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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top New York, New York based CEO’ operating in the Advertising space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Oleg Tscheltzoff
Co-Founder & CEO of Fotolia
Oleg Tscheltzoff is Co-Founder & CEO at Fotolia. Oleg Tscheltzoff is the Investor of LOTS18. Oleg Tscheltzoff is one of the top serial internet entrepreneurs but also a successful angel investor with over 30 investments, board member, serious innovator, provocateur, disruptor, and connector. As an entrepreneur, Oleg has leveraged a global vision and knowledge of international business, management and marketing to develop successful online businesses. In 2004 Oleg co-founded Fotolia.com, the first global online social marketplace for creative digital stock images. As president, he led the company to the world’s largest microstock photography site. Prior to Fotolia, Oleg co-founded Amen, the leading Internet hosting company in France, which was sold in 2004 to Vianetworks (NASDAC Symbol VNWIE).
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About 90 Seconds, Aircall, Birchbox, Bird, Calm, Carta, Customer.io, Dealroom.co, Doctrine, eFounders, Farfetch, Fotolia, Molotov TV, Opendoor, PandaDoc, PayFit, Robinhood, SimpliField, StarOfService, Stash Financial, talent.io, Tempow, WeWork: Fotolia is an image bank that offers a crowdsourced library, which includes royalty-free images, vectors, illustrations and video clips.
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Arthur F. Muldoon
CEO & Co-Founder of ArcSpan Technologies
Arthur Muldoon is CEO and Co-founder of ArcSpan Technologies. Previously, he was co-CEO of Amnet US and the CEO and Co-founder of Accordant Media, a leading technology-driven programmatic media specialist company. Accordant Media was acquired by Dentsu Aegis Network in 2016. Over the past 20 years, Art has carved out a digital media career launching innovative solutions to help marketers achieve better audience engagement. Earlier, Art was SVP, Global Data Platforms at Aegis Media; SVP of Client Services and Analytics at BzzAgent; and General Manager, Client Services, Avenue A | Razorfish. Art also led the launch of an e-commerce business at Corbis Images in Seattle and was a corporate strategy consultant in the Media, Entertainment and Telecoms group at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Los Angeles. Earlier, Art was a Corporate Finance Analyst at Lehman Brothers in NYC, focused on high tech. Art holds a BA from Trinity College (CT) and an MBA from the Kellogg School, Northwestern University. He resides in New York City with his wife and two young daughters.
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About ArcSpan Technologies: ArcSpan Technologies is a B2B audience data technology company building an enterprise-class addressable audience data monetization platform.
Alan Gould
Founder & Co-CEO of MutualMarkets
Alan founded IAG Research, which became the leading provider of engagement metrics in the television industry, and served as co-CEO until the company was acquired by Nielsen. Alan then served as the CEO of Advertising Solutions for Nielsen, and is currently a venture partner for Greycroft Partners. Alan is a graduate of the New York University School of Law (J.D.), Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government (M.P.P.), and the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service (B.S.F.S.).
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About Embark, MutualMarkets, Peak Opportunity Partners: We are an AI powered marketplace that boosts ad performance by making co-marketing brand alliances easy.
Eric Gould
Founder & Co-CEO of MutualMarkets
Co-Managing Partner@Peak Opportunity Partners (“POP”). Pop is an early-stage venture fund that focuses on seed and early stage companies. POP makes opportunistic investments that can typically be a company’s first outside capital. Investments include: Blue Apron, Work Fusion(Crowd Computing), Stella Service, Great Bridge ( Earnest Research ), EBTH ( Everything But The House ).
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About Canvs, GoSpotCheck, MutualMarkets, Peak Opportunity Partners: We are an AI powered marketplace that boosts ad performance by making co-marketing brand alliances easy.
Bill Koenigsberg
President, CEO & Founder of Horizon media
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About Horizon media: Horizon Media, Inc. is the largest and fastest growing privately held media services agency in the world.
Mark Zagorski
Chief Executive Officer of DoubleVerify
Mark joined DoubleVerify in 2020 as Chief Executive Officer, responsible for oversight of global company operations, expansion into new markets and strategic product innovation – including DV’s CTV/OTT video capabilities. Mark brings over two decades of digital marketing and advertising technology leadership experience to the role, with expertise in CTV/OTT, data analytics and digital advertising optimization. Prior to joining DV, Mark served as the CEO of Telaria (NYSE:TLRA), where he was instrumental in establishing the business as the leading video and CTV monetization platform for premium video publishers. At Telaria, he led consistent growth in revenue and enterprise value, and spearheaded the company’s successful merger with Rubicon Project (NASDAQ:RUBI) – resulting in the industry’s largest independent sell-side advertising platform. Previously, Mark served as CEO of eXelate (Deloitte’s 2014 fastest growing tech company in NYC), where he led the sale of the company to Nielsen and subsequently assumed the role of Executive Vice President, launching the Nielsen Marketing Cloud. Prior to eXelate Mark held C-Level leadership roles at local digital media pioneers WorldNow (acquired by Frankly) and MediaSpan (acquired by Naviga). Mark earned his B.S. in Finance from Gannon University, where he also holds an Honorary Doctorate and his M.B.A. from the University of Rochester’s Simon School of Business. He has been named one of AdWeek’s Martech Superstars, Cannes Lions Judge and an E&Y Entrepreneur of the year Semi Finalist. Mark has been at the forefront of digital disruption since 1997, when he joined Modem Media Poppe Tyson, a pioneering digital ad agency and birthplace of the first banner ad. Following his agency tenure working for clients like IBM, Priceline and Standard & Poor’s, Mark was appointed president of WorldNow, which ushered over 300 TV stations into the digital age. He later helped newspapers evolve online as chief marketing officer and corporate EVP of MediaSpan, where he built its 1400+-affiliate local network. Mark received his MBA from the University of Rochester’s Simon Business School and his B.S. in finance from Gannon University, where he was awarded the university’s Distinguished Alumni Award and an honorary doctorate of Humane Letters (L.H.D.)
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About DoubleVerify: DoubleVerify is a software platform for digital media measurement, data, and analytics.
Harry Kargman
Founder & CEO of Kargo
Harry founded Kargo in 2003, and over the past decade he has grown it from a small start-up shop to the leader in mobile brand advertising. In 2015, Kargo was recognized as one of the America’s fastest growing companies by Inc. magazine. Today, Kargo works with the world’s most prestigious media companies and brands to deliver high quality mobile brand advertising. Kargo’s technology and ad experiences are integrated into the sites and apps of more than 300 of the largest publishers, and its technology powers the campaigns of more than 200 of the most influential brands. Kargo has won more than 7 Mobi and OMMA awards for creative innovation. Harry’s experience building Kargo from the ground up gives him a deep understanding of the latest trends, consumer behavior, and the broader forces reshaping the media and advertising landscape. He holds over fifty patents related to Kargo’s technology and continues to drive the company to innovate around mobile advertising solutions, data products and programmatic technology. Harry is a frequent speaker at advertising and technology conferences including CES, IAB and Advertising Week, and has been featured in The New York Times, The Today Show, Advertising Age, The Wall Street Journal, NPR and dozens of other media outlets. Harry graduated with honors from Harvard College where he is now an advisor to young entrepreneurs through the Harvard Innovation Lab. He lives in New York City with his wife and three children.
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About Kargo: Kargo is the leader in mobile brand advertising.
Fayez Mohamood
Co-founder & CEO of Bluecore
He is the co-founder and CEO of TriggerMail, a marketing automation company that allows eCommerce companies to personalize emails in real-time. Previously, he was Head of Product at BigDoor where He was responsible for concieving, executing and iterating on gamified loyalty and rewards programs to increase user retention across the websites of major global brands like NFL, Dell, Adobe and Starbucks to name a few.He also co-founded Gameday Tycoon, a simple fantasy sports game that runs on Facebook, as well as Sponty which was a service that allowed people to discover music events in town. In a previous life, He was into microprocessor design and simulation. He developed and integrated the first combined Graphics and Processor Memory Controller simulator at AMD to predict and analyze the performance impact of AMD’s Fusion CPUs. his first rookie Master’s publication when He was a student at Georgia Tech was awarded the Best Paper by the prestigious IBM’s TJ Watson Research, and a subsequent publication was adopted by AMD in one of their CPUs even before He finished graduate school. In addition, He also worked on developing graphical frameworks for Simulink and MATLAB at The Mathworks in Boston. He graduated with a Master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech, where He published several papers on high-performance microprocessor design.
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About Bluecore: Bluecore uses predictive intelligence to automatically connect shoppers to products, content, and offers, wherever they are.
Chris Beals
CEO and President of Weedmaps
Christopher Beals is the chief executive officer of Weedmaps. Prior to being CEO, he first serves as the company’s president and general counsel from 2015 until his appointment in March 2019.
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About Weedmaps, WM Technology: Weedmaps is the world’s first marijuana technology and media brand.
Steven Swartz
President & CEO of Hearst Communications
Steven R. Swartz became president and chief executive officer of Hearst Corporation on June 1, 2013. Before his promotion to CEO, Swartz, a member of the Board of Directors of Hearst Corporation and a trustee of The Hearst Family Trust, was president and chief operating officer of the Corporation. He was president of Hearst Newspapers, the operating group responsible for Hearst’s newspapers, local digital marketing services businesses and directories, from 2009 to 2011, and executive vice president of the Group from 2001 to 2008. Hearst Newspapers, with more than 4,700 employees across the nation, publishes 15 dailies and 36 weeklies in cities including Houston, San Francisco, San Antonio and Albany. It also operates digital marketing services and directories businesses under the LocalEdge brand. Before joining Hearst in 2001, Swartz was president and chief executive of SmartMoney, the magazine, website and custom publishing business launched by Hearst and News Corp.’s Dow Jones unit. Prior to becoming CEO in 1995, he had been the magazine’s founding editor since 1991. Under his leadership, SmartMoney magazine won two National Magazine Awards and was Advertising Age’s Magazine of the Year. Swartz began his journalism career as a reporter with The Wall Street Journal in 1984 after graduating from Harvard. He served as an editor on the Journal’s Page One staff from 1989 to 1991. Swartz is a member of the ESPN board of directors and is a director of the Associated Press. He is also a member of the board of visitors of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, a member of the board of directors of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and chairman of the Lincoln Center Corporate Fund.
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About Hearst Communications: Hearst is large private diversified media, information, and services company with more than 360 businesses
Thomas Pasquet
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of Ogury
Thomas Pasquet is an entrepreneur and business angel within the Digital Advertising market. After graduating from Grenoble Ecole de Management and a Master entrepreneur HEC, he co-founded the company BeeAd. BeeAd was the first outstream Adnetwork with innovative formats and was sold to e-buzzing group (Teads). After developing BeeAd in Europe (Uk, Italy, Spain, Germany), he left e-buzzing with his business partner Jean. BeeAd is now making around 50 million revenue worldwide. After this experience, they created Ogury Ltd, a British company focused on mobile advertising with a technology that allows the advertiser to chase new clients.
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About Ogury: Ogury is building a world of highly effective and sustainable advertising, anchored in consumer privacy protection.
David A. Steinberg
Founder & CEO of Zeta Global
David Steinberg is currently CEO, Chairman and Co-Founder of Zeta Global, a company known for its reputation as a top-tier big data marketing technology company. Previously, as CEO of CAIVIS, Mr. Steinberg acquired several small companies including those with focuses in big data, customer acquisition (programmatic) and CRM, to form XL Marketing (now Zeta Global). Prior to founding CAIVIS, Mr. Steinberg founded InPhonic, the largest seller of wireless phones and communications products and services on the Internet, with annual revenue in excess of $400 million. InPhonic was #1 on Inc. 500 list of fastest growing companies in 2004, the year it went public on the NASDAQ. Mr. Steinberg also served as chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sterling Cellular, a business-to-business and retail wireless communications provider, and Sterling Communications, a communications telemarketing company. Mr. Steinberg was named the Greater Washington Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for communications in 2002. He currently sits on the Board of Directors of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Faster Cures of the Milken Institute, and the Greater Washington Sports Alliance as well as the Board of Trustees of Washington & Jefferson College. Mr. Steinberg holds a B.S. from Washington & Jefferson College.
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About Caivis, Sol systems, Zeta Global: Zeta offers technology and marketing services to help brands acquire, engage, and retain customers.
Brett Garfinkel
Co-Founder & CEO of SYLO
Brett Garfinkel is a Co-Founder & CEO at SYLO.
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About SYLO: SYLO provides marketers and creators with 3rd-party validation and standardized measurement to confidently invest in influencer marketing.
Michael Barrett
Chief Executive Officer of Magnite
Michael Barrett joined Magnite as Chief Executive Officer in 2020.
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About Ichabod Farm Ventures, Magnite: Magnite is a sell-side advertising platform that provides technology for publishers to monetize their content across all screens and format.
Amber Atherton
CEO & Founder of Zyper
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About Zyper: Zyper is a machine learning-led community marketing software that helps brands connect with their fans, and fans connect with each other.
Ari Buchalter
Founder and CEO of Place Exchange
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About Place Exchange: The First True Programmatic Exchange for Out-of-Home Media
Michael McLaren
Global CEO – B2B Group of Merkle
Michael McLaren has been an Executive Global Group Director for High-Tech and B-to-B Practices at Merkle Inc. since October 2016. Michael McLaren serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer at McCann World Group Holdings Japan, Inc. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of MRM//McCann from April 2014 to May 17, 2016 and also served as its President from May 2013 to 2016. He served as the President of MRM Worldwide, Inc. since May 2013 and also its Chief Executive Officer since April 2014. He served as the President of MRM East Region and Global Client Solutions Director/Chief Client Solutions Director at MRM Worldwide, Inc. until April 2013 and also served as its Worldwide President of MRM since April 2013. He served as Regional Director of McCann Worldgroup Asia Pacific since November 15, 2009. He served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of McCann Worldgroup Japan from November 15, 2009 to September 2011. He served as the President of McCann EricKson US of McCann Worldgroup since May 2007. Prior to this, he served as Worldwide Director of Global Accounts. Along with his stewardship of key Worldgroup businesses, he has been responsible for the quality and vitality of client relationships across Worldgroup disciplines and has focused on improving and expanding cross-discipline integration. He served as Worldwide Account Director on Worldgroup’s global Microsoft account and Director of Client Services in McCann’s San Francisco agency and led the global expansion of McCann’s responsibilities for Microsoft. He began his advertising career in his native Australia and later worked in Asia and the U.S. with another Interpublic agency, Lowe (formerly, Lowe). Over the years, he has served on such packaged goods clients as Nestle, Unilever, Coca-Cola and Johnson & Johnson and continue to work with ExxonMobil and Johnson & Johnson, key McCann clients in Asia. He began his marketing career as a Brand Manager for packaged goods giant, Unilever. He served as the Chairman and Director of McCann Worldgroup Japan. He serves as a Director at McCann World Group Holdings Japan, Inc. Michael McLaren received Bachelor’s Degree in Business from the University of New South Wales and an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management.
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About Merkle: Merkle is a customer relationship management agency that designs, executes and evaluates integrated marketing programs.
Dave Morgan
CEO & Founder & Vice President, Sports Digital News of Simulmedia
Morgan is the CEO and founder of Simulmedia, a New York based marketing technology company that uses data, science and software to drive business outcomes for advertisers through traditional TV marketing. He previously founded and ran both TACODA, Inc., an online advertising company that pioneered behavioral online marketing and was acquired by AOL in 2007 for $275 million, and Real Media, Inc., one of the world’s first ad serving and online ad network companies and a predecessor to 24/7 Real Media (TFSM), which was later sold to WPP for $649 million. After the sale of TACODA, Dave served as Executive Vice President, Global Advertising Strategy, at AOL, a Time Warner Company (TWX).
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About Simulmedia, Sinclair Broadcast Group: Simulmedia is a TV ad platform that enables predictable, scalable customer growth.
Jonah Peretti
Founder & CEO of BuzzFeed
Jonah Peretti is founder and CEO of BuzzFeed, the first true social news organization that provides a pioneering mix of breaking news, entertainment and shareable content. Mr. Peretti, known for creating viral hits, tracking online social behavior and building technology to amplify buzz is also a co-founder of The Huffington Post. He has been called a “viral marketing hotdog” by the New York Times, “the poster boy of guerilla media” by AlterNet and a “computer-whiz” by The New Yorker. Fast Company named Mr. Peretti one of the “New Faces of Social Media” and named BuzzFeed as one of the “50 Most Innovative Companies” in 2012. Business Insider listed him as one of the “11 Rising Tech Stars to Watch in 2012.” Mr. Peretti is a graduate of the MIT Media Lab and has taught at NYU and the Parsons School of Design. His work has been covered by Time, the Economist, Fortune, and Business Insider and he has appeared as a guest on the Today Show, Good Morning America and CNN. In 2012, Mr. Peretti hired Ben Smith of POLITICO to lead as Editor-in-Chief. BuzzFeed reaches over 40 million monthly unique visitors and gets the majority of its traffic from social sources like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and more.
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About BuzzFeed: BuzzFeed is a cross-platform digital media company delivering news and entertainment content to a global audience.
Alex Collmer
Founder & CEO of VidMob
Alex Collmer is the founder and CEO of VidMob, the world’s largest video creation platform.As the web transitions to a video-driven medium, Collmer recognized the need for businesses to have access to the world’s best video creators who could produce quality content for a variety of platforms that was affordable. Since founding the company in 2015, Collmer has raised more than $13M and counts the leading brands and agencies as clients. Combing an elegant interface with a roster of more than 5000 video creators enables anyone to maximize their video presence and make a brand impact with video. An engineer by training, Collmer’s career has always been at the intersection of technology, design, and consumer entertainment as those sectors have evolved. Prior to founding VidMob, Collmer was the co-founder and CEO of Autumn Games, a premier publisher of video game franchises. Under his leadership, Autumn Games developed successful partnerships with such personalities as Jimmie Johnson, the 7-time NASCAR champion and companies like Def Jam, the leading urban culture brand, as well as the award-winning fighting game franchise, Skullgirls. Previously, Collmer was a founder and board member of the New York Video School, an online film school focused on empowering people all over the world to become “video literate” (www.nyvs.com). Collmer received a B.S. from Cornell University’s School of Engineering and was a certified E.I.T. in the field of structural engineering in the state of New York. Collmer sits on the board of several technology and media companies and has spoken at numerous universities and conferences on entrepreneurship and media. In his spare time, he coaches little league soccer and baseball.
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About VidMob: VidMob is a video content creation network and platform where brands can create digital video ads with expert teams.
Corey Weiner
CEO of Jun Group
Corey is one of Jun Group’s founders. He serves as President and Chief Operating Officer, overseeing product development, publisher strategy, finance, business development, and operations. He is also the Chief Executive Officer of Jun Group’s mobile platform subsidiary, HyprMX. Prior to founding Jun Group, Corey consulted for SONY USA and the United States government. Corey holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
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About Jun Group: Jun Group runs advertising for brands and publishers. Our mobile-first approach is powered by opt-in, first-party data generated by our SDK.
Franke Rodriguez
Partner & CEO of Anomaly
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About Anomaly: Anomaly is an advertising agency.
Mike Seiman
CEO and Founder of CPXi
Mike Seiman is the CEO & Chairman of CPXi, a global digital media company that he co-founded while still a college student at Hofstra University in the early 2000′s. The company has grown quickly and is now a major player within the crowded online advertising landscape, serving billions of ad impressions in more than 65 countries every day. CPXi continues the rapid growth that led to its inclusion on Inc. Magazine’s list of fastest growing privately held advertising/marketing companies in 2008 and 2009. Mike was selected as a semi-finalist in Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year initiative in 2009, 2010, and 2013. In his free time, Mike currently serves on the Board of Advisors of his alma mater, Hofstra University. He also focuses on numerous philanthropic initiatives including sitting on the boards of the H.E.S. (Hebrew Educational Society non-profit community center) and Children’s International, where he spearheaded the development of a community center in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Also a fan of the arts, Mike has executive produced a feature length film distributed by Lionsgate.
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About CPXi, Digital Remedy: CPXI is a company that offers state of the art design in technology marketing resources to businesses of all kinds.
Tim Armstrong
Founder, CEO of the dtx company
Tim Armstrong is the Founder and CEO of the dtx company, where he is focused on empowering consumers and brands to build direct relationships. Armstrong founded a Boston newspaper after graduating from Connecticut College. In 1995, he moved to Seattle to join Paul Allen’s first internet company, Starwave, which was acquired by Disney. Armstrong moved to New York with Disney and worked at ABC/ESPN Internet Ventures. After Disney, he joined Florida Governor Rick Scott’s health-focused cable and internet company, America’s Health Network, which was later sold to News Corp. Armstrong then went on to be a founding team member of Snowball, which went on to IPO on the Nasdaq. Armstrong left Snowball in 2000 to join Google as its first New York employee; he left Google after almost a decade serving as President of the Americas and as a member of Google’s global executive team. He joined AOL as Chairman and CEO to spin the company out of Time Warner and launch AOL as a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange. After turning AOL around and outperforming the S&P 500 during his tenure as CEO, he sold the company to Verizon Communications. Armstrong joined Verizon as CEO of its digital media division, Oath, and served as a member of its executive team. Armstrong serves on the boards of Booking Holdings (NASDAQ), Tech:NYC as co-founder, Greenwich Academy for Girls as Chairman, Connecticut College Athletic Club as co-founder, Waterside School and US Olympic & Paralympic Foundation as trustee. He also serves as a loving husband and dad, as well as lacrosse and basketball coach. Armstrong is an avid New England sports fan and Massachusetts native. He is part Camel (Connecticut College graduate) and part Spartan (Lawrence Academy graduate).
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About AOL, Tech:NYC, the dtx company: Our mission is direct to everything. Our products Flowcode and Flowpage create direct connections between consumers and brands.
Adam Singolda
Founder & CEO of Taboola
Adam Singolda is the founder and CEO at Taboola, the largest discovery platform, serving over 450 billion recommendations of articles, blogs, videos, products and apps to over 1.4 billion unique users every month. Taboola serves personalized content recommendations, partnering with the world’s top publishers, brands, and marketers to drive audience development, engagement, and monetization. Taboola also empowers editorial, product, and sales teams with solutions built around real-time page optimization, robust native advertising offerings, and more. Adam has spoken on stage at TEDx, Collision, Kaltura Connect, Business Insider’s IGNITION, ClickZ LIVE, Advertising Week, 360i Marketing Summit, Web Summit, Landmark Ventures Media Technology Summit, Streaming Media, NAB, NewTeeVee, ELEVATE, Meetup, and MIT (Sloan). He has also appeared in broadcast TV interviews on Bloomberg West, CNBC, and Fox Business.
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About Taboola: Taboola is an AI-powered content discovery platform that connects people with content on the web that suits their interests.
Nick Brien
CEO, Americas & US of Dentsu Aegis Network
Nick Brien, the former chairman and CEO of McCann Worldgroup, is a strategic consultant, global board advisor and angel investor. With a track record over three decades leading some of the most successful advertising, media and marketing agencies, Brien has a passion for brand marketing and media communications solutions that deliver the greatest possible business impact to marketers. Before joining McCann Worldgroup, one of the world’s largest marketing communications companies, Brien created and led IPG Mediabrands. Previously, he served as the chief executive of Universal McCann. Earlier in his career, Brien held leadership posts at the Publicis Groupe’s Arc and Starcom firms, where he shaped those companies’ media, advertising and integrated marketing offerings. Prior to moving to the U.S. in 2001 and becoming a U.S. citizen in 2010, the British native went from media director to the CEO of Leo Burnett in the U.K. He began his media career in London with Grey Advertising. Brien graduated from the University of the Arts, London, and studied at Kings College in Wimbledon.
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About Dentsu Aegis Network: Dentsu Aegis Network is the first digitally native network that specializes in media, digital and creative communications services.
Ben Barokas
CEO & Founder of Sourcepoint
Prior to founding AdMeld, Mr. Barokas was Vice President of Advertising for JumpTV. He also spent 6 years at AOL in a variety of online advertising leadership positions including senior manager on the team that developed and launched the AOL video platform. Mr. Barokas served on the IAB’s Broadband Committee.
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About Sourcepoint: Sourcepoint is the data privacy software company for the digital marketing ecosystem.
Michael Heller
CEO and Founder of Talent Resources
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About Talent Resources, Talent Resources: Talent Resources is a social media marketing agency that specializes in connecting brands with top-tier celebrities and influencers.
Michael Houston
CEO, Grey North America of Grey
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About Grey: Grey Group is a global advertising and marketing agency with headquarters in New York City
James Heekin
CEO of Grey
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About Grey: Grey Group is a global advertising and marketing agency with headquarters in New York City
Eric Berry
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of TripleLift
Eric Berry is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of TripleLift, Inc. Eric Berry is building the TripleLift, Inc. to be the leader in social and visual amplification. Prior to TripleLift, he was a Leader on the client services and product architecture teams at AppNexus, and was an Attorney at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP. Eric Berry received Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Computer Science from MIT and a J.D. from New York University School of Law.
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About TripleLift: TripleLift is the programmatic technology company for native, branded content and OTT.
Neil Vogel
Chief Executive Officer of Dotdash
Neil Vogel is the CEO Dotdash.
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About Diskbase, Dotdash, FirstMark, The Balance, VeryWell: Dotdash’s vibrant brands help over 100 million users each month find answers, solve problems, and get inspired.
Simon Berg
CEO of Ceros
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About Ceros: Ceros is a cloud-based interactive content creation platform for marketers and designers.
Andre Swanston
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Tru Optik
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About Tru Optik: Tru Optik is the Only Audience Measurement and Data Management Platform Built for OTT
Ragy Thomas
Founder & CEO of Sprinklr
Ragy Thomas is the CEO and founder of Sprinklr, a provider of enterprise software for customer experience management. Sprinklr was last valued at more than $1.8 billion in 2016. He founded Sprinklr in 2009, and the company now has 1900 employees around the world serving global clients such as Microsoft and McDonald’s. Prior to founding Sprinklr, Ragy was the president of Epsilon’s (NYSE:ADS) Interactive Services from 2006 to 2008, and the CTO of Bigfoot Interactive, an email marketing leader that Epsilon acquired in 2005. Ragy earned his M.B.A. in Finance and Information Systems from New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business and his Computer Science Engineering degree from Pondicherry University in India.
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About Sprinklr, Sprinklr Japan: Sprinklr provides enterprise software for customer experience management.
Lance Johnson
CEO of Recurrent Ventures
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About Recurrent Ventures: Recurrent is an innovative digital media company that helps brands to grow, and connect with consumers.
Mark Thompson
President & CEO of The New York Times
Mark Thompson became President and Chief Executive Officer of The New York Times Company on November 12, 2012. He is responsible for leading the company’s strategy, operations and business units. Thompson has been instrumental in accelerating the pace of The Times’s digital transformation. Under his leadership, The Times became the first news organization in the world to pass the one million digital-only subscription mark. The company has also introduced a new era of international growth, launched an industry-leading branded content studio and invested in virtual reality, producing some of the most celebrated work in this emerging medium. Before joining the Times Company, Thompson served as Director-General of the BBC from 2004, where he reshaped the organization to meet the challenge of the digital age, ensuring that it remained a leading innovator with the launch of services such as the BBC iPlayer. He also oversaw a transformation of the BBC itself, driving productivity and efficiency through the introduction of new technologies and bold organizational redesign. Thompson joined the BBC in 1979 as a production trainee. He helped launch “Watchdog” and “Breakfast Time,” was an Output Editor on “Newsnight,” and was appointed Editor of the “Nine O’Clock News” in 1988 and of “Panorama” in 1990. He became Controller (programming and scheduling chief) for the TV network BBC2 and Director of Television for the BBC before leaving the BBC in 2002 to become C.E.O. of Channel 4 Television Corporation in the United Kingdom. In the autumn of 2012, he was a visiting professor of rhetoric and the art of public persuasion at the University of Oxford. His book “Enough Said: What’s Gone Wrong with the Language of Politics?,” which is based on the lectures he gave at Oxford, was published in the U.K. and U.S. in September 2016. Thompson was educated at Stonyhurst College and Merton College, Oxford.
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About The New York Times: The New York Times creates, collects, and distributes news, information, and entertainment through a daily newspaper and a website.
Seth Besmertnik
Founder & CEO of Conductor
Since founding Conductor, Seth Besmertnik has led the company through multiple financing rounds and extraordinary growth, including Conductor’s successful spin out from WeWork in 2019. Conductor has been nationally recognized as a best place to work for 7 years running, and Seth was named Marketing Technology CEO of the year in 2019. Today, a growing list of the world’s greatest brands, like Citibank, SAP, and CVS, partner with Conductor to humanize marketing and deliver greater value to their customers. Seth speaks at industry events and universities as an expert in customer-first marketing, people-first culture, and entrepreneurship. You can watch his most recent keynote here, follow him on Twitter, or get to know him better on Instagram. You can read his point of view on a variety of topics here, including this post on modern leadership.
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About Conductor: Conductor is a content intelligence platform that enables marketers to create great content, drive qualified traffic, and increase ROI.
Peter Clark
Chief Executive Officer of Forward Media
As CEO of Forward Media, Peter is focused on leading the agency’s growth, product strategy, and overall strategic direction to build a world-class results-based business performance media agency. Peter leverages his experience to drive innovation and a culture that is laser focused on achieving measurable results for our clients. His vision is to build an environment where the people, processes, and products work in full alignment toward achieving success for our employees and partner clients. His goal is to build a team that cultivates a client-first organization and where innovation and technology combine with a drive to succeed. Prior to founding Forward Media Peter had a 25-plus-year career in the advertising, media, and creative industry, both running agencies and at the holding company level.
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About Forward Media: Performance Digital Media Agency
Michael Provenzano
Co-Founder/ CEO of Vistar Media
CEO & Co-Founder of Vistar Media
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About BrandVerge, Vistar Media: Vistar Media turns movement data into actionable insights about consumer behavior.
Simon Mansell
CEO of TBG Digital
Simon founded TBG in 2001 and has grown it into a global force known for delivering results and defying clients’ expectations.
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About TBG Digital: TBG Digital, a Facebook ad optimization platform, enable social network advertisers monitor and optimize global scale campaigns.
Barak Shragai
Co-Founder & CEO of IMGN Media
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About IMGN Media: IMGN is a tech-media company specialized in producing and programming social content for Gen Z audiences.
David Downey
Chief Executive Officer of INVIDI Technologies
Dave Downey is the Chief Executive Officer at INVIDI Technologies.
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About INVIDI Technologies: INVIDI Technologies offers Advatar, an application that delivers addressable targeted advertising and marketing messages to viewers.
Bruce J. Anderson
Co-CEO & Global CTO of INVIDI Technologies
Bruce Anderson is the Co-CEO & Global CTO at INVIDI Technologies.
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About INVIDI Technologies: INVIDI Technologies offers Advatar, an application that delivers addressable targeted advertising and marketing messages to viewers.
Zvika Netter
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Innovid
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About Innovid: Innovid is the only independent omni-channel advertising and analytics platform built for television.
Bill Wise
Co-Founder & CEO of Mediaocean
Bill Wise is the founding CEO of Mediaocean. Bill has spent over a decade unleashing the potential of revolutionary advertising technologies, overseeing more than $5 billion in mergers, acquisitions and public offerings, including the $720 million sale of Mediaocean to Vista Equity Partners in August 2015. He comes to Mediaocean from his role as CEO of advertising software provider MediaBank, one of Mediaocean’s two founding companies along with Donovan Data Systems (DDS). Prior to MediaBank, Bill served as an executive at Yahoo, overseeing global advertising platforms – a role he achieved after serving as president of Right Media, which he helped guide to an $850 million acquisition by Yahoo in 2007. His other executive leadership positions have driven success at companies including DoubleClick, MaxOnline and Ask, which became part of IAC Advertising Solutions. Bill is on the board of directors of the Ad Council and the Centre for Social Innovation. He is also chairman of MediaWallah. Bill is an avid and active angel investor through Click Ventures. Business Insider ranked him as a top digital professional four times, he was listed among Goldman Sachs’ 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs and he was named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in Technology. Bill is a sought-after speaker and frequently writes articles for AdWeek, Ad Age, The Wall Street Journal and other publications. He holds a B.S. in accounting and business from the University at Albany and is a CPA. He is the proud father of Connor, Kate and Charlotte.
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About Click Ventures, Mediaocean, MediaWallah, Superpowers Podcast: Mediaocean provides software platforms for the advertising community.
Will Cohen
Founder and CEO of Top
An industry recognized, innovative business executive with extensive experience in digital, monetization, shopper marketing, retail advertising, product development; including a heavy focus on mobile and social media.
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About HuffPost, Top: Top is a multi-channel engagement platform for brands, giving them the chance to collect privacy-compliant data without the use of cookies.
Jason Grad
Co-Founder and CEO of Massive
Jason is the co-founder & CEO of Massive, an SDK that allows partners to offer their users a premium services in exchange for the users’ underutilized CPU. Prior to Massive, he founded Cheerful Giving, a leading fundraising platform for charities, which was acquired by GoodWorld.
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About Massive: Massive is an SDK that allows developers to offer premium content to users in exchange for a little bit of their unused processing power.
Kunal Gupta
Founder & CEO of Polar
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About Polar: Polar provides digital media technology to publishers and advertisers.
Alex Rahaman
CEO and Founder of StrikeAd
Alex Rahaman is the Partner at Idekapital Fund.
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About Adimo, FluxLoop, Idekapital, Shenorock Ventures, StrikeAd, Urban Analytix: StrikeAd Fusion, a proprietary technology platform for agencies and advertisers to plan, execute, and evaluate their mobile advertisements.
Jeremy Parker
Co-Founder & CEO of Swag.com
Jeremy Parker is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Swag.com.
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About Swag.com: Swag.com helps companies create quality promotional products that people will actually want to keep.
John Laramie
Chief Executive Officer of Project X Media
John Laramie is the President, CEO and Founder of ADstruc, the leading buying platform for the outdoor advertising industry, where he oversees all of the company’s business operations and sales. He graduated from Loyola University of Maryland with a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration and Concentration in Marketing. John, a two-time entrepreneur, is an active member of the New York Tech Community and enjoys playing ping pong and tennis. John was also featured in Business Week’s Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs 2011 and Silicon Alley’s 2011 and 2010 Top 100 People in NYC Tech. In 2007, John started his own consulting agency, the JFL Group, where he helped develop the brand behind Naked Ping Pong, the group that is now known as SPiN New York (www.spinyc.com), a 13,000-square-foot table tennis social club. Previously, John worked at The Beanstalk Group, the world’s leading brand licensing agency. In his 4 years with the company, he carried out strategic licensing programs that generated over $400 million a year in retail sales on behalf of Ford Motor Company, NBC Universal, Harley-Davidson and Nestle Purina, among others.
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About ADstruc, Project X Media: Project X Media uses its industry leading technology platform to launch Out-of-Home advertising campaigns.
Zack Werner
Co Founder & CEO of Pollen
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About Pollen: Pollen helps small online retailers acquire new users more cheaply and easily than Google or Facebook.
Dave Otten
Founder & CEO of JW Player
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About JW Player: JW Player is a video streaming and analytics platform that offers an HTML5 video player for web content, publishing, and running video ads.
Cristina De la Pena
CEO & Co-Founder of Synapbox
Cristina De la Pena joined Synapbox as Founder & CEO in 2018.Cristina De la Pena has been a technology innovator since the beginning of her professional career. From building algorithms to optimize digital models to rethinking the way we build and interact with the real world. During her latest years, she has been leading the growth of Synapbox and reinventing the way we understand human behavior. By using AI and visual computing to understand facial expressions and attentional engagement, we are able to quantify the experience of consumers while interacting with content on their screens at scale. Everything, without the use of any external hardware or implementation to brands.
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About NeuroCrowd, Synapbox: Synapbox is a startup that uses AI-powered tools to understand consumer engagement towards Ads.
Sloan Gaon
CEO of PulsePoint
Sloan Gaon is the CEO of PulsePoint, leading the company’s vision and mission to deliver integrated, value-based digital marketing solutions for advertisers and publishers. A renowned industry veteran, Gaon has executive management expertise in global digital marketing, content and e-commerce. Prior to joining PulsePoint, Gaon served as CEO of Dotmenu, the leading online food e-commerce company, where he successfully navigated its acquisition by Grubhub. Through Dotmenu’s flagship sites Allmenus and Campusfood, Gaon successfully grew reach and revenue for the biggest network of restaurants across the nation. Prior to Dotmenu, Gaon was General Manager of the Web Content channel of Adknowledge and COO of RegistryPro, Inc., a subsidiary of Register.com.
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About Forward, PulsePoint: PulsePoint is a technology company using data to accelerate healthcare marketing.
Alexander Jordan
CEO of Firon Marketing
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About Firon Marketing: We are a strategic digital marketing agency committed to optimizing your performance across all social and search platforms.
Colin Jacobsen
CEO of Arlene
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About Arlene: Connecting people and brands in immersive environments.
Matthew Greenhouse
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of ColSpace
Matthew founded ColSpace to help the Advertising Industry improve the management of global marketing campaigns. Its cloud-based Media Management Platform manages over $11 billion in advertising from the world’s biggest brands. Prior to ColSpace, he designed e-commerce systems for Fortune 500 companies while at KPMG and BSG, winning Gartner Group’s Best Internet Infrastructure of the Year. He holds an IE degree from Northwestern University.
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About ColSpace: ColSpace is a provider of cloud-based, collaborative media-planning software.
Nikesh Desai
Founder & CEO of InvestingChannel, Inc.
Nikesh is a founder and CEO of InvestingChannel. As CEO, he leads the company’s overall strategic direction. Nikesh and Bob started the consultancy Giant Step Strategies which served as the initial underpinning of InvestingChannel. They successfully helped major financial media companies with their ad strategies which created the demand and impetus for InvestingChannel. He has been the key figure in building the largest exclusive consortium of financial destinations at InvestingChannel. Prior to building Giant Step Strategies and InvestingChannel, Nikesh served as the Vice President of Business Development at TheStreet.com where he implemented strategic initiatives and new technologies, including partnerships, contextual advertising, co-registration, customer acquisition/lead generation and many other programs to increase revenue, drive traffic and enhance site performance. He was one of the original members of PeoplePC’s business development team and was instrumental during its IPO process and sale to EarthLink. Nikesh focused on product development, sales, strategic partnerships and acquisition activities. He started his career as an investment banker with Robertson Stephens involved in public offerings and mergers & acquisitions aggregating over $1 billion with Internet and software companies. Nikesh aspires to be a traveling food critic while trying to hit every major soccer stadium across the world.
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About InvestingChannel, Inc.: Our mission is to be most innovative and scalable marketing platform in financial services.
Kwang Suk (David) Kim
Co-CEO & President of InvestingChannel, Inc.
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About InvestingChannel, Inc., L2: Our mission is to be most innovative and scalable marketing platform in financial services.
John Saroff
Chief Executive Officer of Chartbeat
John Saroff is CEO of Chartbeat, the leading content intelligence platform used by more than 50,000 of the world’s top media properties in over 60 countries. Chartbeat believes that meaningful stories matter wherever they live, and that in an increasingly mobile, social world, Chartbeat is the only analytics solution newsrooms rely on to understand consumer attention and make the most of their quality content on site and offsite. Saroff has worked on the cutting-edge of media and technology for 17+ years, setting the daily operations and business development agendas of companies as diverse as Google, NBC-Universal and vente-privee.
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About Chartbeat: Chartbeat tools measure and monetize website visitors’ attention and engagement on page content and advertising.
Richard Awdeh
CEO of CheckedUp
Richard Awdeh, MD, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of CheckedUp, is a dedicated medical technology entrepreneur & highly regarded surgical ophthalmologist who founded CheckedUp in 2012 to create a pathway of revolutionizing the way doctors care for their patients, and empowering patients’ decisions through point of care education. In addition to his work at CheckedUp, Dr Awdeh continues his surgical practice at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, as a Cornea-Refractive Surgeon and Professor. He also has served as Chairman of the FDA Dermatologic and Ophthalmic Drugs Advisory Committee. In 2010, he founded a medical technology incubator, Cirle, that develops state of the art medical devices for use in ophthalmic surgeries. The company maintains a robust research and development pipeline, and developed a 3-dimensional surgical navigation system for eye surgery, which has recently been registered with the U.S. FDA. Previous to CheckedUp, Dr Awdeh attended Emory University where he obtained his BBA in Finance and Computer Science. After completing business school, he went on to Yale University School of Medicine to obtain his M.D. He practiced medicine at Duke University as an Ophthalmologist before moving to Miami, FL to begin his practice at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, the country’s #1 Eye Hospital by US News & World Report for 15 years. Dr. Awdeh serves on the Yale University CBIT Board of Directors and lectures at the Yale University School of Management on Healthcare Innovation and New Venture Creation. He is widely published and lectures around the world on ophthalmic disease and interventions. In his personal time, Dr Awdeh enjoys traveling, visiting his twin nephews, and supporting non-profit benefits such as St Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, Seed Global Health, and Amigos For Kids.
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About CheckedUp, Miami Marlins, University of Miami, University of Miami Health System: CheckedUp is a Health-decision technology and patient education platform.
Michael Dill
CEO of Match Marketing Group
Michael Dill is a President at Match Marketing Group.
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About Match Marketing Group: Match Marketing Group is an integrated shopper marketing and retail solutions provider.
Philippe Krakowsky
Chief Executive Officer of IPG
Philippe Krakowsky is Founder & Chief Executive Officer for Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG), a leading global provider of marketing services. During recent years, Philippe has played a key role in major strategic actions at the company, including the creation of Mediabrands; oversight of developing digital and emerging media capabilities; establishing a new leadership team at McCann Worldgroup; the merger of Draft and FCB; and encouraging cross-agency, collaborative client teams. His group also manages communications for IPG as well as the company’s award-winning diversity and inclusion activities. Krakowsky has extensive experience devising strategies and building brands, particularly in the professional services arena. Prior to joining IPG, he played a leading role in articulating and differentiating the Young & Rubicam brand to a broad range of audiences – employees, clients, prospects, the financial community and the media – in the period leading up to and following Y&R’s transformation from a private to a public company. Previously, he led the positioning and all communications efforts for BBDO when that agency carved out the niche it still enjoys as advertising’s premier global creative network. Philippe started his career as an entrepreneur in the technology industry, building and ultimately selling an artificial intelligence software development company. He moved into advertising at the heralded New York creative boutique Levine, Huntley, Schmidt and Beaver, where he worked to market both the agency and its clients’ businesses. In 1999, he was inducted into the American Advertising Federation’s “Hall of Achievement,” the premier United States industry honor for marketing services professionals under age 40.
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About Interpublic Group, IPG, IPG Mediabrands: IPG is an advertising and marketing services company delivering custom marketing and advertising solutions.
Yali Saar
Co-Founder & CEO of Tailor Brands
Yali Saar is the Co-Founder & CEO of Tailor Brands.
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About Tailor Brands: Tailor Brands is a branding platform that enables users to freely design and create their product logos.
Erhan Ciris
Founder and CEO of 4D Sight
Founder and CEO at 4D Sight
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About 4D Sight: Deep video monetization platform.
Michael Kassan
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of MediaLink
Michael E. Kassan helps bridge the gaps between media, marketers, and technologists. Kassan founded MediaLink in 2003 to be a transformational partner to the world’s leading media, marketing, and technology companies. Bringing these groups together while balancing strategic insight with pragmatic execution, MediaLink guides its clients through an increasingly fragmented media landscape. As Chairman and CEO, Kassan has led the firm’s expansion from strategic advisory into multiple business lines including executive search, financial due diligence, agency benchmarking/reviews, and trade marketing. With a culture focused on both confidentiality and transparency, MediaLink now sits at the epicenter of major cross-industry initiatives and legislation helping to build consensus between government, marketers, and publishers. Kassan maintains a deep commitment to advising the media industry’s leadership. He acts as Special Advisor to numerous CEO’s helping them “break through the noise” in today’s marketplace and advising on issues ranging from corporate strategy and partnerships to M&A. Drawing on a combination of experience, relationships, and insights, Kassan writes extensively as a noted blogger and serves frequently as a moderator and keynote speaker at global industry conferences. He has built instrumental partnerships with the Consumer Electronics Show and the Cannes Lions. He also produces and hosts a radio show on WOR 710 AM and Clear Channel’s iHeartRadio, “Medialinked — Inside Advertising and Media with Michael Kassan.” Prior to MediaLink, Kassan led Initiative Media Worldwide as COO and Vice-Chairman from 1994 to 2001. Kassan helped grow the company’s initial $1.5 billion in billings nearly ten-fold. Prior to Initiative, he was President and COO of International Video Entertainment (Artisan Entertainment). In his first career, Kassan spent ten years as a tax lawyer specializing in the entertainment industry. Kassan currently serves as Chair of the UJA-New York Marketing Communications Committee as well as on the Boards of the American Advertising Federation, the Ad Council, and the Hollywood Radio and Television Society. He served as Chairman of the California State Senate Select Committee on the Entertainment Industry.
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About MediaLink: MediaLink is a strategic advisory firm that provides strategic advisory and implementation services to companies at all stages.
Vernon K Jones Sr.
Chief Executive Officer of JIG Media
Owned various businesses for the past 26 years. Oversees every aspect of the company. Oversees the following brands – NYC Sports Network, Brooklyn Buzz. NYC Democrats, NYC Teachers
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About JIG Media: JIG Media is a Digital Media Marketing Agency.
Roopesh Nair
CEO of Symphony Talent
Roopesh Nair is a President & CEO at Symphony Talent
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About Hodes, SmashFly Technologies, Symphony Talent: Symphony Talent is a global leader in employer brand and candidate experience solutions for some of the world’s leading brands.
Don Scales
CEO, Investis Digital of Investis Digital
Don Scales is the CEO of Investis Digital, a global digital communications company that helps world-class businesses manage their corporate brands. He is an interactive industry veteran, with more than 25 years as an executive manager. Before joining iCrossing, Scales was CEO at Agency.com, where he managed all aspects of the agency’s worldwide operations. He had also served as Global COO, North American President, and Western Regional President. In addition, Scales served as Managing Director of Igate Capital, an Internet-centric holding company that focuses exclusively on e-services. In its fifth anniversary issue, BtoB Magazine named Scales one of the top 25 newsmakers for 2000-2005. He was also named to BtoB Magazine’s list of Who’s Who in Search in 2009. Scales is a member of the Board of Directors for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of North Texas and a member of the Internet Task Force for Make-A-Wish Foundation of America. He has dual undergraduate degrees in Chemical Engineering and Mathematical Physics, and a master of science in chemical engineering from Rice University; he also has an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
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About Investis Digital: Investis Digital is a digital communication company that provides its clients with SaaS platform to manage their digital ecosystem.
Jeremy Fain
CEO & Co-Founder of Cognitiv
Jeremy Fain is the co-founder and CEO of Cognitiv. With over 20 years of interactive experience, Jeremy has worked across the agency and publisher landscape in roles ranging from marketing, to industry standards, to revenue leadership. While at CBS Interactive, he launched and oversaw one of the first premium programmatic exchanges, which eventually led to his role managing all North American accounts at Rubicon Project. Jeremy founded Cognitiv in 2015 with two childhood friends who shared an interest in making Deep Learning accessible to business. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Yale University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.
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About Cognitiv: Cognitiv uses proprietary Deep Learning technology to help companies with Big Data problems get beyond analysis to decisions.
Josh Reznick
Founder & CEO of Datalot
Josh Reznick has been a communications software developer since childhood and has been helping shape how businesses connect with customers for the past two decades. In 2009, Josh founded Datalot with the goal of creating a unified platform merging digital advertising with phone-based sales processes. Josh is a lifelong resident of Brooklyn, NY
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About Datalot: Datalot delivers digital marketing and analytics solutions for insurance policy sales at scale.
John Shankman
Founder and CEO of Hashtag Labs
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About Hashtag Labs: Hashtag Labs builds products for and services online publishing companies and digital advertisers.
Caitlin Connors
CEO of Block Theory
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About Block Theory: Block Theory is a creative collective of blockchain experts providing marketing strategy, technical writing.
Jason Bitensky
CEO & Founder of YW3
Jason Bitensky is the CEO and Founder of YW3.
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About Influential, Jubilee Media, Little Dot Studios, LIVEKINDLY, Upworthy, YW3: YW3 is a marketing firm and revenue accelerator for media and entertainment brands.
Nancy Marzouk
CEO & Founder of MediaWallah
Nancy founded MediaWallah in 2013. She saw a gap and pitfalls in how marketers were leverage their data and the need to connect fragmented data to an individual to drive better cross channel media plan results in real-time. As CEO & Founder of MediaWallah, she is responsible for all aspects of the company’s vision, strategy, and execution. Over the past 17 years Nancy Marzouk has been recognized as a thought leader and revenue powerhouse in digital marketing and ad tech. Her strategy and tactics have helped many digital companies grow into major acquisition targets. She was most recently the CRO at TagMan (acquire by Ensighten) where she managed sales, marketing, product implementation, client management, and business development. Nancy has a strong reputation in the digital media industry and has held other executive roles at IgnitionOne (acquired by Dentsu), x+1 (acquired by Rocket Fuel) , DRIVEpm (acquired by Microsoft) and Ask Jeeves ( acquired by IAC/Interactive Corp). Nancy is a battle-tested digital expert with a wealth of ad tech and online marketing knowledge. She frequently spoke at serval OMMA events, Digiday events, at the iMedia Agency Summit, Web 2.0, Ad:tech and many other prestigious event. She also has write Op-ed pieces for publications such as Adweek and been quoted in industry trades such as Ad Exchanger, ClickZ and Mediapost.
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About MediaWallah: MediaWallah offers a highly scalable cloud based user mapping Data as a Service (DaaS) platform for large brands.
Daymond John
Founder ,CEO & President of Shark Branding
Daymond John is an American entrepreneur, investor, television personality, author and motivational speaker. He is best known as the founder, president, and CEO of FUBU, and appears as an investor on the ABC reality television series Shark Tank. Mr. John received numerous awards, including Brandweek Marketer of the Year, the NAACP Entrepreneurs of the Year Award (which he won twice), the Advertising Age Marketing 1000 Award for Outstanding Ad Campaign, the Essence Award, Crain’s New York Business Forty Under Forty Award, and Ernst & Young’s New York Entrepreneur of the Year Award
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About ABC Entertainment, FUBU, Shark Branding: Shark Branding is a branding, advertising, and marketing agency founded by Daymond John.
Joe Zawadzki
Co-Founder & CEO of MediaMath
MediaMath CEO Joe Zawadzki is a respected pioneer in the online marketing industry, known especially for establishing the demand-side platform sector. With his deep experience in audience targeting and optimization, ad networks and exchanges, and real-time bidding Joe is regularly invited to speak at industry conferences, roundtables and major events. After a decade representing buyers at top-tier agencies and Fortune 500 companies, Joe Zawadzki saw the need to reshape the online marketing landscape by integrating technology, data, analytics, and marketing best practices into a single media platform. He founded MediaMath in 2007, launching a technological revolution with the first demand side platform (DSP) and today, the MediaMath Marketing Operating System, TerminalOne, powers the marketing practice of more than 3,500 brands. Previously, Joe was founder, president and chairman of Poindexter Systems / [x+1], incubated Right Media, and as managing member of Occam’s Razor, shaped AOL’s yield management and DoubleClick’s buy-side optimization strategy. His early career was spent as an investment banker, where he developed his expertise in quantitative analysis and market dynamics, and he remains an active New York technology investor whose portfolio includes AppNexus, AdSafe, 33Across, C3Metrics, Hashable, Accordant and Spruce Media. Joe holds several patents in the area of online methods for dynamic segmentation and content presentation. 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, born on the summer and winter solstices respectively.
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About MediaMath: MediaMath develops and delivers digital advertising media and data management technology solutions to advertisers worldwide.
Rosco Hill
CEO of Perpetua
Rosco Hill is the Chief Executive Officer at Perpetua Labs and Chairman at Draper AI. Before that, he was the Co-Founder at Blend Labs.
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About Perpetua: Perpetua Labs helps brands improve the performance of their ecommerce ads using AI-powered automation.
Ryan Urban
CEO & Founder of Wunderkind (formerly BounceX)
Ryan Urban is the Co-Founder and CEO of Bounce Exchange, Inc the leader in behavioral automation software and analytics. In 2015 he was named an EY Entrepreneur of the Year finalist. In the same year, under his leadership, Bounce Exchange was ranked number one overall for both employee retention and career development by ComputerWorld, named one of the best places to work in NYC by Crain’s New York and honored as one of Fortune’s top three best places to work. Ryan was formerly Director of Acquisition at Bonobos and prior to that, Brickhouse Security. He has served on the advisory boards of both BabyAge.com and Bonobos. He holds an MBA from Fairleigh Dickinson University.
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About Wunderkind (formerly BounceX): Wunderkind enables the world’s top brands to better recognize their customers online, providing 1-to-1 marketing at scale.
Jason Davis
Co-Founder, CEO of Simon Data
Jason Davis is co-founder & CEO at Simon Data.
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About CmomGO, Simon Data, Simon Data: Simon is the enterprise customer data platform that empowers brands to deliver data-driven, personalized customer experiences everywhere.
Brandon Kaplan
CEO of Skilled Creative
Brandon Kaplan is the Founder of SKILLED, an emerging technology creative agency, headquartered in NYC. SKILLED develops best in class conversational experiences for Fortune 500 brands, and has developed the proprietary SKILLSET platform, allowing partners to adjust voice content with agility and without coding.
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About Skilled Creative: Skilled Creatives are group that leveraging tech to help brands speak to humans.
Brian Lesser
Chairman and CEO of InfoSum
Brian Lesser serves as the Executive Chairman at InfoSum.
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About InfoSum, Xaxis: InfoSum provides a decentralized platform designed to remove the trust barriers between progress and privacy.
Marie Chevrier
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Sampler
Marie Chevrier is a young entrepreneur originally from Montreal, Canada. Marie started her career in advertising at J. Walter Thompson in Toronto. From there, she had the chance to work at a venture capital firm in New York City. After a few years there, Marie came back to Toronto to merge her passion for marketing and technology. Marie started Sampler with a vision to transform the way consumer packaged good companies distribute promotional offers. Sampler is an end-to-end digital sampling SaaS that helps brands, agencies, publishers and retailers create targeted, measurable and social product sampling campaigns. The platform was developed with the goal of helping consumer packaged goods brands create loyal customers through a targeted sampling strategy. Using Sampler, brands can set up digital sampling programs with just a few clicks and gather real-time analytics on how their campaign is performing and who is participating
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About Sampler, TechToronto: The Leader in Direct-To-Consumer Product Sampling
Robert Henderson
CEO of JumpCrew
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About Intelegencia, JumpCrew: JumpCrew is an acquisition marketing platform focused on integrating digital technology and sales solutions.
William Johnson
Co-Chief Executive Officer of Nielsen
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About Nielsen: Nielsen provides a comprehensive understanding of what consumers watch and buy.
Bhargav Patel
Co-Founder/CEO of IQM Corporation
Bhargav Patel is a strategic and technical visionary who leads the product roadmap and marketplace vision for IQM. His primary focus is on mobile infrastructure, advertising trends, and consumer needs. Patel has been building advertising and publishing platforms since 2010, and he’s been involved with multiple startups, one of which earned him first place in the “1176 Challenge Cup” among 64,000 start-up companies sponsored by the US Chamber of Commerce. He earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Toledo University in Ohio.
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About Genuin Inc, IQM Corporation: Leveraging AI and Big Data to Nudge Swing Voters toward active decisions on election.
Glenn Houck
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of LeadQual
Glenn Houck is Co-Founder of LQ Digital. Founded in 2006, LQ Digital has grown to become one of the largest independent Digital Advertising agencies in the U.S. Glenn previously served as Senior Vice President at HomeGain.com, with direct responsibility for sales, marketing, product development and information technology. HomeGain.com was acquired in 2005 by Classified Ventures. In addition, Glenn has served on the board of directors of Laurel House, in Stamford, CT, and currently, serves on the board of directors of Inman News. Glenn holds an MBA from Sacred Heart University and a BA degree in Economics from the University of Virginia.
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About LeadQual, MyVictory Wellness, Sacred Heart University: LeadQual is a full service digital marketing, lead generation, and qualification agency.
Yaniv Makover
Co-founder & CEO of Anyword
Yaniv Makover is the Co-founder and CEO at Keywee
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About Anyword: Anyword offers publishers and marketers an approach to content distribution and performance measurement.
Shelly Lazarus
Chairman & CEO of Ogilvy & Mather
Shelly has been working, as she would say it, “In the business I love,” for more than three decades, almost all of that time at Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide. Rising through the ranks of account service, Shelly has held positions of increasing responsibility in the management of the company, including president of O&M Direct North America, Ogilvy & Mather New York, Ogilvy North America, Chief Operating Officer, and CEO of Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide. She is currently Chairman of the worldwide company. Shelly started at Ogilvy at a time when the agency’s legendary founder David Ogilvy still walked the halls, and personally preached that the purpose of advertising was to build great brands. Under Shelly’s leadership, that essential mission has remained the centerpiece of the company’s philosophy, extending across regions and marketing disciplines, and attracting some of the world’s largest and most respected brands including American Express, BP, Coca-Cola, IBM, Motorola and Unilever among many others. Shelly has been a frequent industry honoree. Advertising Women of New York selected Shelly as its Woman of the Year in 1994. Shelly was the first woman to receive Columbia Business School’s Distinguished Leader in Business Award as well as the first woman to receive the Advertising Educational Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award. She is also a member of the Direct Marketing Association’s Hall of Fame. Shelly serves on the boards of several corporate, philanthropic and academic institutions: General Electric, Merck, New York Presbyterian Hospital, American Museum of Natural History, Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy, World Wildlife Fund and the Board of Overseers of Columbia Business School where she received her MBA in 1970. She served for five years as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Smith College, her alma mater. She is a member of Advertising Women of New York; The Committee of 200; Council on Foreign Relations; The Business Council; Women’s Forum, Inc.; and Deloitte & Touche Council for the Advancement of Women. She has also served as Chairman of the American Association of Advertising Agencies.Shelly is the wife of Dr. George Lazarus, a New York pediatrician, and mother to their three grown children.
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About Ogilvy & Mather: Ogilvy specializes in brand strategy, advertising, digital transformation, consulting, PR and influence, customer engagement and commerce.
Justin Wisz
CEO of Truthify
Justin Wisz is CEO at Truthify, and Venture Partner at RTP Ventures. He was previously Co-Founder at Vestorly, Inc. Justin Wisz was employed at Fisher Investments. He was founder of 2 digital advertising firms.
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About ForwardPro, Truthify: Mobile applications that leverage AI to change the way people communicate and companies advertise and connect with their clients/prospects.
Mae Karwowski
CEO, Founder of Obviously
Mae is the CEO and Founder of Obviously, the influencer platform for the world’s iconic brands. Mae has grown this company from a one person start up to a 15 person, global company with a brand roster that includes many Fortune 500 companies. Obviously specializes in building custom networks of influencers for brands, specifically large scale global communities of hundreds to thousands of influencers with the right target audiences. Working with the best brands out there, we build relationships with the influencers that embody their ethos while moving their businesses forward. Before Starting Obviously, Mae ran social media for Gilt City, part of Gilt Groupe. Previous to that she ran social media for Bravo, Coca Cola and UGG with the ad agency 360i. She enjoys playing tennis, snowboarding, corgi .gifs and talking tech and entrepreneurship 24/7.
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About Obviously: Obviously builds and manages influencer networks for the world’s iconic brands.
Udayan Bose
Founder & CEO of NetElixir
Udayan Bose founded NetElixir with a vision to provide online marketers worldwide with a paid search campaign optimization solution capable of delivering magical performance. Udayan recognized the potential of paid search as an essential advertising channel in 2002. Having experienced first hand the complexity involved in running a profitable paid search campaign, he was driven to develop a system that delivers predictable and efficient campaign performance, allowing marketers to fully leverage the power of paid search as a high value sales generator. Prior to starting NetElixir, Udayan was Director of Business Development for iGlobalMedia/PartyGaming, the world’s largest online gaming company. In this role he was responsible for building a new business unit, PartyBingo, that became a major revenue generator for the company. Udayan is a regular speaker at leading industry conferences like Internet Retailer Conference (US), Internet Retailing Conference (UK), eTail and Search Engine Strategies Conferences (US and Germany). He is a guest lecturer at Cornell University’s Johnson School of Management; Zicklin School of Business, Baruch, NY and Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. Udayan holds a B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and an M.B.A. from Mumbai University, India.
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About NetElixir: We specialize in SEM. Fanatically analytical. Search advertising mavens. Technology builders. Friendly experts.
James Slezak
CEO and Co-Founder of Swayable
James Slezak is Co-Founder and CEO of [Swayable](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/swayable). He was previously Vice President and Chief of Operations of NYT Global at [The New York Times](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/newyorktimes), a company that creates, collects, and distributes news, information, and entertainment through a daily newspaper and a website. Prior to those positions, he co-founded New Economy Lab and Peers.org. Slezak was also a project lead at McKinsey & Company as well as a partner of Purpose.com. He holds a bachelor’s degree in science from the University of Sydney and a PhD in Experimental Physics from Cornell University.
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About Swayable, Tunism: Swayable is a data platform that predicts changes in consumer opinion and intentions
Kevin Fortuna
Founder, CEO of GeistM
Kevin Fortuna is the former Co- Founder of LOT18.
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About AKF Partners, GeistM: GeistM is the #1 Content MarTech platform powering performance marketing for a portfolio of Fortune 100 brands and hyper-growth startups.
Jennifer Prosek
Founder & CEO of Prosek Partners
Jennifer Prosek is the founder and CEO of Prosek Partners, a leading international public relations and financial communications consultancy with offices in New York, Connecticut and London. The firm ranks among the top 20 independent public relations firms in the US and among the top five financial communications consultancies in the US and UK. The firm has been listed as an Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Company of the Year for four years running and ranked among the Top 20 in New York Observer’s PR Power List in 2014. Prosek is a published author and frequent speaker. Her book “Army of Entrepreneurs,” published in 2011, received praise from Columbia Business School, Wharton and INSEAD. Her second book “Raising Can-Do Kids,” co-authored with Brown Ph.D. Richard Rende, was published by Penguin Random House in the summer of 2015. Prosek received her MBA from Columbia University and a BA in English literature from Miami University. She is on the board of directors of the Arthur Page Society, Institute for Public Relations, and The New York City Partnership for the Homeless. In 2015 Prosek was listed in PR Week’s Global PR Power Book.
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About Prosek Partners: Prosek Partners is a communications consultancy that delivers an unexpected level of passion, creativity and marketing savvy.
Tom Pachys
CEO and Co-Founder of EX.CO
Tom Pachys is co-founder and CEO of EX.CO. Tom’s entrepreneurial spirit started early in life when he began coding at an early age. He eventually joined the elite technology intelligence unit followed. He then join Sundaysky as one of the first team members following by his own tech startup.
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About EX.CO: EX.CO is a technology company used by brands & publishers to turn content into engaging and interactive experiences driving results.
Mary Keane-Dawson
Group CEO of Takumi
Mary is a digital maven, entrepreneur and business mentor. In 2013, after c-suite roles at WPP, Steak, Reform and Collective, she co-founded medical technology startup MyHealthPal as well as the women’s networking franchise How She Made It. Both enterprises started in London, but have expanded to the US and Canada. Mary started in advertising sales on Fleet Street in the late 80’s and she has been part of the digital revolution ever since. She has helped guide several of the world’s largest brands’ entry to the disruptive and evolving landscape of digital, including Mazda, Ford, American Airlines, John Lewis, BUPA and British Gas. She is chair of The Guardian Changing Advertising Summit, a speaker, writer and business mentor and coach. She is Global Ambassador for the British Interactive Media Association, on the Board of London Tech Advocates and NED to The Smalls as well as advisor to investors and entrepreneurs.
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About Takumi: Takumi is a platform that gives large brands and advertising agencies access to branded influencer creative at scale.
JB Perrette
President And Chief Executive Officer – Discovery Networks International of Discovery
Named Chief Digital Officer at Discovery Communications in October 2011, JB Perrette oversees a combined team of more than 300 employees, leads the company’s digital strategy, including Discovery’s U.S. websites, Interactive Technology, Digital Operations and Programming group and digital distribution efforts. He is also responsible for Discovery’s Information Technology services division, Discovery Commerce, including Licensing and Home Entertainment, as well as Footage and Music Services. Prior to joining Discovery, Perrette spent 11 years with NBCUniversal, most recently serving as President, Digital and Affiliate Distribution and Content Distribution Strategy, leading North American distribution of television and film content across digital platforms. He coordinated NBCU’s overall content distribution strategy, and was responsible for NBC’s broadcast network distribution. He also helped launch new digital channels Sleuth, Chiller and Universal HD and played a leadership role in developing the industry-leading digital venture, Hulu. Perrette’s previous roles at NBC Universal included President of Affiliate Distribution, SVP of New Media Distribution; CFO of NBC Universal Cable; and VP of NBC Business Development. Before joining NBC in 2000, Perrette worked for GE Capital, and at CS First Boston in London and Tokyo. Perrette’s industry and civic commitments have included board positions with A&E Television Networks, Hulu, the Peacock Equity Fund and Citizen Schools New York, a non-profit devoted to expanding the learning day for middle school students in low-income communities. Perrette received his BA from Hamilton College and currently resides in New York City with his wife, Amy and their son.
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About Discovery: Discovery is a multinational mass media factual television company covering science, history, geography, survival, and more.
Andy Monfried
Founder & CEO of Lotame
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About Lotame: Lotame is the leading provider of data enrichment solutions for global enterprises.
