Best Startup
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 based Founder operating in the Advertising space. If you think a Founder 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.
Garret Vreeland
CCO & Co-Founder of ArcSpan Technologies
After spending many years at advertising agencies, Garret moved into ad sales at about the time the internet was coming of age. He sold his first banner in 1996 on moneymagazine.com (part of Time Inc’s Pathfinder initiative), and has since led sales teams at some great companies. These include premium publishers (Time Inc), portals (Lycos, Yahoo!), search (Looksmart), and performance networks (24/7 Real Media, Right Media and most recently Akamai/Acerno).
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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.
Bill Apfelbaum
Co-Founder of SaysMe.TV
William Apfelbaum as Chairman, effective immediately. Apfelbaum, a renowned leader in the media industry, will be responsible for accelerating the success of Media Ventures Group and its growing client roster. In addition to his recent investment in the company, Apfelbaum has investments and holds board positions in more than 10 media based companies to complement his 30-plus years of high-profile marketing and media experience. “Bill is one of the most dynamic and accomplished leaders in marketing,” said Richard Yaffa, CEO of Media Ventures Group. “Bill brings the experience, strategic insight, value and relationships to take Media Ventures Group and our clients to the next level. We could not be more excited to welcome him to our leadership team and look forward to his contributions.” A media industry legend with an unprecedented record of guiding companies to success, Apfelbaum joins Media Ventures Group from Titan Worldwide, where he served as Chairman after cofounding the company in 2001. During his tenure, Apfelbaum saw the business become the fastest growing out-of-home advertising company in history. Prior to Titan Worldwide, Apfelbaum served as Chairman and CEO of TDI, the country’s largest diversified outdoor media company, which was ultimately acquired by Westinghouse/CBS. “It is an honor for me to contribute to the continued growth and success of Media Ventures Group at this seminal time for the company,” Apfelbaum said. “I look forward to joining the already stellar team that Rich has assembled and capitalizing on the opportunity for Media Ventures Group to become a true leader in the marketing and community-building space.” Active in the philanthropic community, Apfelbaum founded the Apfelbaum Family Foundation, through which he donates time and funds to various charitable organizations. He is also a respected guest lecturer at the Harvard Business School, New York University, Columbia University, and the London Business School. He has been profiled in many leading publications, including Forbes, Advertising Age, and Chief Executive.
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About SaysMe.TV: SaysMe.TV operates as an online platform for people to buy advertising time on cable television.
Michael Blanche
Co-Founder of Surfside
Michael Blanche is the Co-Founder at Surfside.
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About Surfside: An end-to-end marketing platform turning first party customer data into personalized advertising campaigns.
Jon Lowen
Co-Founder of Surfside
Jon Lowen is the Co-Founder at Surfside.
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About Surfside: An end-to-end marketing platform turning first party customer data into personalized advertising campaigns.
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.
Martha Stewart
Founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia
Martha Stewart is an Award-winning television show host, entrepreneur, and bestselling author, as well as a lifestyle expert and teacher. She is also the founder of Living Omnimedia. Millions of people rely on her as a source of “how-to” information for all aspects of everyday living, which include cooking, entertaining, gardening, home renovating, collecting, organizing, crafting, holidays, healthy living, and pets. Martha Stewart’s namesake company, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, which she founded in 1996, reaches approximately 100 million consumers across all media platforms each month with an expansive portfolio that includes award-winning magazines, bestselling books, websites and apps, television and video programming, and a live daily radio show. Born in 1941, Martha Stewart currently resides in Katonah, New York.
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About Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia: Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. (MSLO) is a provider of original “how-to” information, inspiring and engaging consumers.
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.
Anda Gansca
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Knotch
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About Knotch: Knotch is the content intelligence platform for brands. We pair performance data with consumer sentiment in real time.
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.
Erick Schwab
Co-Founder & COO of SYLO
Erick Schwab is the Co-Founder and COO 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.
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
Zoli Honig
Co-Founder of WaiveCar
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About REEF, WaiveCar: Waive’s goal is to bring the cost of mobility to zero by utilizing cutting edge ad tech.
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.
Jason Donnell
COO & Co-Founder of VidMob
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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.
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.
Ben Parr
Co-Founder and President of Octane AI
Ben Parr is a journalist, author, entrepreneur, investor, and expert on attention. Through his experience as a technology writer, venture capitalist, and prolific public speaker, Parr has coached dozens of young startups and Fortune 500 corporations on how to get attention for their products. Parr is a co-founder and managing partner of DominateFund, a venture capital firm that invests in and accelerates the growth of early-stage technology, software, and product startups through its expertise in the press, marketing, customer and user acquisition, viral products, and strategic celebrity partnerships. Previously, Parr was the co-editor and editor-at-Large of Mashable, where he wrote more than 2,400 articles on social media and technology, managed Mashable’s editorial team, and interviewed everyone from Ashton Kutcher to Mark Zuckerberg. He also served as a columnist and commentator for CNET. His work has been featured in a variety of media, including CNBC, CNN, Fox News.
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About DominateFund, Octane AI: Octane AI provides an all-in-one platform for engaging quizzes, data collection, and personalized Facebook Messenger and SMS automation.
Val Katayev
Founder & Managing Partner of MobileFuse
Val Katayev is a serial entrepreneur, having founded and led four successful startups to hyper-growth centered around digital media in display, mobile, music, search and data. Two of these tech companies, ToneMedia (now Bandsintown Amplified) and ToneFuse resulted in being acquired by Lagardère Group. In addition to success in tech, Val is a pioneer in the Marketplace Lending space as he later partnered with Prime Meridian Capital Management to help the firm grow it’s AUM from $5M to $500M in 3 years. Operating and growing with capital efficiency is where Val excels. This management style generated over $100M through profits and exits, all before taking any venture capital. While at ToneMedia, Katayev grew it to a top 3 music property according to Comscore and developed ToneTargeting, a patent pending tech that evaluates consumer demo, buying habits and hobbies based on musical tastes. In 2009, Katayev founded ToneFuse, which he grew to become the world’s largest ringtone marketing platform. Also in 2009, Katayev co-founded and laid the early foundation for MobileFuse, one of the leading mobile advertising companies that he still oversees. In 2001, Katayev founded Poise Media, an industry leader in performance and paid search marketing for 800+ clients including eBay, VistaPrint and Rhapsody, while still attending Baruch College. These days Val is an investor, board member and advisor in a number of companies. As always on the lookout for the next big project to dedicate himself to.
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About Jocalio, MobileFuse, Poise Media, Poise Ventures, Prime Meridian Capital Management: MobileFuse is a mobile-first ad network offering advanced targeting and ad serving solutions to marketers.
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.
Shaun Zacharia
Co-Founder & President of TripleLift
Prior to founding Triple Lift, Shaun led custom engineering solutions at AppNexus for the industry’s largest marketers like eBay and WPP. At AppNexus, Shaun was also critical in consulting the industry’s largest media networks including Collective and Microsoft. Shaun graduated summa cum laude from Georgia Tech with a BS in Computer Engineering.
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About TripleLift: TripleLift is the programmatic technology company for native, branded content and OTT.
Ari Lewine
Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer of TripleLift
Ari Lewine is Co-Founder of TripleLift, Inc. and serves as its Chief Strategy Officer. Ari Lewine leads. He also serves as Co-Chair of the IAB Native, Content & Social Committee at IAB. Most recently, he served as head of the performance sales team at AppNexus. He started his entrepreneurial endeavors at 17 when he purchased University Trucking. He holds a BSBA in Finance and Entrepreneurship from the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis.
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About IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau), TripleLift: TripleLift is the programmatic technology company for native, branded content and OTT.
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.
Kenan Saleh
Co-Founder and CEO of Halo Cars
Kenan Saleh is the co-founder and CEO of Halo Cars.
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About Halo Cars: Halo is an advertising technology company that allows rideshare drivers to earn additional income through rooftop digital advertising.
Faizan Bhatty
Co-Founder of Halo Cars
Faizan Bhatty is the co-founder of Halo Cars.
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About Halo Cars: Halo is an advertising technology company that allows rideshare drivers to earn additional income through rooftop digital advertising.
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
Azita Ardakani
Founder of LoveSocial
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About Honeycomb Portfolio, LoveSocial: Authentic and creative communications strategies which empower and inspire.
Lampros Kalampoukas
Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Alphonso
Lampros Kalampoukas is the Co-Founder of Alphonso.
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About Alphonso, Lucent: Alphonso is a software company that offers TV data and measurement services for brands and agencies.
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.
Josh Backer
Co Founder – President, Advertising & SVP Operations of Unified
Founded Social Suitcase in 2009 – Boutique business development and sales consulting firm specializing in social media monetization products and brand advertising. – Sold to TrafficMarketplace in March 2010 Founded DankApps in 2008 – Bay Partners funded social network application company – Donated thousands of dollars to cause based charities through the “Social Change” brand of applications Founded Teach the People in 2007 – TechCrunch40 company – fbFund grantee Emory University, Atlanta GA – Graduate Instructor, Dept. of Comparative Literature “Sick Lit.: Literature and Discourses of Illness and Disease” The Padeia School, Atlanta GA – Part-time Faculty “Pollack to Smithson: Modern and Contemporary American and European art from 1935-1975” “Art and Politics in the 20th Century”
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About Unified: Unified equips marketers with information and intelligence they need to make the best decisions about their social advertising investments.
Jason Beckerman
Co-Founder of Unified
Jason oversees all product, technology, and organizational strategy at Unified. Prior to co-founding Unified, Jason was co-founder and CEO of Social Suitcase, an innovator in the brand engagement space that was acquired by Connexus. He has held executive roles at a number of social media companies, including his tenure as co-founder and CEO of Teach The People, a Facebook Fund Grant Company and a TechCrunch 40 Finalist. Jason’s experience also extends to financial services and enterprise software, including positions at Merrill Lynch, Siebel, and Salesforce.com. At Salesforce.com he managed the release process for the largest on-demand CRM rollout in the history of the cloud at the time. Jason received a BS in Entrepreneurship and Information Systems from Quinnipiac University and a Masters in Organizational Leadership from Gonzaga University.
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About Unified, Unified: Unified equips marketers with information and intelligence they need to make the best decisions about their social advertising investments.
Barak Feldman
Co-Founder of eko
Barak Feldman is Co-Founder at Eko.
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About eko: eko is media and technology company pioneering a new medium in which stories told in live action video are shaped by viewers as they unfold.
Tal Zubalsky
Co-Founder & CPO of eko
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Eko, Tal brings his expertise and experience in interactivity, technology, design and music to make the vision a reality. Prior to starting Eko Tal served as a founding partner at 2 tech startups, oversaw design and development of numerous international web projects, and served on the creative team at McCann-Erickson.
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About eko: eko is media and technology company pioneering a new medium in which stories told in live action video are shaped by viewers as they unfold.
Jeff Chen
Co-Founder of Pixlee TurnTo
Cofounder at Pixlee TurnTo. MIT ’12, Facebook ’12, RSI ’07.
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About Pixlee: Pixlee TurnTo ia a Social UGC, Influencer Marketing, and Ratings & Reviews company.
Vickie Segar
Founder & President of Village Marketing
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About Olive Lane, Teddy & Bear, Village Made, Village Marketing, Village Studio: Village Marketing is a creative influencer marketing agency
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.
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.
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.
Rayhan Rumman
Founder of EVENTSA
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About EVENTSA, ZURI: Where experiential brand activations happen.
Tal Chalozin
CTO & Co-Founder of Innovid
Tal Chalozin is co-founder and CTO of Innovid, the leading connected TV and video advertising platform for advertisers to engage consumers across all screens and channels. Tal leads Innovid’s long-term technology vision, global product creation and implementation, and business development efforts, as well as identifying and developing emerging trends and opportunities for product innovation and digital TV/OTT collaborations. He has forged partnerships with Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, Samsung, Roku and Hulu, amongst others, to help advertisers bring interactive video to viewers everywhere. Tal is a serial entrepreneur and tireless global leader in video technology. In addition to serving as Innovid’s CTO, Tal is a board member for the IAB’s Digital Video Center of Excellence and for the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. He has been named a 2018 inductee in the American Advertising Federation’s Advertising Hall of Achievement for his significant impact on the industry via mentorship, inspiration, volunteerism and training. Previous accolades include being named a “Technology Pioneer” by the World Economic Forum, one of the “Best Young European Entrepreneurs” by Businessweek, a member of Multichannel News’ “40 Under 40” Class of 2016, and to Cynopsis Digital’s 2016 “It List.” Prior to Innovid, Tal co-founded GarageGeeks – a non-profit organization and one of Israel’s largest hacker spaces and innovation hubs boasting more than 8,000 members. Tal also served as an officer in an elite computer unit in the Israeli Air Force for over eight years where he led the development of several military products with high algorithmic complexity. Tal owns several global patents in digital video technology, and he is a regular speaker at global events, including Cannes Lion, CES, The Drum’s Programmatic Punch, IAB, MWC, NAB, TVOT, AdExchanger’s Programmatic I/O, Broadcasting & Cable’s Advanced TV, Wired Magazine’s NEXTFEST, Le Web’s Digital Innovation Conference, Ars Electronica, and eConsultancy’s Creative Programmatic.
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About Garagegeeks, Innovid: Innovid is the only independent omni-channel advertising and analytics platform built for television.
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.
Oren Netzer
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of cClearly, Inc.
Prior to founding CClearly, Oren was Co-Founder and CEO of DoubleVerify, which created the ad verification category in 2008. Oren grew DoubleVerify to become a global leader with over 100 employees, $46m of venture capital and hundreds of customers, including 6 of the top 10 online marketers. Oren led adoption of ad verification in the industry to become a must have for every major marketer and led acceptance and promotion by major advertiser, ad agency and publisher trade organizations. Oren received the distinguished 2012 Technology Pioneers Award by World Economic Forum in Davos and is an inventor of multiple patents in the digital marketing space.
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About cClearly, Inc.: cClearly is a marketing analytics and optimization provider that helps marketers increase revenues and decrease cost per acquisition
Joshua Abram
Co-Founder of Dstillery
Joshua Abram is the Co-Founder of Dstillery, Integral Ad Science, and NeueHouse. He is also the Founder & Co-CEO at TMRW Life Sciences, Inc. and Co-Founder, Partner at Coriolis Ventures.
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About Coriolis Ventures, Dstillery, Integral Ad Science, NeueHouse, TMRW Life Sciences: Dstillery is the leading custom audience solutions company, empowering brands and their agencies to maximize the value of customer data.
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.
Scott Young
Co-Founder/ Chief Product Officer of Transmit.Live
Scott Young is Co-founder of Transmit.Live. A veteran of the digital video technology space, Scott has built and contributed to the growth of tech startups from seed stage to IPO and exit.
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About Pitchmob, Transmit.Live: The first ever live video marketplace for large scale broadcasters and advertisers.
Duke Barnett
Co-Founder & President of Transmit.Live
Duke Barnett is the Co-Founder and President of Transmit.Live.
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About Transmit.Live: The first ever live video marketplace for large scale broadcasters and advertisers.
Kunal Gupta
Founder & CEO of Polar
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About Polar: Polar provides digital media technology to publishers and advertisers.
Alex Bornyakov
Co-Founder of Adtelligent Inc.
Alex Bornyakov is the Co-Founder at Adtelligent.
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About Adtelligent Inc., Intersog, WannaBiz: Adtelligent Inc. is a sell side ad technology company providing holistic demand management and intermediation solutions for publishers.
Jesse Walden
Co-Founder of Mine
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About a16z crypto, Mediachain, Mine: Mine is building tools and protocols to realize a future of decentralized media.
Aaron Iba
Founder of Symmetry Group
Aaron Iba is the founder of Symmetry Group.
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Fred D’Alessandro
Founder and CEO of Diversified Systems
Before founding Diversified, Fred worked as a broadcast engineer, and it was then that his fascination with technology and new applications began. This interest in applying technology to communications problems led him to seek a wide variety of projects that covered the full spectrum of needs in the communications industry. His vision was to build a world-class design and integration team that would offer a wide variety of experience from multiple disciplines. This is Diversified’s edge—using our varied experiences to design unique solutions for our clients’ unique needs, both nationally and internationally. Fred’s current responsibilities include corporate planning, strategic market development, creating and maintaining partnerships, overseeing operations, and managing customer and manufacturer relationships. With more than two decades of experience in the executive management of project system integration, Fred has the knowledge and skills needed to keep Diversified at the forefront of the systems integration industry.
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About Diversified Systems: Diversified Systems, Diversified Media Group, and Skyweb Digital Media are now unified as one company, Diversified.
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.
Joshua Orbach
Co-Founder of Swag.com
Joshua Orbach is a Co-Founder 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.
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.
Harm Lyall
Co-Founder and CTO of Pollen
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About Pollen: Pollen helps small online retailers acquire new users more cheaply and easily than Google or Facebook.
Trevor Guthrie
Co-Founder of Giant Spoon
Trevor Guthrie is a big-ideas guy, having spent his career repositioning companies as future-pointing brands with a one-two punch of sky’s-the-limit thinking and savvy execution. Prior to co-founding Giant Spoon, Guthrie was the East Coast director of Ignition Factory, a creative catalyst unit at Omnicom’s OMD, where he led a team of specialists to dream up and produce first-to-market advertising campaigns for Showtime, Levi’s, GE, PepsiCo, FedEx, and others. He was also the key architect behind Spotify’s Music Apps Hack Weekend in 2012 and GE’s incubator program in 2011 and 2012. Before joining OMD, Guthrie worked at Blue Sky, a boutique agency in his hometown of Atlanta, and Boston’s Arnold Worldwide, and held marketing roles with Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, Microsoft, and DreamWorks.A Boston University grad, Trevor resides in Brooklyn, New York.
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About Giant Spoon: Giant Spoon is a marketing strategy and innovation agency that provides short- and long-term marketing and business planning.
Brian Rifkin
Co-Founder and SVP Strategic Partnerships of JW Player
At JW Player Brian is focused on driving growth through strategic partnerships and leads the JW Player Demand team, working with publishers and brands to maximize advertising revenue. He has worked in the online space since 1997, and until 2007 served as president of A Simple Internet, a media services firm he founded in 2001 specializing in performance-based marketing. Previously, he was senior vice president of Business Development at About.com. He holds a BS in business administration from the University of Pittsburgh.
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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.
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.
Scott Kolb
Co-Founder of Longitude
Scott Kolb is the co-founder of Slader.
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About Longitude: Longitude provides programmatic advertising services and solutions.
Boris Abaev
Co-Founder of Bidease
Co-Founder @bidease Investment advisor @betastagecapital Board member @rocket10 Father of 3 and an Entrepreneur, Angel investor – Love Startups and building them!
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About Bidease, Cashsquare, Rocket10: Bidease is a mobile DSP that provides advertisers with access to the entire mobile ecosystem through mobile publishers and exchanges.
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.
Bob Verrico
Co Founder / Executive Chairman of InvestingChannel, Inc.
Bob Verrico is Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of InvestingChannel.
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About Giant Step Strategies, LLC, InvestingChannel, Inc., OspreyMedia: Our mission is to be most innovative and scalable marketing platform in financial services.
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.
David Replogle
Founder of PostCreator
Founder at PostCreator
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About PostCreator, Squarespace: Post Creator is a social media design tool that enables users to brand posts and ads.
Josh Walsh
Co-Founder of AdTheorent
Josh Walsh is co-founded AdTheorent, Inc. in 2010 and serves as its President of Media and served as its Chief Strategy Officer. Mr. Walsh started his career at a Search Marketing start-up named Catalyst Online, where he spend much of his time on the Procter and Gamble account. He subsequently worked at Media Contacts, where he focused on the technology that powers DSP, SSP and RTB systems and also studied these platform’s ideation from search models. He graduated from UMass Amherst’s Isenberg School of Management with a bachelor’s degree in Marketing and Information Technologies studies.
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About AdTheorent: AdTheorent’s is a machine learning technology powers predictive targeting, predictive creative, and self-learning insights.
Brandon Perlman
Founder of Social Studies, Inc.
Brandon Perlman is a content-focused marketing strategist and entrepreneur in New York’s burgeoning startup scene. He is currently the CEO and Founder of Social Studies, Inc. Previously, he was the Director of Marketing Strategy for Hearst Digital Media where he focused on innovation in the digital publishing field. Prior to that he was the Digital Director for DEPARTURES magazine, where he developed the online business for Departures.com centered around luxury travel and lifestyle. Brandon began his career at American Express and holds a B.A. in Electronic Media from the George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
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About Social Studies, Inc., StyleCaster: The influencer agency and micro-influencer marketing technology for next-generation digital marketers.
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.
Robert Pines
Chairman, CEO & Founder of kgb
Robert Pines is the Chairman & Founder at kgb. Robert Pines is Chairman of kgb, which he co-founded in 1992. Robert has directed the growth of kgb from five employees at its launch to more than 7,000 employees today, worldwide. He is based in New York City. Before founding kgb, Robert worked at Lehman Brothers in the investment banking department and at the management consulting firm Corporate Decisions, Inc., which is now part of Mercer Consulting. Robert holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics, cum laude, from Harvard College. An MBA with honors from The Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania.
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About kgb: kgb is a privately-held, New York-based company that provides its users with directory assistance and enhanced information services.
Nick Slavin
President and Co-Founder of Curacity
Nick Slavin, Co-Founder and President has a background in real estate and hospitality private equity. Curacity launched in 2015 and is headquartered in Stanford, CT and New York City.
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About Curacity: Curacity is a data analytics company focused on the travel sector.
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.
Auwal Odidi
President, Co-Founder of Waypoint Media
Auwal Odidi has 6 years of experience in business development and marketing, and has held positions at two Fortune 500 companies. At the age of 15, Auwal founded a then-leading gaming publisher which went on to become a well-known name in the industry; at the age of 16 he attempted to go pro in Counter Strike 1.6, but sadly only made it to CAL-m. He holds an MBA from Schulich School of Business.
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About Waypoint Media: Waypoint Media makes large scale, targeted advertising through eSports and Gaming content creators possible.
Kevin Hsu
VP. Optimization, Co-Founder of Waypoint Media
Kevin was part of AppNexus’ Optimization Team before Waypoint, prototyping and developing advanced yield optimization products for the company’s largest clients, including CPX and Microsoft. Legend has it that when he’s not busy massaging meaning out of an endless sea of numbers he can be found in Union Square doing the robot. He holds a B.S. in Digital Electronics and Controls Engineering from Harvey Mudd College.
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About Waypoint Media: Waypoint Media makes large scale, targeted advertising through eSports and Gaming content creators possible.
Auwal Odidi
President, Co-Founder of Waypoint Media
Auwal Odidi has 6 years of experience in business development and marketing, and has held positions at two Fortune 500 companies. At the age of 15, Auwal founded a then-leading gaming publisher which went on to become a well-known name in the industry; at the age of 16 he attempted to go pro in Counter Strike 1.6, but sadly only made it to CAL-m. He holds an MBA from Schulich School of Business.
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About Waypoint Media: Waypoint Media makes large scale, targeted advertising through eSports and Gaming content creators possible.
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.
John Lemp
Chairman, Founder & CEO of Powr
Revcontent Founder, John Lemp is an entrepreneur who has built two internet companies from the ground up into multi-million dollar businesses, and all with $0 in funding. John graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology with a Bachelors of Science in Information Technology. In 2013, John founded Revcontent, a content recommendation network. In 2018, John founded Powr OTT, the new standard in video advertising. He also is the Managing Partner at NextFund Capital Group.
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About NextFund, Powr: Powr is a video marketplace and syndication platform that connects video creators with premium publishers across the web.
Leland Maschmeyer
Co-Founder, Board Of Directors of Collins Design
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About Chobani, Collins Design, River Search, School of Visual Arts – MFA Design, Sway, The World Economic Forum: COLLINS: is a brand and experience design firm based in New York City. We have worked with many of the world’s leading brands including
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.
Andreas Spartalis
Executive Conversion Director & Co-Founder of Wunderkind (formerly BounceX)
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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.
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
Andy Stackpole
Co Founder of Individual Digital
Andy is a co-founder of Individual Digital, Inc. and has twenty-four years of mergers and acquisitions experience in the consumer products industry. Most recently, he is the founder and Managing Partner of Trinity Investment Partners, a Connecticut-based private equity firm. Prior to founding Trinity, he was a Managing Director in the Investment Banking Division of Merrill Lynch where he focused on mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance for many of the world’s leading companies in the consumer products industry. Andy was also a Managing Director with Bear Stearns, where he was responsible for mergers and acquisitions in the consumer products and media sectors. The majority of Andy’s career was spent at SBC Warburg (now UBS) and its predecessors, where he was co-head of the U.S. Mergers & Acquisitions department. Andy was a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, where he was awarded an International Affairs Fellowship. He holds a BA from Trinity College, an MPA from the Kennedy School at Harvard, and an MBA (as a Fellow Nominee) from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania where he lectures frequently on Corporate Finance.
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About Individual Digital: Individual Digital, a digital media company, develops an online advertising platform delivering targeted advertising and marketing messages.
