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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based Director operating in the Advertising space. If you think a Director 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.
Giovanni Gardelli
Senior Director, Ad Targeting Products of Verizon Media
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About Verizon Media: Verizon Media offers services in content, advertising, and technology with its brands such as Yahoo, TechCrunch, and more.
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Mozan Totani
Director, Head of Data Center Development and Delivery of Verizon Media
Mozan Totani is the Regional Manager, Amazon Web Services Infrastructure Operations.
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About Amazon Web Services, Verizon Media: Verizon Media offers services in content, advertising, and technology with its brands such as Yahoo, TechCrunch, and more.
Niranjan Nagar
Sr. Director, Product Partnerships of Verizon Media
Niranjan is the Sr. Director of Product Management at Verizon Media focused on product partnerships. He is an accomplished entrepreneur and a business leader with over 20 years of experience in digital entertainment and software services. He has extensive experience in software engineering, strategic planning, partnership and digital marketing working for leading software companies like Facebook, Electronic Arts, Listen.com/RealNetworks. Prior to Samsung, he was at Facebook focused on the growth of the games business, developing marketing strategy for mobile and console game publishers, and driving the integration of the Facebook platform on Playstation and the Xbox game consoles. He also co-founded SingShot, a karaoke based social networking service and a founding team member and VP of Engineering at Listen.com that created the Rhapsody music service. Niranjan has a MS in Computer Science from Drexel University and a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from Karnatak University in India. He is also a graduate of the SEP at Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
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About Meta, Samsung NEXT, Verizon Media: Verizon Media offers services in content, advertising, and technology with its brands such as Yahoo, TechCrunch, and more.
Alison Bellach Sonderegger
Director of Engineering of Verizon Media
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About Verizon Media: Verizon Media offers services in content, advertising, and technology with its brands such as Yahoo, TechCrunch, and more.
Christopher Vincelli
Director, Global Partnerships of Verizon Media
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About Millennial Media, Verizon Media: Verizon Media offers services in content, advertising, and technology with its brands such as Yahoo, TechCrunch, and more.
James Hughes
Director, Publisher Sales of Verizon Media
James Hughes is the director of publisher sales at Verizon Media.
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About Verizon Media: Verizon Media offers services in content, advertising, and technology with its brands such as Yahoo, TechCrunch, and more.
Mujibur Wahab
Director of Engineering of Verizon Media
Mujib is a Director of Engineering at Oath, a subsidiary of Verizon. He leads the global teams responsible for providing service authentication, authorization, key management, access management, traffic protection, and UGC moderation solutions and infrastructure. Mujib also oversees the development of Athenz (www.athenz.io), an open source platform for X.509 certificate-based service authentication and fine-grained access control in dynamic infrastructures.
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About Verizon Media: Verizon Media offers services in content, advertising, and technology with its brands such as Yahoo, TechCrunch, and more.
Anthony Winters
Director of Verizon Media
Anthony Winters is currently the Director of the Detroit office of Oath: (a division of Verizon) overseeing both Detroit and New York Automotive Business. Prior to Oath, Anthony ran the Detroit Yahoo Sales office for the last 3 years and served as an Account Director on the FCA business. Before embarking on his sales career, Anthony held senior account management roles at BBDO, FCB, Bozell and CME covering Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge, Harley Davidson and the Red Wings accounts. Anthony also worked in government relations at the American Association of Advertising Agencies in Washington DC. Anthony is a long time member of the Detroit Advertising community and currently serves as the Vice President of the Adcraft Club of Detroit, Vice Chair of the D Show Creative Awards and on the board of the Detroit Advertising Association. Anthony is also a member of 313 digital.
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About Verizon Media: Verizon Media offers services in content, advertising, and technology with its brands such as Yahoo, TechCrunch, and more.
Steve Reich
Account Director, Publisher Sales of Verizon Media
Over 16 years of experience building businesses and managing strategic partners in the technology and media industries with a consistent track record of exceeding revenue goals at startups and large global companies Subject Matter Expertise: Digital Advertising Solutions, Mobile Monetization, Programmatic, Business Intelligence, E-commerce, Social Media, Content Licensing & Acquisition, OTT, and more
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About Verizon Media: Verizon Media offers services in content, advertising, and technology with its brands such as Yahoo, TechCrunch, and more.
Faith Murphy
Sr. Director, SMB Partnerships of Verizon Media
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About Verizon Media: Verizon Media offers services in content, advertising, and technology with its brands such as Yahoo, TechCrunch, and more.
Faith Murphy
Sr. Director, SMB Partnerships of Verizon Media
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About Verizon Media: Verizon Media offers services in content, advertising, and technology with its brands such as Yahoo, TechCrunch, and more.
Leah Malone
Managing Director, Strategic Client Group in Sales of Foursquare
Leah is Senior Regional Director of Brand Partnerships at Foursquare, where she oversees key strategic client initiatives for New York and various eastern regions. She has had a hand in many of Foursquare’s largest brand and agency partnerships and most exciting creative executions, as well as the launch of Foursquare’s media and analytics products, Pinpoint and Attribution. She leads the charge in Foursquare’s evolution from social-focused media to meaningful location intelligence partnerships on behalf of some of our largest clients. Don’t let her gentle and fun demeanor fool you — Leah knows a thing or two about toughness as a former nationally-traveling competitive Roller Girl, and co-owner and founder of Beverly’s dba Essex Café Group, LLC on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. She holds a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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About Foursquare, Foursquare, Foursquare: Foursquare is a location technology platform offering business solutions and consumer products through a deep understanding of location.
Sarah Spagnolo
Director, Communications and Editor-at-Large of Foursquare
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About Foursquare: Foursquare is a location technology platform offering business solutions and consumer products through a deep understanding of location.
Adam Heimlich
SVP Programmatic, Managing Director of HX of Horizon media
Adam Heimlich works at Horizon Media leading HX, the agency’s programmatic buying department. Previously, Adam spent seven years at Razorfish and its predecessor, Avenue A. Adam joined Avenue A as a search marketer and headed the department for three years. Designed to make the programmatic opportunity accessible to any advertiser, HX is 100% cost-transparent and tech-agnostic, pursuing no interests other than client success.
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About Horizon media: Horizon Media, Inc. is the largest and fastest growing privately held media services agency in the world.
Michael Tripodi
VP, Digital Director of Horizon media
Michael Tripoldi has over 17 years of industry experience across both digital and traditional media types. Most recently, Michael was at Zenith Media where he oversaw all digital efforts for Verizon FiOS. His FiOS digital portfolio included a significant digital activation budget as well as overseeing ad technologies that allowed the media to be effectively measured, managed and delivered. Michael’s team deployed an assortment of digital tactics that sought out customers at the near household level to align with FiOS availability. Prior to leading the FiOS Digital efforts, Michael spent time at MediaVest running Comcast’s integrated communications for the Central United States across all media channels.
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About Horizon media: Horizon Media, Inc. is the largest and fastest growing privately held media services agency in the world.
Ryan Bell
Marketing Director at Comcast SportsTech of Boomtown Accelerators
Ryan A Bell is recipient of the Presidential Award for his volunteer work with Special Olympics and the youth in Oakland. He is a writer for The Good Men Project and a branding/marketing specialist for companies of all sizes. He also happens to be the most connected man on Periscope.
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About Boomtown Accelerators: Boomtown’s bespoke accelerator programs help startups turn ideas into profitable, scalable businesses.
Jose Vieitez
Co-Founder, Director and Portfolio Manager of Boomtown Accelerators
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About Boomtown Accelerators, The Farm Atlanta: Boomtown’s bespoke accelerator programs help startups turn ideas into profitable, scalable businesses.
Michael Gambacorta
Director, Product Management & Marketing Analytics of Central Park Digital
Over 15 years of experience in product management, digital marketing, programmatic advertising, data analytics, and strategic business planning. Bachelors Degree: Columbia University. Masters Programs in Computer Information Systems and Data Science. Areas of Expertise: Big Data Analysis, Product Management, Marketing Automation, Data Mining, Software Development Management, Statistical Analysis, Real-Time Reporting, Web & App User Tracking, Data Visualization, Database Management, Mobile Advertising, Google & Amazon Cloud Services.
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About Central Park Digital: Central Park Digital is New York City’s premier digital marketing, online advertising, & big data analytics firm.
Keeton Storts
Founder & Director of 516 Marketing Inc
Keeton Storts is a creative marketing professional in Fort Worth, TX. Company: He is Founder and Director at 516 Marketing Inc.
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About 516 Marketing Inc: 516 Marketing Inc is a digital marketing agency that delivers effective brand strategy, web design and digital marketing.
Alan Batkin
Board Of Director of Omnicom Group
Mr. Batkin is the Chaiman and Chief Executive Officer of Converse Associates, Inc., a strategic advisory firm. From 2007 to 2012, he was the Vice Chairman of Eton Park Capital Management, L.P., a multi-disciplinary investment firm. From 1990 to 2007, he was Vice Chairman of Kissinger Associates, Inc., a geopolitical consulting firm that advises multi-national companies. Additionally, Mr. Batkin is a director and member of the Audit and Finance Committees of Hasbro, Inc. (listed on Nasdaq), a toy and game company, a director, member of the Audit and Compensation Committees and Presiding Director of Cantel Medical Corp. (listed on NYSE), a provider of infection prevention and control products in the healthcare market and a director, Chairman of the Board and member of the Audit, Conflicts, Nominating, Governance and Compensation Committees of Pattern Energy Group, Inc. (listed on Nasdaq), an independent power company. Mr. Batkin also served as a director of Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc. during the last five years.
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About : Omnicom Group provides advertising and marketing communications services for their clients.
Susan Denison
Board Of Director of Omnicom Group
Ms. Denison is a former partner of Cook Associates, a retained executive search firm, a position she has held since June 2001. In addition, Ms. Denison has served as a director of InterCure, Inc. and LifeonKey Inc. during the last five years. Ms. Denison has more than twenty years of senior executive experience within the Media, Entertainment and Consumer Products Industries. She formerly served as a Partner at TASA Worldwide/Johnson, Smith & Knisely and the Cheyenne Group. She has also served as Executive Vice President, Entertainment and Marketing for Madison Square Garden, Executive Vice President and General Manager at Showtime Networks’ Direct-To-Home Division, Vice President, Marketing for Showtime Networks and Senior Vice President, Revlon. In addition, Ms. Denison previously held marketing positions at Charles of the Ritz, Clairol and Richardson-Vicks.
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About : Omnicom Group provides advertising and marketing communications services for their clients.
Debbie Kissire
Board Of Director of Omnicom Group
Ms. Kissire held multiple senior leadership positions at Ernst & Young during her career from 1979 to 2015, serving most recently as Vice Chair and Regional Managing Partner, member of the Americas Executive Board and member of the Global Practice Group. Other positions held include the U.S. Vice Chair of Sales and Business Development and National Director of Retail and Consumer Products Tax Services. Throughout her career at Ernst & Young, Ms. Kissire’s leadership skills and vision were leveraged for strategic firm initiatives and programs such as their Partner Advisory Council, Strategy Task Force, Gender Equity Task Force, Vision 2000 Sales Task Force, and global Vision 2020. Ms. Kissire also serves as a director and Chair of the Audit Committee of Cable One, Inc. (listed on NYSE), a company that provides customers with cable television, high-speed Internet and telephone services.
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About : Omnicom Group provides advertising and marketing communications services for their clients.
Jasper Lenz Radeke
Sr. Director, Marketing, North America of AppsFlyer
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About AppsFlyer: The world’s top brands use AppsFlyer to build great products, create exceptional experiences, and preserve customer privacy.
Robin Pam
Director of Product Marketing of Optimizely
Robin Pam is the director of product marketing at Optimizely.
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About Optimizely: Optimizely is a platform that provides digital experience solutions.
Tamara Greasby
Director & Data Science of The Trade Desk
Tammy Greasby is Director of Data Science at The Trade Desk where she and her team build scalable data science products to make the internet better. Despite having access to half a petabyte of new data every day (the platform sees about nine million queries every second!), they also spend a lot of time thinking about missing data problems. Tamara has a Ph.D. in Biostatistics and in her free time, loves to trail run. Prior to The Trade Desk she has worked on related problems at Facebook, Snapchat, and Oracle Data Cloud.
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About The Trade Desk: The Trade Desk is an online demand-side platform that provides buying tools for digital media buyers.
Bennett Crumbling
Director – TV of The Trade Desk
Bennett Crumbling leads The Trade Desk’s strategy & business development within the $300B TV advertising ecosystem. Bennett is an angel investor in early stage companies. He is especially interested in data-centric companies that solve logical problems for consumers & knowledge workers inside of industries such as marketing & advertising, media, ecommerce & consumer services and real estate
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About The Trade Desk: The Trade Desk is an online demand-side platform that provides buying tools for digital media buyers.
Vlad Kachur
Co-Founder, Director of Promolta
Vlad Kachur create strong marketing directions to help musicians be seen and establish new fans. Promolta’s co-founder believes every musician deserves to be recognized for his or her talent and hardwork.
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About Promolta: A self service advertising platform to promote videos in targeted blogs, websites, mobile apps, games and social networks.
Dawn Lepore
Member of the Board of Directors of AOL
Dawn Lepore is an advisor to GoodRx.Dawn most recently was CEO and Chairman of the Board of drugstore.com, inc., a leading online retailer of health, beauty, and wellness products, which she led from 2004 until its sale to Walgreens in 2011. Dawn also served as the former Interim Chief Executive Officer at Prosper Marketplace, Inc., a peer-to-peer lending marketplace from March 2012 to January 2013. Prior to joining drugstore.com, Dawn held leadership positions at The Charles Schwab Company, an investment services firm that provides brokerage, banking and investment related services to consumers and businesses. In Dawn’s 21 years with Schwab, Dawn held a variety of roles. Dawn served as Vice Chairman of technology, operations, administration, strategy and active trader, was Chief Information Officer, a member of Schwab’s executive committee and a trustee of SchwabFunds. Dawn serves on the boards of directors of Real Networks, Inc., Coupons.com and TJX Companies, Inc., AOL Inc. and Decide.com.Dawn previously served on the board of directors of eBay Inc. from 1999 to January 2013, The New York Times Company from 2008 to 2011 and drugstore.com, inc. from 2004 to 2011 and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.. Dawn brings to the Board extensive experience, expertise and background in internet commerce and information technology gained from her roles at Schwab and background in building and operating online businesses gained from her service as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of drugstore.com, inc. She also brings public company board experience gained from her service as a board member of Real Networks, Inc., Coupons.com Incorporated and TJX Companies, Inc., eBay Inc., The New York Times Company and drugstore.com, inc.Dawn holds a B.A. Degree from Smith College.
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About : AOL Lifestream is a web-based application that enables users to keep track of all their comments on social networking sites.
Drew Lesicko
General Managar and Director of Product, AOL Alpha of AOL
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About AOL: AOL Lifestream is a web-based application that enables users to keep track of all their comments on social networking sites.
Evan Fribourg
Director of Engineering of AOL
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About AOL: AOL Lifestream is a web-based application that enables users to keep track of all their comments on social networking sites.
Evan Fribourg
Director of Engineering of AOL
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About AOL: AOL Lifestream is a web-based application that enables users to keep track of all their comments on social networking sites.
Arun Mukerjee
Regional Sales Director of Quantcast
Arun Mukerjee is a global sales leader with over a decade of international experience in the Digital Advertising landscape. As Sales Director at Quantcast in New York, Arun and his team of strategic account executives partner with pioneer brands in the b2b space, such as Microsoft, WordPress, Vonage and their agencies, to deeply understand consumer behavior. Leveraging best in class real time programmatic technology, Artificial Intelligence and Big Data, to reach influence, and convert prospective customers.
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About Quantcast: Quantcast helps create a more personalized digital world.
Shane Bliemaster
Managing Director of PHENOMENON
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About PHENOMENON: PHENOMENON is an ideation company that helps brands innovate, generate big ideas, improve experiences, and become part of popular culture.
Lenny Shteynberg
Director of Sales of Open Influence
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About Open Influence: Open Influence is a marketing company that helps brands and advertisers engage and grow their desired audiences through social media.
Sharon Franke
Director Kitchen Appliances and Technology of Hearst Communications
Sharon tests every piece of cooking equipment that could possibly find its way into the American kitchen. Everything from a humble wooden spoon to pots and pans to coffeemakers, toasters, and mixers to ranges and refrigerators falls under her scrutiny. Her background: Before joining GHI, she was a chef in restaurants in the World Trade Center.
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About Good Housekeeping, Hearst Communications: Hearst is large private diversified media, information, and services company with more than 360 businesses
Mayank Kohaley
Director of Engineering of Zeta Global
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About Zeta Global: Zeta offers technology and marketing services to help brands acquire, engage, and retain customers.
Winnie Shen
Senior Director of the Data Cloud of Zeta Global
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About Zeta Global: Zeta offers technology and marketing services to help brands acquire, engage, and retain customers.
Ben DeJarnette
Local Director of WhereBy.Us
Entrepreneurial Journalism Community Manager at LION: Local Independent Online News Publishers.
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About LION: Local Independent Online News Publishers, WhereBy.Us: A platform that enables creators to build a media business for their community.
Mohitosh Negandhi
Director – Programmatic Business of FreakOut Holdings
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About FreakOut Holdings: FreakOut is marketing technology company that develops and sells marketing platforms.
Elizabeth Conway
Sr. Director, Corporate Communications of Clique
Elizabeth Conway is the Director of Communications and Events for Greycroft Partners and is a member of the New York office. Her responsibilities include coordinating all aspects of firm events from networking to business development events to summits and investor conferences. She also handles the firm’s public and media relations, social media implementation and strategy, marketing materials, as well as assisting with portfolio company promotion and PR.
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About Clique, Clique, MERIT Beauty, Versed: Clique is a media and commerce company
Jeremiah Weise
Director, Product Management of Integrate
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About Integrate: Integrate provides a hub for managing and measuring demand generation programs.
Jeremiah Weise
Director, Product Management of Integrate
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About Integrate: Integrate provides a hub for managing and measuring demand generation programs.
Moe Braun
Marketing Director of WaiveCar
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About WaiveCar: Waive’s goal is to bring the cost of mobility to zero by utilizing cutting edge ad tech.
Dan Leitzell
Director, Media Sales of Volta Charging
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About Volta Charging: Volta Charging designs, installs, and maintains a network of electric vehicle charging stations.
Jacob Lange
Director of Operations of Volta Charging
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About Volta Charging: Volta Charging designs, installs, and maintains a network of electric vehicle charging stations.
Emma Chiu
Creative Innovation Director of J Walter Thompson
Emma Chiu leads creative innovation at J. Walter Thompson’s Innovation Group, the agency’s in-house futures and innovation think-tank (JWTIntelligence.com). She curates all visual content, leads creative consultancy, presents across all Innovation Group verticals and she heads up creative execution of Innovation Lab projects. Emma provides strategic insight and trend consultancy for brands including Campari, Finnair, Northwell, Shiseido and Unilever. Emma is on the board of advisers for Digital Hollywood’s Influencer Awards 2018. She was also part of the Color Awards 2017 judging panel and often speaks at international conferences, including Luxe Pack, Pause Fest, The Media Summit, SXSW and Zee Melt. Emma is the former art director of Monocle, leading the art direction and design for the international Monocle brand. She also led project collaborations with brands including, ANA, InterContinental, Mandarin Oriental, Turkish Airlines and UBS.
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About J Walter Thompson: J. Walter Thompson is a New York-based global marketing communications provider with over 200 offices in over 90 countries.
Alexis Sanders
SEO Director of Merkle
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About Merkle: Merkle is a customer relationship management agency that designs, executes and evaluates integrated marketing programs.
Matt Stopera
Deputy Editorial Director of BuzzFeed
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About BuzzFeed: BuzzFeed is a cross-platform digital media company delivering news and entertainment content to a global audience.
Jeff Revesz
Director of Ads Technology of BuzzFeed
Jeff Revesz joined LeafLink as Lead Engineer in 2018 .Web Developer, Data Scientist, Ruby on Rails expert. Serial entrepreneur with two successful exits.
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About BuzzFeed, LeafLink, Yoke: BuzzFeed is a cross-platform digital media company delivering news and entertainment content to a global audience.
Bryan Ngo
Director of Sales Operations of Channel Factory
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About Channel Factory: Channel Factory is the world leader in YouTube brand suitability, content alignment and ad performance.
Jennifer Aden
Director of Sales of Channel Factory
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About Channel Factory: Channel Factory is the world leader in YouTube brand suitability, content alignment and ad performance.
Zack Boone
Senior Director, Accounts and Integrated Marketing of Channel Factory
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About Channel Factory: Channel Factory is the world leader in YouTube brand suitability, content alignment and ad performance.
Dino Vendetti
Founder & Managing Director of Seven Peaks Ventures
Dino has spent his career as an entrepreneur, investor, and exec in leading technology companies and is focused on building and growing the tech eco-system in Oregon. He founded Seven Peaks Ventures in Bend OR to work with and support the most promising entrepreneurs throughout the northwest.
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About OSU-Cascades, Seven Peaks Ventures: Seven Peaks Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund focused on funding highly scalable software businesses.
Jordan Gilbert
Director, Digital Programming of Lionsgate
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About Lionsgate: Lionsgate is a premier next generation global content leader.
Deepak Kandaswamy
Senior Director, Corporate Development & Strategy of A+E Networks
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About A+E Networks: A+E Networks is truly a global media company with joint ventures and channels all over the world.
Jen Taylor
Sr. Director Digital Marketing of A+E Networks
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About A+E Networks: A+E Networks is truly a global media company with joint ventures and channels all over the world.
Chris Hughes
President of Enhance, Director of MobileFuse
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About Enhance, FGL.com, MobileFuse: MobileFuse is a mobile-first ad network offering advanced targeting and ad serving solutions to marketers.
Marlo Palmer
Director, Publisher Rlations of MobileFuse
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About MobileFuse: MobileFuse is a mobile-first ad network offering advanced targeting and ad serving solutions to marketers.
Alexander Strunkin
Director of Product Management, Indeed Incubator of Indeed
Alexander has over 10 years experience building great products. He’s had roles from technical cofounder of a funded startup, to Engineering and Software management roles at Microsoft and Limeade.
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About Indeed, Pioneer Fund: Indeed is an employment-related metasearch engine for job listings.
Anji Greene
Director, Information Security Architecture of Indeed
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About Indeed: Indeed is an employment-related metasearch engine for job listings.
Justin Lo
Director, Business Operations of Indeed
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About Indeed, SumSavy: Indeed is an employment-related metasearch engine for job listings.
Todd Esenwein
Senior Director, Business Services of Cable and Telecommunications Association for Marketing
Todd Esenwein is the senior director of business services for CTAM (the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing). He provides leadership and direction to the CTAM Business Services Council, which addresses B2B growth initiatives and opportunities for the cable industry. He has over 20 years of sales and management experience in the cable and telecommunications industry, successfully managing programs that help business services stakeholders drive growth in this critical sector. Previous to CTAM, he served as the national channel manager at AB&T Telecommunications, responsible for the management and growth of their national partners. He spent 13 years at Comcast Corporation in marketing and sales. Todd holds a B.S. in business administration from Colorado State University and a M.B.A. in management from Strayer University.
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About Cable and Telecommunications Association for Marketing: CTAM is all about strengthening cable’s business by driving results through a mix of cooperative marketing, strategic collaboration
Mike Bowles
Senior Director, Operations of Augeo Marketing
Mike has more than fifteen years of experience within the operations team at Incentive Logic and has become an expert in providing end-to- end incentive rewards fulfillment solutions. His extensive background with incentive solutions has provided him with experience filling roles in customer support, order fulfillment, and merchandising. Mike is responsible for a vast network of vendors and suppliers both domestically and internationally. Mike is a graduate of Christian Brothers University and an avid St. Louis Cardinals fan.
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About Augeo Marketing: Augeo Marketing focus on developing new solutions and innovative technology for clients, employees and their customers.
Suresh Nair
Global Strategic Planning Director of Grey
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About Grey: Grey Group is a global advertising and marketing agency with headquarters in New York City
Jane Reiss
Managing Director of Grey
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About Grey: Grey Group is a global advertising and marketing agency with headquarters in New York City
Christopher Ross
Managing Director of Grey
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About Grey: Grey Group is a global advertising and marketing agency with headquarters in New York City
Christopher Ross
Managing Director of Grey
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About Grey: Grey Group is a global advertising and marketing agency with headquarters in New York City
Cathie Black
Member of the Board of Directors of PubMatic
Cathie Black is a Member of the Board of Directors at PubMatic, Inc. since May 2014. Previously, Cathie served as the Chairman of the Board of Directors and President at Hearst Magazines, a division of Hearst Corporation, from 1996 to 2010. During her tenure at Hearst Magazines, overseeing both the print and digital operations, Cathie steered the global expansion of over 200 publications, among them Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar and Good Housekeeping, as well as launched some of the publishing company’s most successful new titles, including O, The Oprah Winfrey Magazine, and Food Network Magazine and was a strong advocate for digital innovation. Prior to joining Hearst, Black served as President and Chief Executive Officer at the Newspaper Association of America. Cathie also served as President and Publisher of USA Today, joining the newspaper when it was just a year old and was widely credited for helping turn it into the number one newspaper in the U.S. Before her time in the newspaper business, Cathie was the Publisher of New York Magazine, the first woman publisher of a consumer weekly in the country. Cathie began her career in advertising sales. Cathie is also a Member of the Board of Directors at Yieldbot, Bark & Co (Bark Box), and Pinks and Greens, among others. Cathie served as a Member of the Board of Directors at The Coca-Cola Company, Gannett Co. Inc., Hearst Corporation and IBM. Cathie is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Author of the best-selling book Basic Black and has appeared on Forbes and Fortune’s lists of the most powerful women in business on numerous occasions. Cathie is a Graduate (B.S. in English Literature) of Trinity College, Washington, D.C. and holds ten honorary degrees.
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About : PubMatic is an automation solutions company for an open digital media industry.
Craig Hughes
Corporate Development Director of Unruly
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About Unruly, Unruly: Unruly is an advertising technology company that gets videos watched, tracked, and shared across the Open Web.
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.
Trevor McGraw
Director, Sales of Appcast
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About Appcast: Appcast is a job advertising platform that enables employers to promote their open positions.
Doug Campbell
Co-Founder Managing Director of BrandStar
Doug Campbell, a founding partner of O2 Media is currently the Chief Growth Officer for the hit morning talk shows The Balancing Act® hosted by Julie Moran and Designing Spaces®, our signature home improvement television series. In 1994, Campbell and Alfieri co-founded the company that began as O2 Media, a pioneer in branded entertainment and now as BrandStar, continues to be a Leader in Branded Content Marketing. Over the past 20 years, Doug has become an innovator within the Branded Marketing space. He has created, developed and produced hundreds of award-winning, educational television programs that have entertained, engaged and uplifted millions of viewer’s nationwide. A native Michigander, Campbell moved to South Florida in 1987. He attended Florida International University and Nova Southeastern University with studies in media, management and law.
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About BrandStar, BrandStar: BrandStar is a content marketing and customer experience agency.
Colin Burns
Global Senior Director, Customer Success (Operations and Center of Excellence) of Sprinklr
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About Sprinklr: Sprinklr provides enterprise software for customer experience management.
Shane Small
Executive Creative Director of eko
As Executive Creative Director at Interlude, Shane wrote and created award-winning projects for artists and brands such as CeeLo Green and CocaCola, and is currently working on Interlude’s first VR project, set to launch in 2016. Shane’s background highlights his passion for different and immersive content; Exploding Kittens, which he created and produced, is the game with the highest number of Kickstarter backers to date. At Xbox Entertainment Studios, he worked on original interactive Movies and TV shows for the Xbox gaming console. Prior to that, amongst other things, he co-founded Edoc Laundry, the first interactive clothing brand, where hidden messages and codes in the clothing unlocked murder mystery video content online, and Funtini, where he developed top mobile hits for Marvel & Disney.
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About eko: eko is media and technology company pioneering a new medium in which stories told in live action video are shaped by viewers as they unfold.
John Zietzke
Senior Director, Media & Operations of TargetClose
Transitioning from cable & data network sales in 2002, John Zietzke has more than 11 years of digital marketing, demand generation, and online customer acquisition experience across search, email, affiliate, display, and social media. Prior to joining TargetClose, John served as director of online media for Experian’s direct-to-consumer credit and identity protection division where he managed over $75 million in annual marketing budget and led brand response strategy with key partners including Google/YouTube, Yahoo, AOL, and MSN. Before Experian, John played in integral role in growing Fonality, an early stage B2B VoIP technology company, from zero revenue to over $50 million in annual sales, where he oversaw strategic partnerships and digital marketing. Having a taste for entrepreneurship and business strategy John has also operated his own B2B lead generation business and consulted for a variety of companies in the real estate, finance, technology, and health sectors to help them design, launch, and optimize their direct response and search marketing strategies. John holds a bachelors degree from Loyola Marymount University and an MBA from the University of Southern California’s Marshall School.
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About TargetClose: Our business focuses on efficiently delivering customers for direct to consumer brands.
Vinoth Gopinathan
Senior Director Of Data Operations of Hearst Digital Media
Senior Director Of Engineering at Hearst Magazines.
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About Hearst Digital Media: Hearst Magazines Digital Media oversees the 20+ digital magazine properties including Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, etc.
Kate Lewis
SVP & Editorial Director of Hearst Digital Media
Kate Lewis is the Senior Vice President and Editorial Director at Hearst Digital Media, responsible for managing the digital editorial teams for worldwide brands such as Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar and Good Housekeeping. In the US, these sites attract more than 200 million unique visitors monthly. Prior to Hearst, Lewis worked at Say Media in a similar role, overseeing content strategy and operations for a number of Say’s own sites including xoJane, Remodelista, and ReadWrite, as well as a number of network sites. Originally a print editor, she spent 18 years at Conde Nast working on brands like Vanity Fair, Glamour, and SELF.
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About Hearst Digital Media, Hearst Digital Media: Hearst Magazines Digital Media oversees the 20+ digital magazine properties including Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, etc.
Yan Li
Director Of Engineering of Conviva
Yan is an Engineering Manager at Conviva, where she has been working on various projects in the area of Internet video streaming, and has built several products used by content publishers and ecosystem partners to monitor and optimize the experience of millions of end viewers. Yan holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Connecticut.
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About Conviva: Conviva is the continuous measurement and engagement platform for streaming media.
James Barrese
Member of the Board of Directors of Marin Software
Barrese is a technologist with more than 25 years of experience spanning the military, the academic world, business consulting, and enterprise platforms and infrastructure. He currently serves as CTO of PayPal, and previously spent nearly 10 years in executive technology roles at eBay, where he was most recently VP of Technology. Earlier in his career, he was VP of engineering at Charitableway, a manager at Andersen Consulting, and programmer in the Materials Science Department at Stanford University. He got his start in technology with the Signal Corps in the U.S. Army. He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.
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About : Marin Software Incorporated (NYSE:MRIN) provides a leading cross-channel performance advertising platform used by advertisers and agencies.
Daina Middleton
Member of the Board of Directors of Marin Software
Daina Middleton is a Chief Executive Officer at Britelite Immersive. Middleton has served on our board of directors since October 2014. Middleton is an organization effectiveness coach with the Larcen Consulting Group. Prior to this role, Middleton was the Head of Business Marketing at Twitter, Inc., a social media and communications platform, from May 2014 until January 2016. Before joining Twitter, she was Chief Executive Officer of Performics, Inc., a performance marketing agency, from January 2010 to May 2014. Prior to that, Middleton served as Senior Vice President at Moxie Interactive, an interactive marketing agency, from 2008 to 2010, and earlier in her career, she worked at Hewlett-Packard for 16 years in advertising and marketing roles of increasing responsibility. Middleton received a B.S. in Technical Journalism from Oregon State University. Middleton brings to the board of directors her expertise in the digital marketing space built over more than 20 years in the industry as well as her experience in general management and executive leadership
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About Ansira, Ansira, BIGtoken, Britelite Immersive, Madison Logic, PrismWork: Marin Software Incorporated (NYSE:MRIN) provides a leading cross-channel performance advertising platform used by advertisers and agencies.
Donald Hutchison
Member of the Board of Directors of Marin Software
Since 2002, Don’s principal employment has been as an angel investor in start-up technology companies. From June 2006 to July 2008, Don was the Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Recurrent Energy, a solar energy provider. Prior to that, Don served as the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of work.com, a joint venture established by Dow Jones and Excite@Home. Don previously served in senior positions at Excite@Home and Netcom Communications. Don has previously served as a member of the board of directors of many privately-held companies, including, W&W Communications, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, which was acquired by Cavium, Inc. Don holds a B.A. in Economics from University of California, Santa Barbara, and an M.B.A. in Finance and Organizational Development from Loyola Marymount University. Don brings to our board of directors significant experience analyzing and investing in other technology companies, as well as management and leadership experience as a former founder and executive of technology companies.
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About : Marin Software Incorporated (NYSE:MRIN) provides a leading cross-channel performance advertising platform used by advertisers and agencies.
Kevin Berg
Chairman of the Board of Directors of Legacy Marketing Partners
Kevin Berg is a Chairman of the Board of Directors at Legacy Marketing Partners.
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About : Legacy Marketing Partners is an independent brand experience agency that offers its customers with event marketing and digital campaigns.
Bruce Turner
Director, Information Technology of Legacy Marketing Partners
Bruce Turner is a Director, Information Technology at Legacy Marketing Partners.
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About Legacy Marketing Partners: Legacy Marketing Partners is an independent brand experience agency that offers its customers with event marketing and digital campaigns.
Tony Nestorovski
Director, Accounting of Legacy Marketing Partners
Tony Nestorovski is a Director, Accounting at Legacy Marketing Partners.
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About Legacy Marketing Partners: Legacy Marketing Partners is an independent brand experience agency that offers its customers with event marketing and digital campaigns.
Craig Ducker
Account Director of Legacy Marketing Partners
Craig Ducker is a Account Director at Legacy Marketing Partners.
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About Legacy Marketing Partners, TEAM enterprises: Legacy Marketing Partners is an independent brand experience agency that offers its customers with event marketing and digital campaigns.
Doreen Toben
Member of the Board of Directors of The New York Times
Doreen Augustinus Toben is the Member of the Board of Directors at The New York Times Company since 2004. Previously, Doreen served as Executive Vice President of Verizon Communications, Inc. from February 2009 until her retirement from the company in June 2009. From 2002 to February 2009, Doreen was Verizon’s Chief Financial Officer and was responsible for its finance and strategic planning efforts. Prior to 2002, Doreen was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer with responsibility for finance and strategic planning for Verizon’s Telecom Group. Doreen has over 25 years of experience in the communications industry. Doreen began her career at AT&T Corp. and over the years held various positions of increasing responsibility primarily in treasury, strategic planning and finance both there and beginning in 1984, at Bell Atlantic Inc. Doreen’s later positions at Bell Atlantic included Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Bell Atlantic-New Jersey in 1993, Vice President of Finance and Controller in 1995, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Telecom/Network in 1997 and Vice President and Controller in 1999. Doreen is also a Member of the Board of Directors of ARRIS Group Inc., Verizon Media and Kate Spade & Company. Doreen earned her MBA in Finance and Marketing from Fairleigh Dickinson University and her B.A. degree in Political Science from Rosemont College.
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About : The New York Times creates, collects, and distributes news, information, and entertainment through a daily newspaper and a website.
Michael Young
Director of Machine Learning Engineering of The New York Times
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About Columbia University, The New York Times: The New York Times creates, collects, and distributes news, information, and entertainment through a daily newspaper and a website.
Graham Roberts
Director of Immersive Platforms Storytelling of The New York Times
Graham Roberts is a journalist at The New York Times, focusing on innovation in visual communication. As Director of Immersive Platforms Storytelling, he leads a team that explores new approaches in video, motion graphics, and virtual/augmented reality.
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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.
Erin White
Sales Director of Vistar Media
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About Vistar Media: Vistar Media turns movement data into actionable insights about consumer behavior.
Eric Lamb
Director, Publisher Solutions of Vistar Media
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About Vistar Media: Vistar Media turns movement data into actionable insights about consumer behavior.
Christopher Alvares
Director of Product & Engineering of PMG
Chris Alvares loves building products, and collaborating with brands and engineers to create a mix of data and art. As the senior product and innovation lead at PMG, Chris has been instrumental in PMG’s growth into the digital industry’s leader in data- and technology-driven breakthroughs. His work has been leveraged by brands like Apple, J.Crew, and Sephora to drive team and workflow efficiencies, deeper data insights, and material business results. Chris is also a rarity among the engineering world he resides in, in that he holds a degree in business administration, with a focus on marketing.
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About PMG: PMG is a digital agency that uses strategy, creative, media, and insights to deliver against its mantra of Digital Made for Humans™.
Kathy Crawford
Member of the Board of Directors of WideOrbit
Kathy is a 30 year veteran of the local broadcast business. She started her career in the TV rep business before moving to the station side at WTTG in Washington. After a seven year stint in Los Angeles with Western International Media as a broadcast supervisor, Kathy returned to sales at TeleRep and Petry TV. In 1987, she rejoined Western and founded its Direct Response division. In 1998 Kathy became EVP, Director of Local Broadcast for Western International (now Initiative Media) where in 2001 she earned the Media All Star award for Spot Television. In 2003 she was named President of Local Broadcast at MindShare, a position she held through 2008. Kathy was named a Media Maven in 2003.
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About : WideOrbit provides advertising management software for major media companies.
Sabeena Lalwani
Senior Director of Xandr
Sabeena Lalwani is the director of ITGRC and audit assurance at [AppNexus](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/appnexus#/entity), a cloud-based software platform that supports and optimizes programmatic online advertising. Prior to that, he was the director of system operations and ITGRC, as well as the director of IT GRC and information security at the same company. Lalwani obtained a certificate in information systems from The University of Hong Kong and a bachelor’s degree in marketing from Hofstra University.
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About Xandr: Xandr is an advertising company.
Stacy Chan
Senior Director Programmatic Solutions of Accuen
Stacy is the Programmatic Solutions Director and Regional Programmatic Discipline lead for Resolution Media. She manages and influences key partnerships across publishers, advertising technologies, and vendors to drive curated client results and success. During her tenure, she has worked on Audi, Bleecker Street Media, Newell, MailChimp and HBO. Prior to joining the Resolution family, she worked on a variety of accounts including, H&R Block, Dominos, McDonalds, Royal Caribbean, Jaguar, Land Rover, and Bacardi. With a passion for volunteering and charity work, Stacy is an active member of Project by Project and Hope For New York. Feeding the local community through The Bowery Mission is one of her favorite weekly activities to give back. Stacy holds an Economics and International Studies degree from the University of California Irvine. In her free time, she enjoys travelling and cooking.
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About Accuen, PHD Worldwide: Accuen is Omnicom Media Group’s programmatic agency.
Bess Fergusson
Global Director of Mirum
Bess has over a decade of global experience seeding and driving people-led change programs within organizations that recognize and embrace the need for evolution of the workplace and corporate culture. She applies her vast international experience and strong vision bringing the future workplace and work culture to life. She has worked with iconic brands including Yellow Pages Australia, Sensis (Telstra Australia), Coles Supermarkets, Penguin Books and J. Walter Thompson Company, leading distributed teams for technology, production, marketing and human resources operations programs. Bess speaks fluent Spanish and occasionally tries (and fails) to speak other languages. Originally from Australia, Bess has lived and worked.
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About Mirum: Mirum is a global agency created with a pioneering spirit.
Bess Fergusson
Global Director of Mirum
Bess has over a decade of global experience seeding and driving people-led change programs within organizations that recognize and embrace the need for evolution of the workplace and corporate culture. She applies her vast international experience and strong vision bringing the future workplace and work culture to life. She has worked with iconic brands including Yellow Pages Australia, Sensis (Telstra Australia), Coles Supermarkets, Penguin Books and J. Walter Thompson Company, leading distributed teams for technology, production, marketing and human resources operations programs. Bess speaks fluent Spanish and occasionally tries (and fails) to speak other languages. Originally from Australia, Bess has lived and worked.
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About Mirum: Mirum is a global agency created with a pioneering spirit.
Jake Schwartz
Board of Directors of Societe BIC
Independent Director, Member of the Audit Committee
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About Brave Health, Societe BIC: BIC produces and markets consumer products such as stationery, lighters, promotional products, shavers, printed paper products, and more.
Savannah Bridge
Director of Client Happiness of Affinity.is
If you said that you saw our Director of Happiness, Savannah Bridge, with anything but a smile on her face… I would call you a liar. She has a positive attitude with every problem she faces and the ability to troubleshoot just about anything! Glass half full? Ask Savannah…and she would say it is. To top it off, Savannah has done it all! Seriously. She’s been in customer service…worked in a restaurant…a clothing stores…a shoe store…a plant nursery….a university student center…a ceramic painting studio….even a ZOO! Talk about well-rounded. She also graduated from Philadelphia University in 2009 with a BS in Interior Design, so when we’re picking out colors for our office walls, we know where to turn. How did she end up with Affinity you ask? After leaving school Savannah discovered her passion for web/graphic design…even going as far as teaching herself HTML when she first moved to Seattle (Savannah is not a Seattle native…she actually grew up in Colorado where her family still resides). She started her last role at Thinkspace where she was an admin assistant, but like I said before, with that go-get-em’ attitude Savannah was the Director of Operations by the time she left. While there she was able to nurture her love of customer service (yes, I said love) and technology. Affinity really has gained a gem in the way of Savannah Bridge. Savannah spends most days ensuring clients are beyond thrilled with both the Affinity.IS team and our core offerings. Away from the “office” her hobbies are about as lengthy as her resume. Whether at home or traveling the US, she continues to spread the happy with her long-time boyfriend and friends. She loves to cook, including her favorite recipes of Bridgeritos (yup, a totally made up name) and chili. Running? Ya, she loves to do that too…any 5/10k that has a cool theme (like jingle bells, bubbles, even chocolate) and Savannah is down. But best part of all? She loves to get a little nerdy. Yup, she is a self-proclaimed nerd. Video games? Comic books? Sci-fi? Savannah loves it all and here at Affinity, we love her!
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About Affinity.is: Affinity.is helps retailers attract more customers through a customer rewarding system that involve celebrities.
Leif Kirchoff
Director, Engineering of Mediaocean
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About Mediaocean: Mediaocean provides software platforms for the advertising community.
Jeff Aucone
Director/Senior Consultant Worldwide Data & Insight of NetProspex
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About NetProspex: NetProspex is a provider of B2B marketing data services and data management.
Marc Mordoh
Managing Director of Upwardly Group
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About Upwardly Group: Upwardly offers campaign management services to agencies and firms that don’t employee a dedicated ad-serving staff.
