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 United States based CEO’ operating in the Publishing 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.
Alex Chung
Co-Founder & CEO of Giphy
Alex Chung is currently the founder and CEO of GIPHY. His latest startups include Artspace, a leading ecommerce destination for contemporary art, The Fridge, a private social network acquired by Google, and General Displays a GE venture developing GE’s next generation of HDTVs. He has also directed media technology for MTV, NBC, Comcast, Charter, and managed future technologies for Paul Allen’s R&D lab. He was one of the early architects of interactive television and started his career as a hardware engineer at Intel. He was named on Business Insider’s Top 25 most influential technologists in New York and has degrees in philosophy, electrical/computer engineering, and graphic design.
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About Giphy: Giphy is an online database and search engine that allows users to search, share, and discover GIFs.
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Tomas Franzen
CEO of Bonnier
Tomas Franzén is the CEO for Bonnier AB since March 2014. Prior to that he has been CEO of leading Swedish cable and broadband provider Com Hem from 2008 to 2014. Before that, he was CEO of Eniro for four years and between 2002 and 2004, was CEO for Internet provider Song Networks. He has some 20 years of experience as a CEO in both publicly traded and private companies.
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About Bonnier: Bonnier is a media group working in TV, daily newspapers, business and trade press, magazines, film, books, radio and digital media.
Blake Lawrence
CEO and Co-Founder of Opendorse
Blake Lawrence is the CEO and co-founder of Opendorse, the athlete endorsement company. More than 75,000 athletes use Opendorse to understand, build, and monetize their name, image, and likeness (NIL) value. Prior to Opendorse, Blake co-founded Hurrdat, a social media agency, in Lincoln, Nebraska. Over four years, Hurrdat grew from two to twenty-five employees, and was acquired in July 2014 by B2 Interactive. Prior to his journey as an entrepreneur, Blake was a member of the Nebraska football team. Lawrence was a highly recruited linebacker, who started at Linebacker in 2008 and 2009, before his career was cut short due to recurring concussions. Off the football field, Blake earned his marketing degree in just 2.5 years, and received his MBA from Nebraska in 2011.
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About Opendorse: Opendorse operates the leading SaaS-enabled Marketplace in the athlete endorsement industry.
C.J. Bowden
CEO of Turgo
CJ is currently CEO and co-founder of Turgo and Eyez.GG. His experience includes building enterprise value at high-growth public companies (Yahoo! and Criteo), scaling small and mid-sized organizations, and ramping lean start-ups and distressed businesses through capital raises and efficient operations. He brings extensive gaming expertise and mobile gaming networks having built the U.S. advertising business for Miniclip (now owned by TenCent). He has strategic leadership and tactical execution knowledge across sales, business development, marketing, operations, and change management.
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About Turgo: Turgo is a key player in the video advertising and distribution industry.
Sharad Devarajan
Co-Founder & CEO of Graphic India
Sharad Devarajan is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Graphic India Pte. Ltd. since 2011. For Sharad, Graphic India is the culmination of his lifelong dream to launch characters, heroes and stories that tap into the unique creativity and culture of India but appeal to audiences worldwide. In the same way the West has created superheroes or Japan launched anime, Graphic India is transforming the perception of India in animation from being an ‘outsourcer” to being ‘the source.’ Sharad overseas all aspects of the business and has had nearly two decades of experience in the character entertainment industry. Sharad is the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Liquid Comics, an entertainment company that uses the medium of graphic novel storytelling to develop original content for various media platforms. Sharad was previously the Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Publisher of Virgin Comics LLC a company he co-founded, with Sir Richard Branson, authors Deepak Chopra, Gotham Chopra and filmmaker Shekhar Kapur. Sharad is also a Producer / Executive Producer on a number of theatrical live-action film and television projects in development including The Leaves with Summit Entertainment; Ramayan 3392AD with Mandalay Entertainment; The Sadhu with producer Mark Canton (‘300’ ‘Immortals’); Dominion: Dinosaurs Versus Aliens with filmmaker Barry Sonnenfeld (‘Men in Black’ trilogy); Coming of Rage, with filmmaker Wes Craven (‘Scream’); Gamekeeper, with filmmaker Guy Ritchie (‘Sherlock Holmes’); and Marked, with Emmy-Award Winning writer James Manos Jr. (Sopranos, Dexter); Devarajan also worked with filmmaker John Woo (Mission Impossible 2; Face Off) as Executive Producer on the animated web series, “John Woo Presents: 7 Brothers. In 2010, Sharad led a project with the Open Hands Initiative, to bring together a group of American and Middle Eastern students with disabilities to work together and create a new superhero that reflected their shared challenges & values. The superhero, “Silver Scorpion,” received worldwide acclaim for promoting advocacy for the rights of people with disabilities in the Middle East. President Clinton honored the students at the Clinton Global Initiative, stating that the comic book “will help to establish trust and understanding between cultures, to empower young people with disabilities.” In 2004, Sharad worked with Marvel as the creator of a new reinvention of Spider-Man as an Indian boy growing up in Mumbai, transforming “Peter Parker” into “Pavitr Prabhakar”. Unlike traditional translations of western characters into foreign markets, the new series, “Spider-Man: India” was heralded as one of the industry’s first “trans-creations.” For his activities, Sharad was featured as CNNfn’s ‘Maverick in The Morning’ and covered in numerous media including WSJ, Time, Newsweek, New York Times, Fox News, CNN, and NPR’s Fresh Air. He has been a speaker at various events including, TEDX Gateway, Fortune Magazine’s Global Forum, FICCI and Harvard Business School. Sharad holds a BFA from Syracuse University and an MBA from Columbia University where he is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School teaching, Media Marketing and Entrepreneurship; Transmedia & Transcreation; and Just Capital & Cause Driven Marketing.
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About Columbia University in the City of New York, Graphic India, Liquid Comics: Mobile Content & Character Entertainment Company
Andrew Wilson
Chief Executive Officer of Electronic Arts
As CEO of Electronic Arts, Andrew Wilson has aligned the company around three core strategic pillars: putting players first, driving a digital transformation and operating as one team. During Andrew’s tenure as CEO, EA has launched groundbreaking new games and services, reached record player engagement levels across its global franchises, and transformed into one of the world’s leading digital entertainment companies. Andrew has held several positions during his over 15 years at EA, providing leadership on product and brand development for both packaged goods and digital services. Prior to being appointed CEO in 2013, Andrew served as executive vice president of EA SPORTS and Origin where he oversaw all aspects of the EA SPORTS business and development, as well as EA’s digital PC service. Andrew has also led EA’s Online Organization overseeing the direct-to-consumer business, Asia Online Publishing as well as the EA studio in Seoul, Korea. In addition, he previously served as vice president and executive producer of all EA SPORTS FIFA games, growing the property into one of the largest videogame franchises of all time.
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About Electronic Arts: Electronic Arts delivers games, content, and online services for internet-connected consoles, PCs, mobile phones, and tablets.
Matthew Milner
Founder, CEO of Crowdability
Matt is a Media & Technology executive with a Wall Street background, and a history of entrepreneurial success. A descendant of Russian immigrants, Matt’s ancestors arrived penniless in the New World and survived by peddling clothes on pushcarts. His great grandfather eventually scraped together enough capital to start a business selling an innovative new product: socks with elastic. With that one small business, he was able to provide for his growing family. Initially, Matt didn’t follow in his family’s footsteps of entrepreneurship. He headed to Wall Street — to global investment banks such as Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers — to learn how to invest and profit from the financial markets. By the time he was 30, however, he heard the call to start his own company. His first business struggled. Matt burned through his savings and eventually failed. He started a second company that also struggled initially, but this time, he figured out how to “pivot” and change course — and eventually, this company was acquired for a small sum. Relying on this small bankroll and the lessons from his failures and successes, he launched his third startup, a social media company. Finally, he struck gold. Hearst, the global media conglomerate, acquired the company for millions. After joining Hearst’s team to help launch and grow their online businesses, he further codified his rules for building successful early-stage companies. In addition to his work at Hearst, he became a mentor to young technology companies, helping them avoid the struggles that he himself encountered. He also started a venture capital fund and became an investor. In 2013, thrilled by the JOBS Act and the promise of equity crowdfunding to allow a broader range of people to invest in startups, Matt teamed up with Wayne Mulligan to found Crowdability. He wanted to share the knowledge he’d acquired over his career — from his years on Wall Street, to his experiences building, mentoring and investing in startups — to show ordinary citizens how to invest and profit from startups. Growing up, Matt heard inspiring stories about how his great grandfather provided for the family thanks to the power of small business and a little bit of innovation. With Crowdability, Matt aims to spread similar stories — and the power of startups — to everyone. Matt holds a B.A. from Cornell University, and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
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About Crowdability: Crowdability is the source for data, research and education on the emerging equity crowdfunding industry.
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
Liad Agmon
CEO of Dynamic Yield
Liad Agmon joined Dynamic Yield Liad as CEO in 2012.Agmon is a serial entrepreneur with rich experience as a startup founder and as a Fortune 500 executive. He founded information security vendor Onigma (acquired by McAfee) and social search company Delver (acquired by Sears Holdings). Following Delver’s acquisition, Liad served as a VP of New Services at Sears Holdings and on the board of its Home Electronics and Outlets business units. Liad served as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Bessemer Venture Partners and taught at the Entrepreneurship MBA program in Tel-Aviv University and at the Zell Program of IDC Herzliya. He holds a BA Cum Laude from Tel-Aviv University in Computer Sciences and Film Studies.
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About Dynamic Yield: Dynamic Yield helps companies quickly deliver and test personalized, optimized, and synchronized digital customer interactions.
Anthony Morrison
CEO / Founder of Morrison Publishing, LLC
Anthony Morrison created the Success Connection in order to create a more rewarding relationship with his students. While the Internet is a great thing it also removes personal interaction which is something Anthony really enjoy. Through Anthony Morrison’s Success Connection training he is able to get to know his students, listen to their comments.
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About Morrison Publishing, LLC: Morrison Publishing provides digital training products for people around the world created by founder and CEO Anthony Morrison.
John R. Adler
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Scribd
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About Scribd: Scribd is an unlimited reading subscription that offers access to books, audiobooks, magazine articles, documents and more.
Stephen Gill
Co-Founder & CEO of Tiller
Stephen Gill is a visionary technology entrepreneur and leader, whose passion for the digital marketing space inspired him to found Tiller in 2015. His passion? To make advertising better. Stephen has spent the last ten years building yield optimization platforms and tools to help publishers maximize advertising revenue. Gill’s first foray in adtech began during college at Rowan University, where he built NoLimit Interactive Media, a digital marketing agency specializing in search, performance marketing and lead generation for a portfolio of major brands. The organization started from his dorm room and quickly grew into into a full service agency. The experience led him to found Red Online Marketing Group, a diversified technology and digital media organization. Today, the organization leverages its technology with hundreds of publishers. Their self-service ad platform helps advertisers to deploy and optimize complex digital marketing campaigns across multiple channels. The thrill of helping publishers better monetize their properties drove Stephen to launch Tiller, a patent-pending native advertising platform for publishers to manage, measure, and maximize their native advertising across multiple content recommendation partners. Stephen’s influence was also instrumental to the growth of digital marketing company Leadnomics, where he is a co-founder. His leadership landed the organization spot #26 on the Inc. 500 list of fastest growing companies. Stephen is also an active angel and advisor to over 20 technology and e-commerce companies, which includes three exits. Stephen is a thought leader in advertising technology, digital marketing, and entrepreneurship. He is a member of the Young Entrepreneur Council, Vistage, and an active attendee of Summit Series. When he’s not working, Steve enjoys fitness, food (paleo) and travel — his latest adventures include Thailand, white water kayaking and biking through the Redwoods.
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About 50onRed, Leadnomics, RightAction, Tiller: Tiller is the leading optimization platform for native and recommended content.
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.
Strauss Zelnick
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Take-Two Interactive Software
Strauss Zelnick, a partner in ZelnickMedia since 2001, became Chairman of Take-Two in March 2007 and Chief Executive Officer in January 2011. Mr. Zelnick is currently Chairman of ITN Networks and serves on the boards of directors of Naylor LLC, Alloy, Inc. and Starwood Property Trust, Inc. In August 2013, Mr. Zelnick was elected Vice Chairman of the Entertainment Software Association, the interactive entertainment industry’s trade association. In 2014, Mr. Zelnick was elected Chairman of the Entertainment Software Association, the interactive entertainment industry’s trade association. Prior to forming ZelnickMedia, Mr. Zelnick was President and Chief Executive Officer of BMG Entertainment, a $4.7 billion music and entertainment company. Mr. Zelnick’s appointment as President and Chief Executive Officer of BMG Entertainment followed his tenure as President and Chief Executive Officer of the company’s North American business unit from 1994 through 1998. Before joining BMG Entertainment, Mr. Zelnick was President and Chief Executive Officer of Crystal Dynamics, a leading producer and distributor of interactive game software. Prior to that, he spent four years as President and Chief Operating Officer of 20th Century Fox, where he managed all aspects of the worldwide motion picture and distribution business. Previously, he spent three years at Vestron Inc. as a senior executive, and rose to become President and Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Zelnick also served as Vice President, International Television for Columbia Pictures. Mr. Zelnick holds an MBA and a JD from Harvard University and a BA from Wesleyan University. He is an associate member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, has served on the Board of Directors of the Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America and is a Trustee Emeritus of Wesleyan University.
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About Take-Two Interactive Software, ZMC: Take-Two Interactive Software is an American publisher, developer, and distributor of video games.
Chang Kim
CEO of Tapas Media
Chang Kim is the CEO of Tapas Media.
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About Tapas Media: Creator platform for “Daily Story Snacks” — bite-sized comics and novels
Jon Feltheimer
CEO of Lionsgate
Jon Feltheimer is the Chief Executive Officer at Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. and Lions Gate Entertainment, Inc. Feltheimer serves as the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Chairman of Lions Gate UK Limited an affiliate of TV Guide Networks, Inc. Feltheimer serves as Chief Executive Officer of Lions Gate Entertainment, Inc. He serves as Chief Executive Officer of Lionsgate at Lions Gate Films Inc. He serves as an Advisor of ZeniMax Media Inc. He served as Chief Executive Officer of Lions Gate Films Corp. He worked for Sony Pictures Entertainment from 1991 to 1999. He was the Founder and President of TriStar Television from 1991 to 1993. He served as President of Columbia TriStar Television from 1993 to 1995, President of Columbia TriStar Television Group from 1995 to 1999 and Executive Vice President of Sony Pictures Entertainment from 1997 to 1999. He served as Head of Sony Entertainment Television. He served as an Architect of Sony Pictures Entertainment. He served as the Co-Chairman of Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. from June 30, 2005 to February 2, 2012 and has been its Non-Independent Director since January 2000. He serves as a Director of Celestial Tiger Entertainment. He has been a Director of Telltale, Incorporated since February 24, 2015. He has been a Director of Grupo Televisa, S.A.B. since April 2015. He serves as a Member of Advisory Board of Lions Gate Entertainment, Inc. He served as a Director of Lions Gate Films Corp. Feltheimer served as a Director of CinemaNow Corporation. He served as a Member of Advisory Board of JumpTV Inc. He served as a Member of Advisory Board of EastWest VentureGroup. Feltheimer has Bachelor’s Degree in Economics with honors from Washington University.
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About Lionsgate: Lionsgate is a premier next generation global content leader.
Rich Antoniello
CEO & Founder of Complex
Rich Antoniello joined the company as CEO in 2003 and quickly established Complex magazine into a profitable powerhouse known for delivering a sharp editorial blend of pop culture and style trends. Recognizing that consumers were increasingly migrating online for content, Antoniello oversaw the company’s expansion onto the web with the launch of Complex.com. In 2007, Antoniello formed Complex Media, Inc., a collective of 110 sites that forms a formidable hub for one of the most hard-to-reach demographics – young males – and one primed to make purchasing decisions.
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About Complex: Complex is an online magazine that features articles about music, styles, pop culture, sports, and sneakers.
Suren Markosian
Co-Founder & CEO of Epic
Suren is the CEO and co-founder of Epic!, the first all-you-can-read e-book service built specifically for school-aged readers. He is a successful, serial entrepreneur and founder of several consumer tech startups, including CrowdStar, which rose to become one of the largest social gaming companies with over 200M users, second only to Zynga. Having created and successfully scaled large entertainment and e-commerce businesses to serve hundreds of millions of customers, Markosian is an expert in product design, gamification, technology, scalability, consumer growth and marketing.
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About Epic: Epic is an internet company that specializes in books, eBooks learning, and educational technology.
Ross Levinsohn
CEO of Sports Illustrated
Ross Levinsohn has always pushed for growth and innovation in the technology and media spaces. After getting his first taste of digital media at CBS Sportsline, he went on to become one of the most sought-after leaders in the industry. In his time as the President of Fox Interactive Media, he focused on digital engagement with the company’s web properties. As the interim CEO of Yahoo, he oversaw the internet company’s $20 billion market cap. As CEO of Guggenheim Digital Media, he managed Billboard Magazine, the Hollywood Reporter, and AdWeek. After serving as the CEO of the LA Times and the digital arm of Tribune Publishing, he’s been a first-hand witness to changing trends in media consumption. He has experience on both sides of the camera, having served as an on-air contributor for CNBC. This executive is currently the CEO of The Arena Group (formerly Maven) and Sports Illustrated Media. This organization is expected to further empower some of the most famous brands in the world and bringing in a leader like Levinsohn, who has the versatility and experience to handle this demanding job, was an easy decision to make. In addition to being CEO of The Arena Group, he remains an active investor in the digital space. He supports more than 30 enterprises in both early- and growth-stages. He’s also a strategic advisor and consultant. He works with well-known media companies to help staff align their content and boost viewership. Whether it’s a small private business or a huge public conglomerate, Levinsohn understands how companies can adjust their operations to meet an audience’s expectations. Ross Levinsohn earned his bachelor’s degree in Communications from American University.
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About Sports Illustrated, Sports Illustrated, The Arena Group, The Boston Consulting Group, Whisper Advisors: Sports Illustrated provides breaking news, conversation and original reporting/insights on all sports.
David Bailey
CEO & Co-Founder of BTC Media
As Chief Executive Officer of BTC Media LLC, David Bailey is an industry leader in the digital currency and blockchain space. After founding yBitcoin, the world’s leading publication about digital currency, David launched BTC Media, a corporate group including Bitcoin Magazine (bitcoinmagazine.com), the world’s first information outlet and news desk dedicated to digital currency, and Distributed (Distributed.com), a leading source for banking and corporate information on distributed ledger technology.
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About Bitcoin Magazine, BTC Media, BTC Media, Distributed, UTXO Management, yBitcoin: BTC Media is Bitcoin media group, providing education and information through its family of products and 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.
Gary Liu
CEO of South China Morning Post
Gary is the CEO of Digg, a New York based content discovery startup. He joined Digg originally as Chief Operating Officer, leading revenue strategy and operations across all functions. Previously, Gary was Head of Spotify Labs, where he led emerging technologies and new business strategies for Spotify’s global markets. Prior to that, he was Spotify’s Global Director of Ad Product Strategy. Before Spotify, Gary was the Director of Sales Strategy and Operations at AOL (Patch), and was a business and sales operations leader at both Clickable and Google. Born in California, Gary grew up in Taiwan and New Zealand, but has called the US Northeast his home for the past 19 years. He now lives in New York City with his wife Katrina, a pediatric dentist, 2 cats, and a dog. Ironically, he is extremely allergic to animals, and deathly afraid of dentists. Gary holds a BA in Economics from Harvard University.
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About South China Morning Post: South China Morning Post is an internationally-recognized English language newspaper in Hong Kong.
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.
Lon Otremba
Chief Executive Officer and Director of Bidtellect – Native Intelligence
Lon Otremba joined Bidtellect as its Chief Executive Officer and Director in January, 2014. Mr. Otremba leads all aspects of the Company’s efforts, working closely with the management team and the Company’s board of directors. With over 20 years’ experience in media, Mr. Otremba is a veteran operating executive and adviser in the Internet publishing, mobile, and broadcast music industries and a well-known pioneer in interactive media. From April 2013 to December 2013, Mr. Otremba was CEO, North America of Beintoo SpA, a mobile engagement technology company based in Milan, Italy which he joined after selling them a portfolio of mobile ad technology products he helped develop and patent while he was CEO of Tylted, a social gaming community on the mobile web, from 2011 to early 2013. Tylted attracted more than 10 million unique monthly visitors, and generated more than half a billion mobile page views each month according to Comscore at the time the company was sold in early 2013. Before joining Tylted, Mr. Otremba served as Chairman and CEO of Access 360 Media from 2007 until 2011, expanding its digital TV network to stadiums and entertainment venues worldwide. Prior to Access 360, he served as CEO of Muzak, guiding the company’s transformation into the world’s largest provider of commercial music services with 80% market share in 2005. Before that, he served as Executive Vice President of AOL’s Interactive Marketing Group, shaping the media giant’s online advertising strategies and directing a comprehensive, aggressive evaluation and re-build that helped to re-establish AOL as a leader in interactive media, create alignment in their sales and operations teams, and re-start revenue growth. Mr. Otremba was also the founding Chief Operating Officer and President of Mail.com, and before that the founding Executive Vice President of CNET Networks. Over the course of his career he has served on a number of corporate and industry boards, including the Executive Committee of the IAB. He is a frequent commentator on interactive marketing and operating strategies. Mr. Otremba is a graduate of the Broad School of Business from Michigan State University, with a BA, majoring in Marketing and Economics.
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About Bidtellect – Native Intelligence: Bidtellect is the leading buy side Native platform built for marketers.
Chandler Tuttle
CEO of Freethink Media
Chandler Tuttle is a partner at Freethink, a digital media company based in New York City and Washington, DC. Tuttle previously served as the Creative Director for the Oslo Freedom Forum, a yearly international gathering of world leaders, journalists, activists and entrepreneurs, described by The Economist as “a spectacular Human Rights Festival, fast on its way to becoming the Davos of Human Rights.” Prior to that, he spent two years as the Assistant to the President at Focus Features before leaving to write and direct the short film 2081, based on Kurt Vonnegut’s acclaimed classic “Harrison Bergeron”. Tuttle currently resides in New York City with his wife and child.
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About Freethink Media: Freethink Media is a creative media company for the people and ideas that are changing their world.
Dan Birdwhistell
Founder and CEO of Studio Publishing
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About Studio Publishing: Studio Publishing allows users to connect, find and share desired products through a portfolio of online communities.
David Smooke
Founder & CEO of HackerNoon
David Smooke is the Founder and CEO of HackerNoon, the technology publishing platform. He is a writer, designer, and entrepreneur.
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About ArtMap Inc dba HackerNoon, HackerNoon: Hacker Noon is a technology publishing platform.
Tim O’Reilly
Founder, Chairman & CEO of O’Reilly
Tim O’Reilly is the founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media Inc. Considered by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world, O’Reilly Media also hosts conferences on technology topics, including the O’Reilly Open Source Convention, Strata: The Business of Data, the Velocity Conference on Web Performance and Operations, and many others. Tim’s blog, the O’Reilly Radar “watches the alpha geeks” to determine emerging technology trends, and serves as a platform for advocacy about issues of importance to the technical community. Tim is also a partner at O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, O’Reilly’s early stage venture firm, and is on the board of Safari Books Online, PeerJ, Code for America, and Maker Media, which was recently spun out from O’Reilly Media. Maker Media’s Maker Faire has been compared to the West Coast Computer Faire, which launched the personal computer revolution.
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About O’Reilly, Oreilly AlphaTech Ventures, Oreilly AlphaTech Ventures, POPVOX: O’Reilly provides technology and business training, knowledge, and insight to help companies succeed.
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.
Caroline Ghosn
CEO & Founder of Levo
There is evidence that Caroline’s company Levo quietly closed down operations leaving invoices to vendors and creditors unpaid in 2019. As of 2019 and 2020, the company could not be reached when contacted for payment.
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About Levo: Levo is the largest and fastest-growing professional network for millennials.
Tom Florio
Founder / CEO of ENTtech
Tom Florio has spent his career in the entertainment and media industries becoming known as an innovative digital powerhouse. He began his foray into these two sectors initially with print media and thereafter evolving in cohesion with the realms digital media world. Some of the roles he has held include: President of The New Yorker (1994), Senior Vice President Publishing Director of Vogue Magazine (2002-2005) and Publishing Director of Vogue Magazine, Teen Vogue, Bon Appetite and Condé Taste Traveler (2009-2010). As the media world became increasingly digitized, Florio guided magazines like GQ, The New Yorker and Vanity Fair to an increase in both circulation and earnings. Indeed, under his direction at Condé Nast Florio was quickly catapulted into the fashion industry’s highest level. In 2014 he became CEO of Advanstar Fashion Group (a platform with 50+ trade magazines offering media and marketing solutions for the fashion, licensing, life sciences, and powersports sectors). While at the helm, the firm founded Shopthefloor.com which became the fashion world’s most substantive business network, with digital access to showrooms and offering top e-commerce functionality to producer. Florioalso led America’s largest apparel trade show (Magic) to acquiesce 7000 participating brands completing approximately $600 million dollars of business during the three-day conventions. In 2017 Florio founded ENTtech Media Group LLC where he is CEO. This entertainment-tech firm develops web- based written and video content, circulating it to large audiences via social architecture. PAPER media – its signature brand – is an invaluable avenue into wide ranging niches within the popular culture industry, such as: art, fashion, film, music and nightlife. PAPER media has thus become a solid structure with the capacity to support ENTtech’s broad media platform.
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About ENTtech: ENTtech is an entertainment technology ecosystem that delivers a shareable entertainment to a diversed group of audiences.
Jessica Ewing
Founder & CEO of Literati
Jessica is a graduate of Stanford University, where she studied computer science, philosophy, linguistics and math. She spent five years building consumer products at Google, and was featured in Fast Company Magazine as one of Google’s “12 Most Innovative Minds.” She is also a creative writer, university lecturer, outdoor wilderness guide, and certified in emergency medicine. She believes the best way to learn is to follow whatever passion arises organically, which informs the product design of Literati.
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About Literati: Literati is a curated book subscription service that brings profound stories and impactful discussions monthly to every reader
Shannon Terry
Founder & CEO of 247 Sports
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About 247 Sports, ComicBook, Pop Culture Media: 247 Sports is an online platform for basketball and football fans and players to find updated news and sporting opportunities.
Pete Cashmore
Founder & CEO of Mashable
Pete Cashmore is the founder and CEO of Mashable, the leading source of news, information & resources for the Connected Generation. Pete founded Mashable in 2005 in Aberdeenshire, Scotland when he was 19. His passion for sharing how web tools and social networks were transforming human interactions and reshaping cultures drove him to create Mashable. Always an entrepreneur, Pete has continued to push Mashable to evolve from a tech blog to a global media company built around technology. He leads Mashable’s strategy and his innate sense of the web and its community, are core to the company’s operations and future growth. He has been described as the “Sage of Media” and considered one of the most influential voices of his generation– on and offline. Pete was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in 2012. He was featured on Forbes 30 under 30 list, named one of Ad Age’s 2011 influencers, and was named a Young Global Leader by The World Economic Forum.
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About Mashable: Mashable is a media company for the connected generation and voice of digital culture.
Toby Gabriner
Chief Executive Officer of Bitly
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About Bitly: Bitly is a link management platform that helps brands deliver and measure their marketing efforts across all channels.
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.
Alexander Kesler
Founder & CEO of INFUSE Media
Alexander is a visionary B2B marketing leader with over 15 years of experience in building highly successful organizations. As a Founder and CEO of INFUSEmedia, one of the fastest-growing private companies in America, he specializes in driving growth by focusing on solutions for B2B demand generation and omnichannel marketing, among others. Alexander is a graduate of Babson College with a degree in Entrepreneurship, Marketing, and International Business.
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About FortifyIQ, Infotelligent, INFUSE Media, inSegment: INFUSE Media is aiming to bridge the flood of datasets, platforms, and marketing goals that advertisers.
Luke McDonough
Founder, CEO of AIR.TV
Luke McDonough is Founder & CEO at AIR.TV.
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About AIR.TV, IFILM: AIR.TV enables the distribution and monetization of viral videos on websites.
Kate Miller
Co-founder and CEO of Miss Grass
Kate Miller is the Co-Founder and CEO at Miss Grass. She was a Founder and Co-President of MKPresents and Senior Manager & Director of Enterprises at Broadway Video. Ms. Miller graduated from the University of Southern California – Marshall School of Business with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Management.
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About Miss Grass: Miss Grass is a modern and elevated online magazine with captivating content and an e-commerce destination for modern cannabis consumers.
Isaac Mashman
CEO/Founder of Mashman Ventures
Born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida Isaac Mashman is a businessman, podcast host, speaker, and private investor who first got involved in business in 2017. Coming from a rather “humble” family, through business Isaac realized that there was more to life than struggle and stagnancy. It was the perfect solution to his childhood problems. Since starting his journey he has had the opportunity to become the first person in his family to ever travel internationally, has been to multiple states and cities including New York, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and Miami. He’s hosted two podcasts, and in April of 2020 he launched his very own company Mashman Ventures. One of the largest things he attributes to his success has been personal development. He recognized early on that if one was not growing as an individual the chances were, no other areas of his life would be growing either. This is why Isaac launched his newest podcast, “Chase the Vision with Isaac Mashman” and has made it his goal to share his experiences, knowledge, and lessons he has learned along the way with as many people as possible, thus helping them become more capable and in return get the results they want in life. Isaac Mashman specializes in creating, growing and positioning personal brands through his public relations firm Mashman Ventures.
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About Mashman Investments, Mashman Ventures: Mashman Ventures is a public relations firm that specializes in personal branding.
John Josephson
Chairman, Director & Chief Executive Officer of Sesac
John is Chairman and CEO of SESAC, Inc., a leading music rights organization. He has served as a director of the company since 1992, following its acquisition by Allen & Company Inc. in partnership with an investor group. Rizvi Traverse Management acquired a controlling interest in SESAC in December 2012. Previously, John was a Managing Director at Allen & Company LLC, a privately-held merchant bank based in New York City, where he was employed from 1987 to 2014. At Allen & Company, John’s focus was the general area of investment banking, including corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, in- and out-of-bankruptcy restructurings, financial advisory services and direct investments. Clients that he worked with included Time Warner Cable, The News Corporation, Time Warner, Sony Corporation of America, AOL, Viacom, Reuters Group and The Chernin Group. John received an M.B.A. with High Distinction in 1987 from Harvard Business School, where he was elected a George F. Baker Scholar. He received his Bachelor of Arts Degree, summa cum laude, from Cornell University in 1983, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
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About Sesac: ESAC Celebrates Songwriters & Publishers at 2014
Brian Grigsby
CEO of Good Shepherd Entertainment
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About Corsa Ventures, Good Shepherd Entertainment: Good Shepherd Entertainment (formerly Gambitious Digital Entertainment) is a Dutch video game publisher based in The Hague, the Netherlands.
Mike Federle
CEO of Forbes Magazine
Mike Federle has served as Chief Operating Officer of Forbes since October 2011, overseeing circulation, manufacturing and distribution operations as well as global licensing and new business development. Prior to Forbes, Federle was co-founder, President and COO of Techonomy Media Inc, a multimedia company based in New York, in which Forbes acquired an equity interest in July 2011. He is a 25-year veteran of the media industry, including positions as Publisher of Fortune magazine, Group Publisher of the Time Inc Business & Finance Network, Group Publisher of the Bonnier Mountain Group in Boulder, Colorado, and CEO Advertising & Marketing at Next Jump, a privately held Silicon Valley internet company.
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About Forbes Magazine, Forbes Media: Forbes Magazine is a business magazine that is focused on business news and financial information.
Donald Wisniewski
CEO of Cyberhull
Don joined his first start up company, Cybiko Inc, as President in 1999. Don led the funding effort for Cybiko and with other team members raised $19.5million in Venture Capital funding. Cybiko launched a ( Gameboy like ) wireless connected internet device under his leadership and the company grew from 25 to over 275 employees in 2 years. Ninety percent of the Cybiko employees were based in Moscow, Russia. Don, working with his team, then organized the company into several divisions one of which was a wireless content publisher/developer, Cybiko Wireless. Starting with only 9 employees and $300k in funding, he took lead role and grew that entity to over eighty employees in two year with the majority of resources being located off shore. He then sold Cybiko Wireless to a leading French Mobile Game Publisher providing significant ROI for his investors. Don next founded 3D Wireless Games Inc. a specialized Mobile Content Development company. He established its base of operations in Russia, built the team and successfully sold the company to Superscape, Plc. Don joined Superscape as SVP Operations and Marketing and played a key role in re engineering operations, substantially growing the off shore development team from 15 to 95 employees and driving Superscape into a Top 5 publisher in the US Mobile Games market. Superscape was sold to Glu Mobile in April 2008 for $36 Million and after he finished the integration of the two companies, Don went on to Co-Found CyberHULL. For the past 10 yrs he has focused his efforts in the Russia IT market. He has established significant off shore development teams multiple times and delivered very strong results.
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About Cyberhull: Cyberhull is an IT company that has teams of outsourced software and programming development and involves in data transformation and more.
Hussam Hammo
CEO of Tamatem Inc.
Hussam Hammo is founder & CEO of Tamatem Inc., the leading mobile games publisher in the Arabic speaking market. He is a serial-entrepreneur who founded Faye3.com, the first Arabic social network that was acquired by Maktoob.com which was later acquired by Yahoo. Hussam then co-founded Wizards Productions in 2009 a gaming studio and finally Tamatem, which currently has 30 employees in its HQ in Amman, Jordan where they have published 40 games with over 50M downloads.
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About Ebshir.com, Tamatem Inc.: Tamatem is a mobile games publisher that focuses on providing the users with culturally relevant games.
Mitch Ratcliffe
CEO & Publisher of Earth911
Mitch Ratcliffe, a veteran entrepreneur and analyst in digital media, is currently Publisher and CEO of Earth911.com. Previously, he cofounded Gig Economy Group and was chief product officer at BIA/Kelsey, a leading local media research and investment banking firm. He cofounded BuzzLogic, now TwelveFold, where he led the development of a patented social influence analysis system. Prior to BIA/Kelsey, he was Director of Global Digital Business Process at hibu and Lead Senior Program Manager at Microsoft Bing and Technet/MSDN. He was on the founding executive team of ON24, where he was Editor-in-Chief and Chief Content Officer, and represented SoftBank Capital on the board of directors of Match.com parent Electric Classifieds Inc. from its founding in 1996 through 1999. He has advised Audible.com (11 years), MyDigs, Earthweb, Technorati and many other early-stage firms.
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About Earth911, Metaforce, Samsung Electronics America: Earth911 gathers, distributes and analyzes localized recycling information to assist manufacturers, organizations and consumers with
Henry Blodget
CEO & Editor of Business Insider
A former top-ranked Wall Street analyst, Blodget is often a guest on CNBC, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, and other networks. He has contributed to The Atlantic, Slate, The New York Times, Fortune, New York, the Financial Times, and other publications. He has written extensively about technology and investing and is the author of “The Wall Street Self-Defense Manual: A Consumer’s Guide to Investing.” He is a member of the International Media Council and Technology Pioneers selection committee of the World Economic Forum.
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About Business Insider: Business Insider is an online platform that offers the latest business, celebrity, and technology news.
Leslie Moonves
Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer of CBS Corporation
Leslie Moonves is President and Chief Executive Officer of CBS Corporation, one of the world’s leading media enterprises. In this role, he oversees all operations of the Company, including the CBS Television Network, The CW (a joint venture between CBS Corporation and Warner Bros. Entertainment), CBS Television Studios, CBS Global Distribution Group (CBS Studios International and CBS Television Distribution), CBS Consumer Products, CBS Home Entertainment, CBS Films, CBS Interactive, Showtime Networks, CBS Sports Network, Pop (a joint venture between CBS Corporation and Lionsgate), Smithsonian Networks, Simon & Schuster, CBS Television Stations, CBS Radio and CBS EcoMedia. Moonves came to CBS in 1995 as President of Entertainment, after serving as president of Warner Bros. Television, where his team developed hit shows like Friends and ER. Once at CBS, Moonves and his team took the Network from last to first place in the ratings, launching hit shows like Everybody Loves Raymond, Survivor, and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Moonves was promoted to President and CEO of CBS Television in 1998 and became Chairman in 2003. He was later named Co-President and Co-Chief Operating Officer of Viacom and Chairman of CBS in 2004, overseeing domestic and international broadcast television operations as well as its radio division and outdoor advertising operations. In 2006, when Viacom split its businesses into two publicly traded companies, Moonves was named President and CEO of the newly formed CBS Corporation, which has since been one of the best-performing companies in media. Under Moonves’ direction, the CBS Television Network has been #1 in viewers for 12 of the last 13 years, and currently has television’s #1 drama, NCIS; television’s #1 comedy, The Big Bang Theory; television’s #1 news program, 60 Minutes; as well as time period-leading shows on virtually every night of the week. At the same time, the Company’s premium cable service, Showtime Networks, has generated millions of new subscribers on the heels of its successful owned series, such as Ray Donovan, House of Lies, Dexter and The Affair, as well as the critically acclaimed, Emmy- and Golden-Globe-Award-winning series Homeland. The Company’s push to sell its shows around the world has made international distribution sales a significant revenue source, with CBS content licensed to more than 200 markets in more than 30 languages across multiple media platforms. That emphasis on exploiting content has also enabled CBS to strike lucrative, multiyear deals with the industry’s biggest online distributors, including Netflix and Amazon. CBS’s other divisions have also been robust under Moonves’ leadership, including interactive media. The Company’s acquisition of CNET, Inc. in 2008 helped make CBS Interactive the premier online content network for information and entertainment, with more than 280 million people from around the world visiting its websites each month. In publishing, Simon & Schuster routinely releases hundreds of New York Times bestsellers every year, including dozens that make it to #1, and is the publishing home of some of the world’s most recognized and prize-winning authors. Simon & Schuster is also a leader in digital publishing, with titles available across all major platforms and formats. In local broadcasting, CBS-owned TV stations are among the most-watched in the country, and CBS Radio is home to the most-listened-to radio stations in the U.S. By distinguishing CBS as a producer and seller of world-class content across all mediums, Moonves has helped CBS Corporation grow in value, revenue and market share while identifying and developing key new revenue streams for future growth.
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About CBS Corporation, CBS Records: CBS Corporation is a mass media company that creates and distributes content across a variety of platforms to audiences around the world.
Scott Turman
CEO of BrightRay Publishing
General: Scott Turman is an American technologist, entrepreneur, and author. He started his career writing code and cryptographic systems for organizations such as NASA, the US Department of Defense, Disney, and other Fortune 500s. Company: He is the founder and CEO of BrightRay Publishing, an American company that offers writing and publishing services for founders, CEOs, celebrities, sports figures, politicians, and other professionals. Author: Scott has co-written two books. The first, Stop Getting Fu*ked by Technical Recruiters: A Nerd’s Guide to Negotiating Salary and Benefits, reached Amazon’s Top 10 rank for its category. The second, How to Build Your Brand with a Book: Establishing Yourself as a Published Expert, will be published in the summer of 2021. Companies founded: Scott has founded two organizations under the BrightRay trademark, BrightRay Consulting and BrightRay Publishing. Both are based in Winter Park, Florida. Backstory: Scott has over two and a half decades of technology consulting experience. He founded his first company in 1999. Scott was named after Scott Carpenter, the fourth American in space. His father, Arthur Turman, had worked with Scott Carpenter on Mercury-Atlas 7 at NASA. Personal: Scott is married to the Belgian architect Birgit Turman. He lives with his wife and son in Maitland, Florida.
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About BrightRay Publishing: You have book that you just can’t get done and BrightRay Publishing has a team of writers and editors that will do it for you.
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.
John Cabell
Founder, Owner & CEO of Cue Ball, LLC
John Cabell is Founder & CEO at Cueball.
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About Cue Ball, LLC: Cue Ball, a management consultancy/brokerage firm, provides services to global publishing, media, technology, and entertainment industries.
Lyle Hall
President & CEO of Heavy Iron Studios
A 24-year industry veteran, Lyle Hall oversees Heavy Iron Studios, Inc. Before joining Heavy Iron in early 2002, Lyle created and produced original and licensed properties while working at DreamWorks SKG, Crystal Dynamics and Virgin Games. Highlights include the first 32-bit character action game, GEX; Westwood Studio’s original RTS, Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty; RoboCop vs. The Terminator, Cool Spot and Global Gladiators, SEGA’s1992 Game of the Year. During his time at Heavy Iron, Lyle has also served as Executive Producer on Disney*Pixar titles, The Incredibles, its video game sequel Rise of the Underminer, Ratatouille, WALL-E and UP and as well Nickelodeon’s SpongeBob’s Truth or Square, directing production and development of these franchises across multiple studios and directly managing the relationships with these illustrious media companies. In mid-2009, Lyle single handedly took Heavy Iron independent and since then has shepherded the release of UFC Personal Trainer on the Xbox360, PS3 and Wii, Harley Pasternak’s Hollywood Workout for the Xbox360/Kinect and Wii and was most recently Executive Producer on Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse for the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC, Disney’s Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two on the Wii U and Disney Infinity for the Wii U and Wii and Disney Infinity 2.0: Marvel Super Heroes on PC and iOS.
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About Heavy Iron Studios: Heavy Iron Studios is an independent video game design company that makes products for Disney.
Moshe Pinto
CEO of WiderCircle
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About WiderCircle: WiderCircle is a provider of an in-personal social platform designed to connect older adults.
Mukund Goenka
Co-Founder, CEO of Regology
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About Regology: Regology is curating the world’s regulations to help businesses with compliance.
Dave Hagewood
CEO & Founder of Psyonix
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About Psyonix: Psyonix is a critically-acclaimed video game developer and leading experts in Unreal Engine technology.
Robin Thurston
Chairman & CEO of Outside
Robin is the CEO of Helix. Before joining Helix, Robin held various positions at Under Armour. Prior to that, he co-founded and served as the chief executive officer of MapMyFitness. Robin holds a master’s degree in finance from the University of Colorado at Denver.
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About MapMyFitness, Outside: Outside, formerly Pocket Outdoor Media, is the world’s leading creator of active lifestyle content and experiences.
Andy Sparks
Co-Founder & CEO of Holloway
Andy Sparks is the Co-Founder & CEO of Holloway, a publishing and technology company in San Francisco that publishes reliable frameworks for solving complex practical problems. Prior to Holloway, he co-founded Mattermark. He lives in San Francisco, CA and graduated from The Ohio State University.
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About Holloway: Holloway publishes comprehensive practical Guides, each researched, written, and refined by experts.
Jeremy Kauffman
Founder & CEO of LBRY
Jeremy knows how to build and scale a startup starting from day one. He knows how to deliver usable products and get those products in front of the right people. Jeremy is responsible for the packing, presentation, and strategy of LBRY, as well as some design aspects. He is a longtime supporter of decentralized technology and freedom of information. Jeremy founded TopScore, a startup that processes millions of dollars monthly in event and activity registrations. He also attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he received degrees in physics and computer science.
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About LBRY, Odysee: LBRY, a content sharing and publishing platform that is decentralized and owned by its users
Michael Wolf
CEO and Founder, Publisher, Editor in Chief of The Spoon
Michael Wolf is the creator of the Smart Kitchen Summit, host of the Smart Kitchen Show podcast and founder of NextMarket Insights a research and advisory firm focused on the connected home. He decided to put this conference together because he is fascinated by how technology will change the way we cook, eat and live. Mike has been advising companies large and small in the connected home, consumer technology and Internet of Things market verticals for over 15 years, and today he helps clients have used his advisory services to assist with product development, go-to-market strategy, marketing and advertising, and mergers and acquisition. Linkedin/Twitter
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About The Spoon: The Spoon provides daily analysis and reporting about the smart kitchen and food tech revolution.
Walter Knapp
CEO of Sovrn
Walter is the CEO of sovrn. Most recently he was the Chief Operating Officer at Federated Media Publishing and Lijit Networks. With more than 20 years of business and operations management, Walter has been an investor as a Partner and Principal for two very successful venture capital funds. He has also built and led large field organizations for two public companies, Novell and Cambridge Technology partners. Walter regularly speaks about monetization and data strategies at industry events covering both online publishing and advertising. Walter holds a Master’s in Engineering from the University of Colorado in Boulder and a B.A. in History from Boston College.
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About AppTap, Sovrn: Sovrn offers products and services to online publishers that help them understand, operate and grow their businesses.
Paulo Martins
CEO & Co-Founder of Arena.im
CEO & Co-Founder at Arena.im Arena.im is a cloud-based marketing platform for live experiences. Our mission is to empower media companies to take back ownership of their audience from social networks and grow their community in their website.
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About Arena.im: Arena.im is Live Chat for Streaming, Live shopping and CDP
Afshin Behnia
CEO of Petrolicious
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About Petrolicious: Petrolicious is the destination for automotive enthusiasts to get a daily dose of high-quality content. Drive Tastefully.
Victor Chapela
Co-founder & CEO of Suggestic
Victor Chapela has over 25 years of IT experience and entrepreneurship. During this time, he has founded and led 6 technology companies in the United States and Mexico. As the founder and CEO of these companies he has mainly been involved in the design and development of software products and specialized services for the financial industry and large corporations. His latest companies: Sm4rt Security Services and Sm4rt Predictive Systems were both acquired in 2014. Mr. Chapela is an active angel investor and mentor in the Silicon Valley area. His main expertise lies within the area of information security, risk modeling, predictive analytics and machine learning. He is co-author and contributor of courseware, study material and papers for SANS, OWASP, ISACA, Springer and several other organizations and media companies. He is a frequent speaker at international events and is frequently featured in business and trade magazines, television and radio.
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About Suggestic: Suggestic operates as a personalized nutrition platform that utilizes AI to deliver food recommendations.
Brian Hanly
Founder, CEO of Bullish Studio
With more than a decade spent at the forefront of new media, Brian specializes in leading and building innovative partnership efforts across digital, social, experiential, TV, and agency services to grow brands and publishers. As an eight-figure, top international revenue contributor at VICE Media—which reached a $5.7 billion valuation during his tenure—he forged unique, culture-defining partnerships with global brands such as Airbnb, Google, and Unilever among others. Currently, Brian is the Founder and CEO of Bullish, a new money media company.
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About Bullish Studio: A creator focused content studio for the freshest voices in money and culture.
Tom MacIsaac
President and CEO of RBmedia
Tom is an experienced entrepreneur, executive and investor and currently CEO of RBmedia, the largest audiobook publisher in the world and a leading distributor of digital media to consumers. Prior to RBmedia he was CEO of Verve, a leading mobile data platform. Prior to joining Verve, Tom was CEO of ExtendMedia, the IP video software company serving customers including AT&T, Verizon, Disney and Paramount. Extend was acquired by Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) in 2010. Previously, Tom served as CEO of Lightningcast, a pioneer in online video advertising where he led the development of the first advertising technology platform specifically designed for monetizing broadband video and launched the first online video ad network. After AOL (NYSE: AOL) acquired Lightningcast in 2006, Tom served as SVP Strategy overseeing strategy, strategic planning and corporate and business development for AOL’s market-leading advertising businesses. Prior to Lightningcast, Tom founded and served as CEO of Backwire, an online and mobile messaging company that was acquired by Leap Wireless (NASDAQ: LEAP) in 2001. Prior to his career in digital media, Tom was a corporate lawyer with the global law firm Dechert.
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About Ardent Venture Partners, Cove Street Partners, RBmedia: RBmedia online media firm that offers digital magazine and audiobook production and distribution services.
Alex Lieberman
Founder & CEO of Morning Brew
Alex is the Cofounder @ Morning Brew
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About Morning Brew: Morning Brew is a quick and quality daily e-mail newsletter for the millennial business professional.
Neil Young
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of N3TWORK
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About N3TWORK: Creating, publishing, and scaling the very best in mobile games.
Paul Rosenberg
CEO of Def Jam Recordings
Paul Rosenberg is currently the CEO of Def Jam Recordings.
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About Def Jam Recordings: Def Jam Recordings is a music company.
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.
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.
Nion McEvoy
Chairman & CEO of Chronicle Books
Nion McEvoy, Chairman and CEO, joined Chronicle Books in 1986. He became Editor-in-Chief of the Adult Trade division until the acquisition of the company in February of 2000 by The McEvoy Group. He previously worked in the Business Affairs offices of Wescom Productions and the William Morris Agency. He is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Cruz, and the University of California’s Hasting’s College of the Law.
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About Chronicle Books, SFMOMA: Chronicle Books is on of U.S A’s finest book sellers when it comes to books. They have had several bestseller in the due course of time.
Matt Halfhill
Founder/CEO of Nice Kicks
Matt Halfhill is the Founder + CEO of Nice Kicks
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About Nice Kicks: Matt Halfhill launched NiceKicks.com in 2006 to provide sneaker enthusiasts with the most up-to-date information and news on sneakers.
Jordan Freeman
Chief Executive Officer & Founder of ZOOM Platform
ZOOM’s Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Jordan Freeman, conceived the ZOOM Platform project and built its first prototype. He also formed the Jordan Freeman Group development arm of the Company, which focuses on building franchises around ZOOM technology. These franchises are, and will be, published and distributed on ZOOM Platform. Before ZOOM, Freeman was Founder and Chief Technical Officer at Head 2 Head Gaming. (Net Worth: $10MM+)
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About Jordan Freeman Group, ZOOM Platform: ZOOM Platform aims to design, create, and publish traditional and interactive entertainment with a Generation X transmedia appeal.
Roger Lynch
CEO of Condé Nast
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About Condé Nast: Condé Nast publishes magazines, websites, and tablet and smartphone applications.
Christian Bishop
CEO of GG Media Network
Christian Bishop, is a former telecommunications consultant serving as Enterprise Media Director with Level 3 Communications and Director of Content for BidChat, a cutting edge two-way live broadcasting platform for social influencers. He is also an Executive Producer for the film “Huntsville”. He is most recognized from his recent work on ABC’s “The Bachelorette” and “Bachelors In Paradise.”
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About GG Media Network, Method: GG Media Network is a rising eSports media production company.
Elliott Easterling
Co-Founder & CEO of TrueData
Elliott brings over 20 years of data-driven marketing experience to TrueData. Elliott most recently was founder and CEO of Red Bricks Media, a full-service digital marketing agency which he grew into an INC 500 company with offices in New York, San Francisco, and Hong Kong. Prior to those roles he headed sales and account management at Digital Impact (now Acxiom Digital) where he managed 60% of revenue and handled accounts like HP, Fidelity, Dell, and Palm. Elliott has a MA from UCSD in International Affairs and a BA from Amherst College.
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About TrueData: TrueData is a mobile data platform that works with app publishers who generate mobile data & the companies who need data for ad targeting
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.
Nadav Shoval
CEO & Co-Founder of OpenWeb
Nadav Shoval is the CEO & Co-Founder of Spot.IM, an on-site community that brings the power back to the publisher. Prior to Spot.IM, Nadav has developed and founded 4 technology startups. Spot.IM is his fifth venture. Nadav is a technology erudite and a sports addict.
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About OpenWeb: OpenWeb is a social engagement platform for people to elevate an open exchange of ideas across communities online.
Justin Bailey
Founder & CEO of Fig
Mr. Bailey has served as the Chief Executive Officer of Fig since he started the company in November of 2014. Mr. Bailey has been active in the video game industry from an early age, programming his first graphic adventure game in assembly at age 8. His first job was selling games at a software store called Babbage’s, which eventually became a wholly-owned subsidiary of the video game retailer now called GameStop Corporation. Mr. Bailey’s work in video games includes experience publishing a variety of free-to-play, premium and mobile games, such as Broken Age (FKA Double Find Adventures), Massive Chalice, Middle Manager of Justice, and Dungeons & Dragons Neverwinter. Since 2008, Mr. Bailey has secured over $100 million in game financing from publishers, investors and crowdfunding, resulting in returns totaling over $250 million. Mr. Bailey previously served as the Chief Operating Officer of Double Fine Productions, Inc.
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About Fig: Fig is a crowdfunding platform for video games.
Andy Fromm
President & CEO of Service Management Group
Andy Fromm founded Service Management Group in 1991 with Bill Fromm and Dr. Len Schlesinger. SMG’s first client was a small retail chain, where Andy led a team conducting an employee survey. Throughout the company’s history, SMG’s associate and customer research has included an analysis of their relationship to financial performance. This concept was the primary focus of Dr. Schlesinger’s research at Harvard Business School and first articulated in 1998 in The Service Profit Chain with co-authors Heskett and Sasser. SMG’s research was subsequently published in 2003 in The Value Profit Chain—the follow-up work from the same research group at Harvard. Andy graduated with distinction from Boston University and has served as an expert contributor in the area of customer service and satisfaction measurement to media such as the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Fast Company.
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About Service Management Group: Service Management Group is a research firm focused on providing customer and employee insight.
Laila Alawa
CEO and Founder of The Tempest
Laila Alawa started her career at the White House and Congress, and is the CEO and Founder of The Tempest. In 2016, she was honored at the White House Summit on the United State of Women. Since founding The Tempest, Laila has been quoted in nationwide outlets like The New York Times, The Guardian, and CNN Money as a disruptive force in media.
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About Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, Keppler Speakers, LAILA + HUDA, The Tempest: The leading media company by diverse millennial women, for the world.
Donald Pazour
President & Chief Executive Officer of Access Intelligence
Don has led the strategy and growth of Access Intelligence for over a decade, taking magazine-centric businesses and converting them to an integrated media, web-centric group of market focused product clusters serving the media/marketing, energy/engineering, aerospace, and healthcare markets. His focus has been on providing the best quality information and most effective marketing services to the company’s customers. Don and his team have built the business through countless launches and 18 acquisitions that have been bolted onto and integrated into the Phillips Business Information newsletter and magazine platform that Veronis Suhler Stevenson bought from Tom Phillips in late 2000. In 2010, the integrated, subscription revenue, chemical and energy information business was sold to IHS. Since that time, the company has leveraged its strong balance sheet and robust online market presence in its served markets to create high e-media and event revenue growth. In 2011, AI completed the acquisitions of OR Manager for it’s healthcare division, Red7 Media for the media portion of it’s Communications Group, and Cynopsis for the cable division of it’s Communications Group. Before joining Access Intelligence, Don was at Miller Freeman, a subsidiary of United Business Media, for 23 years and he was named CEO in 1997. His ascendance through the company included management of conferences, magazines, and high-value information businesses. Don launched and grew Miller Freeman’s presence in the high-tech publishing sector, culminating with the acquisition of CMP Media in 1999. Under his leadership, Blenheim USA’s trade shows were acquired by Miller Freeman, which then became the largest trade show producer in the United States. Don is a frequent speaker at events held in conjunction with Folio Magazine; American Business Media, where he is chairman of their government relations committee; Society of Independent Show Organizers, where he is a past chairman, and Specialized Information Publishers Association. He also serves as vice chairman of the Center for Exhibition Industry Research, as well as on the Board of F + W Media, one of the largest independent special interest consumer book, web, and magazine publishers.
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About Access Intelligence, American Business Media, Folio Magazine: Access Intelligence offers business intelligence and integrated marketing solutions such as magazines, data products and e-media solutions.
Gabe Rivera
CEO of Techmeme
Gabe Rivera is the founder and CEO of [Techmeme](/organization/Techmeme), the tech industry’s leading news aggregator. He enjoys cooking, napping, and encouraging people to fight each other online. He’s not a jerk, but plays one on Twitter. Gabe was included in Time’s [140 Best Twitter Feeds of 2013](http://techland.time.com/2013/03/25/140-best-twitter-feeds-of-2013/) and Businessweek’s [25 Most Influential People on the Web](http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/09/0929_most_influential/index.htm). Before starting Techmeme, Gabe worked in Intel’s compiler group, and prior to that, researched compilers at the University of Maryland. Born in New Jersey, he now lives in San Francisco.
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About Techmeme: Techmeme is an online news aggregator that arranges technology related stories from hundreds of news and blog sites.
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.
Ruben Vardanyan
Founder & CEO of Joomag, Inc.
Dr Ruben Vardanyan is an innovative and result-driven leader with more than a decade of experience in building hi-tech companies. He is a founder and Chief Executive Officer of Joomag, a US based SaaS company that provides integrated solution for creating interactive digital publications. Under Vardanyan’s guidance the company developed a series of revolutionary products and became an industry leader. He has extensive experience working with SMBs as well as large enterprises including Fortune 500 companies. He is an angel investor, advisor and serves as a board member for various tech startups. Prior to his Joomag experience, he was the founding CEO of mobile app development company Magy. The company produced several best-seller and award winning apps. In addition to being a master strategist, Vardanyan is an aficionado of all aspects of computer programming, security, databases, software, protocols and web servers. In fact, he co-authored “Principles of C++” and authored “Programming in Macromedia Flash Action Script.” Along with his Executive Education from Harvard, Vardanyan holds a PhD in Computer Science and maintains active involvement in workshops, trainings and is a guest speaker at several international conferences.
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About Joomag, Inc.: Joomag is the all-in-one platform empowering businesses large and small to create, distribute, track, and monetize their interactive content
Robert Dickey
President & CEO of Gannett
Robert Dickey is the President, Chief Executive Officer and a Member of the Board of Directors at Gannett Co. Inc. since 2015. Bob became President and Chief Executive Officer of Gannett following the company’s separation in 2015. Bob previously was President of the Gannett U.S. Community Publishing Division, formerly the Newspaper Division, from 2008 — 2015. As President of U.S. Community Publishing, Bob oversaw 92 daily newspapers and their associated digital assets along with approximately 400 non-daily products. Previously Bob served as Senior Group President of Pacific Group and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Phoenix Newspapers, Inc. from 2005 to 2008; President and Publisher of The Desert Sun, Palm Springs, CA, from 1993 to 2005 and Group Vice President of the Pacific Group, 1997 to 2005. Bob began his career with Gannett as the Retail Advertising Manager in Reno and became Ad Director in 1990. In July of 1993, Bob rose through the ranks to President and Publisher of The Desert Sun newspaper in Palm Springs. In 1997, Bob became a Gannett Group Vice President for the Pacific Region and was named Senior Group President and Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer at The Arizona Republic in September 2005. Bob’s many accomplishments with Gannett include 2005 Manager of the Year, the only Gannett Publisher to win consecutive Publisher of the Year awards in 1998 and 1999, Publisher’s President’s Ring awards 1997 through 2002 and 2004 and President’s Ring and runner-up Ad Director of the Year in 1992. Bob serves on the board of the National Newspaper Association and serves on the Executive Committee as Treasurer. Bob also serves on the International Newspaper Marketing Association board of directors.
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About Gannett: Gannett is a media and marketing solutions company that publishes newspapers and operates news and advertising internet sites.
Nick Gernert
CEO & Founder of WordPress VIP
Nick Gernert is the CEO & Founder of WordPress VIP & he attended University of Central Florida – College of Business Administration in 2000.
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About WordPress VIP: WordPress VIP offers enterprise hosting and support to publishers including TechCrunch.
Alex Krupp
Co-founder & CEO of FWD:Everyone
Alex Krupp is the Co-Founder & CEO of FWD:Everyone
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About FWD:Everyone: The best way to read and publish emails.
Lisa Padilla
Founder and CEO of NewPathVR
Lisa Padilla is the CEO of NewPathVR and has been helping businesses reach customers and partners with integrated marketing and advertising campaigns for more than 20 years. Lisa’s career includes work at the largest advertising agencies in the world (Foote, Cone & Belding, Euro RSCG) and direct consulting with AOL, Apple, BlogTalkRadio, Clorox, Drugstore.com, Experian, eFax, Hewlett-Packard, Intuit, Levis, McDonald’s, Microsoft, Netgear, and Netscape Communications. She is also known for covering Silicon Valley people and happenings, podcasting and video production, startups, social media, advertising, naming rights, software design and user experience. She advises companies about marketing, digital media, contextual marketing strategies and community building.
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About NewPathVR: NewPathVR is a digital therapeutics company forcused on mental and behavioral health.
Moshe Vaknin
Founder & CEO of YouAppi
Moshe Vaknin has been dreaming about YouAppi since he bought his first iPhone 3. After a long and successful career with leading companies such as ATT and VocalTech, Moshe founded three successful start-ups before founding YouAppi. As the CEO of YouAppi, Moshe brings vast experience in the advertising, publishing and affiliate marketing fields.
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About YouAppi: YouAppi is a digital marketing platform for premium app publishers and brands.
Isaac Perlmutter
CEO of Marvel Entertainment
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About Marvel Entertainment: Marvel Entertainment is a character-based entertainment company engaged in licensing, publishing, toy making, and film production.
Jes Wolfe
CEO of Rebel Girls
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About Hoodline, Pixel Labs, Rebel Girls: Rebel Girls is amulti-platform empowerment brand dedicated to helping raise the most inspired and confident generation of girls.
Justin Kramer
CEO & President of The TEAM Companies
In 2012, The TEAM Companies acquired a majority interest in Talent Payment Services because of the forward thinking and commitment to industry knowledge and customer service that Justin has made synonymous with TPS. For over twenty years Justin has honed a unique and impressive blend of experiences that include executive management, sales, operations, and finance in Canada, the United States and South Africa. In 2003 Justin, together with group of private equity investors, purchased TPS and he was appointed CEO. Since then Justin has led TPS’s growth and expanded its core business of performer payroll and associated broadcast business affairs offerings to Canadian, U.S. and international advertising agencies and brands producing commercials and other ad content in Canada and the U.S. He has spearheaded the introduction of multiple technology initiatives which has resulted in TPS becoming a state of the art payroll and business affairs provider to its customers. Justin graduated from the University of Cape Town with a Bachelor of Commerce degree. Justin also serves as the President & CEO of Talent Payment Services.
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About Talent Payment Services, The TEAM Companies: The TEAM Companies is a leading payroll, business affairs and technology provider.
Rix Kramlich
CEO | Director of Blurb
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About Blurb: Blurb is a self-publishing platform allowing individuals to create, publish, share, promote and sell their own books.
Zohar Dayan
CEO & Founder of Wibbitz
CEO & Founder of Wibbitz, the leading automated video creation company that empowers any team to produce professional short-form video.
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About Wibbitz: Wibbitz is an automated video creation company that empowers any team to produce professional short-form video.
Terry Nealon
CEO of Learning Without Tears
Terry Nealon is a Chief Executive Officer at Learning Without Tears. He is a former SVP, General Manager of Classroom Solutions Follet Learning (Acquired Fishtree) at Follett Learning and CEO/Board Chair and Co-Founder at Fishtree – Now a Follett Company. Mr. Nealon received an MDP in Marketing at the University College Dublin.
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About Learning Without Tears: Learning Without Tears is to make learning & teaching easy & fun by providing superior educational products, training.
Molly Barton
CoFounder and CEO of Serial Box
Molly Barton is the co-founder and CEO at Serial Box.
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About Serial Box: Realm is an entertainment company that provides serialized entertainment for readers and listeners.
Noah A. Samara
Chairman & CEO of Worldspace
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About Worldspace, XM Radio: Worldspace provide high quality radio programming, including a wide variety of music, news and entertainment channels.
Snigdha Sur
Founder & CEO of The Juggernaut
Snigdha Sur is Founder at The Juggernaut.
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About The Juggernaut: The Juggernaut is a digital media publication focusing on South Asian stories.
David Mandelbrot
CEO of Reverb.com
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About Reverb.com: Reverb.com is a provider of an online marketplace intended for new, used, and vintage music gear.
Daniel Yomtobian
CEO & Founder of Advertise.com
As the Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Advertise.com, Daniel Yomtobian is one of Internet advertising’s top innovators and is a recognized expert in online marketing. Daniel began founding successful Internet companies while still in college in the mid 1990’s. Daniel co-founded WayInternet and Findology, his first advertising companies, & sold his shares in 2001 to pioneer ABCSearch, which has since become the largest privately-owned pay-per-click search network. In 2008, Daniel expanded his search marketing expertise in a new direction with the launch of the exciting new social search engine; Scour.com. Scour has since gone on to win two prestigious awards: a Mashable Award & the CNET Webware 100 Award. Daniel’s vision of creating a comprehensive, one-stop solution for the Internet Advertiser has come closer in 2009 with the acquisition of the brand, Advertise.com. Daniel has since rebranded ABCSearch & is in the process of building up Advertise.com into the Internet’s premier marketing site. Currently, Advertise.com serves over 10 billion ad impressions each month, & is growing exponentially. Daniel is a driving force in the Internet space, & brings his cutting-edge expertise to shaping Internet advertising’s unlimited future.
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About Advertise.com, Bian Capital, YPO: Advertise.com is a platform that enables advertisers to reach a wider audience through search engines and publisher properties.
