2010, she received the “Most Significant Product or Platform” award from ITVT for leadership in interactive and multiplatform television.

Janet was one of the first to apply strategic corporate communications to build agency brands. She was The Martin Agency’s first director of agency communications and held the same post later at Fallon and again in 1999 when she joined McKinney. Her work has earned international media for the agency’s talked-about work in the marketplace. In 2009, Janet inspired the formation of the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s Agency Advisory Board that serves as the voice of creativity to its publisher members. She has chaired the 4A’s Agency Communications Committee and is on the board of the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication.