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 Director operating in the Content 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.
Maxwell Peters
Director of Talent of POPSUGAR
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About POPSUGAR: PopSugar is an online network of websites that offers updates, trends, and tips in entertainment, fashion, parenting, fitness, and shopping.
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.
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.
Kade Speiser
Director of Content of TeamDom
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About TeamDom: TeamDom is a media conglomerate that builds brands, stories, celebrities, and businesses around teen entertainment and media.
George Ng
Director of Finance of Automattic
George started his career in investment banking, but six years in, he realized his clients were having way more fun at the other side of the table.He jumped to the dark side of technology start-ups, and hasn’t looked back since.He currently leads the finance team at Automattic, and spends his time engineering all things finance.He also is a recipient of Automattic’s Distinguished Janitor Award (true story). George is a native San Franciscan, so trust him when he says “don’t call it Frisco”.
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About Automattic: Automattic develops publishing platforms, including the WordPress.com website and the VIP WordPress.com cloud version.
Nikao Yang
Director, Global Business Solutions of TikTok
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About Opera Mediaworks, TikTok: TikTok is a short-video sharing app and social network platform that develops a lip-syncing video application to create videos.
David Lieber
Director, Privacy Policy Counsel of TikTok
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About TikTok: TikTok is a short-video sharing app and social network platform that develops a lip-syncing video application to create videos.
Christa Garcia
Director of Agile Leadership of Three Five Two
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About Three Five Two: 352 is an innovation and growth firm.
Christa Garcia
Director of Agile Leadership of Three Five Two
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About Three Five Two: 352 is an innovation and growth firm.
Amy Tenderich
Editorial Director, Diabetes & Patient Advocacy at Healthline.com of Healthline Media
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About DiabetesMine.com, DiabetesMine.com, Healthline Media: Healthline Media is the 2nd largest and fastest growing consumer health publisher in the world, reaching 85 million people a month.
John Engerholm
Senior Managing Director of Globant
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About Globant, Virtusa: Globant is a digitally native technology services company building a new way of being digital.
Chris Brummel
Director of Design of Globant
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About Globant, L4 Digital: Globant is a digitally native technology services company building a new way of being digital.
Brian Spittler
Senior Director of Brand and Communications of Contentful
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About Contentful, Contentful, Podium: Contentful offers a headless content management system that helps organizations deliver content across channels.
Kyle Britt
Director, Brand Strategy & Management, Bankrate of Red Ventures
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About Red Ventures: A portfolio of influential brands, digital platforms, and strategic partnerships that help people make life’s most important decisions.
Joshua Leibner
Director, Paid Media of Red Ventures
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About Boost Ventures, Red Ventures: A portfolio of influential brands, digital platforms, and strategic partnerships that help people make life’s most important decisions.
Sean Murphy
Director of Red Ventures
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About : A portfolio of influential brands, digital platforms, and strategic partnerships that help people make life’s most important decisions.
Melody Petulla
Director of SEO, B2B of Red Ventures
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About Red Ventures: A portfolio of influential brands, digital platforms, and strategic partnerships that help people make life’s most important decisions.
Melody Petulla
Director of SEO, B2B of Red Ventures
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About Red Ventures: A portfolio of influential brands, digital platforms, and strategic partnerships that help people make life’s most important decisions.
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.
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
Kristen Dennesen
Director, Cyber Threat Intelligence of Sony Pictures Entertainment
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About Sony Pictures Entertainment: Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) is a subsidiary of Sony Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Sony Corporation.
Nadya Ichinomiya
Exec Director – Head of Agile Center of Excellence, CFO Corporate Functions of Sony Pictures Entertainment
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About Sony Pictures Entertainment: Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) is a subsidiary of Sony Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Sony Corporation.
Timothy Park
Director Data Management of Sony Pictures Entertainment
A versatile, organized collaborator and manager with proven skills in analyzing big data, identifying trends and translating into actionable insights, developing teams, KPIs, dashboards and catalyzing an analytics culture, and formulating strategies and clearly presenting recommendations to C-suite.
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About Prenostik, Sony Pictures Entertainment: Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) is a subsidiary of Sony Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Sony Corporation.
Aditya Tahilramani
Vice President of Information Technology & IT Director of Sony Pictures Entertainment
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About Sony Pictures Entertainment: Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) is a subsidiary of Sony Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Sony Corporation.
Jason Lambert
Executive Director, Content Licensing & Metadata of Sony Pictures Entertainment
Jason Lambert is Executive Director of Content Licensing and Metadata Services at Sony Pictures Entertainment. In his role, he is responsible for business development, content acquisition, and operations for the studio’s film clip, still image, and stock footage licensing business. In addition, he leads the in-house metadata services team charged with creating Sony Pictures’ time-based metadata repository. This repository of metadata and digital assets is utilized by stakeholders throughout the studio to identify licensable, memorable, and/or marketable moments from within SPE’s full length feature catalog. The repository also supports compliance activities related to film clip use and helps power enhanced consumer experiences for SPE’s home entertainment and digital streaming services.
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About Sony Pictures Entertainment: Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) is a subsidiary of Sony Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Sony Corporation.
Vikas Tandon
Director of Product Management Mobility and IoT of Tata Communications
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About Tata Communications: Tata Communications, a member of the $62.5 billion Tata Group, leverages its advanced solutions capabilities and domain expertise across
David Pepe
Director Strategy & Business Development of Tata Communications
David Pepe Director Strategy & Business Development at Tata Communications.
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About Tata Communications: Tata Communications, a member of the $62.5 billion Tata Group, leverages its advanced solutions capabilities and domain expertise across
Jordan Gilbert
Director, Digital Programming of Lionsgate
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About Lionsgate: Lionsgate is a premier next generation global content leader.
Adam Rifkin
Co-founder, Director, and Co-CEO of PandaWhale
Adam Rifkin is co-founder and CEO of [PandaWhale](http://pandawhale.com/), an online community of interesting things and people. He is also co-founder of a 8000-person network of startup founders and engineers called [106 miles](http://meetup.com/106miles), which meets monthly in Silicon Valley, San Francisco, and Southern California. From 2005 to 2009, Adam spent most of his time as co-founder and CEO of venture-backed startup [Renkoo](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/renkoo). Renkoo made Facebook and MySpace applications that were enjoyed by more than 36 million people. Adam also worked on an open source real-time Web server project called mod-pubsub with Joyce Park, his Renkoo co-founder. Adam’s career began in the 1990’s with over seven years of work at Caltech on a doctoral fellowship, sponsored in part by Microsoft and IBM. His research explored Internet-scale publish/subscribe systems and ancillary Internet-scale Event Notification Services. He left Caltech in 1999 before completing his PhD to found enterprise software company KnowNow with Rohit Khare. Adam served [KnowNow](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/knownow) in several roles over five years, including CTO, COO, VP Marketing, and VP Engineering — wherever the company most needed him at any given time. He left day-to-day operations of KnowNow in mid 2004 and joined [CommerceNet](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/commercenet), where he served as Director of Open Source Initiatives until early 2005, when he joined Joyce Park in founding Renkoo. Adam’s fifteen years of industry experience include research and development engagements at Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, the Air Force, and NASA-Langley. Adam also worked on consulting assignments for companies such as Canon, Nextel, and Sun, as Founder and Principal of 4K Associates, an alliance of Internet professionals offering strategy consulting to organizations of all sizes. Adam has authored over 30 publications in distributed & decentralized systems and event-driven architectures, receiving Best Paper awards at the IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing and the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Adam graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science from the College of William and Mary; has a pair of Master’s degrees (one east coast, one west coast); and was certified as an Engineering Manager from the Caltech Industrial Relations Center in 1995. Adam’s hobbies include blogging, tweeting, letting go, falling down, reflecting, simplifying, breathing, affirming, and connecting.
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About PandaWhale, REFUNITE: PandaWhale is a consumer internet service for consuming, saving and organizing content found on the web and social networks.
Jenny Barna
Director of Launch of Spire Global
Jenny is the Launch Manager at Spire, a satellite powered data company headquartered in San Francisco, CA. Jenny comes to Spire from SSL, where she supported new business pursuits and programs, focused on smallsats and hosted payloads. Prior to joining SSL, Jenny spent almost 10 years as a launch vehicle propulsion engineer at Orbital in Chandler, Arizona, where she led an integrated propulsion team on many successful launches of the Orbital Boost Vehicle (OBV) and the development and qualification of propulsion subsystems for the two-stage variant of OBV. Jenny has an Aerospace Engineering degree from Arizona State University.
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About Spire Global: Spire Global is a space to cloud data analytics company utilizing satellites to provide maritime, aviation, and weather tracking.
Michael Kirchhoff
Senior Director – Content of BrightEdge
Michael has been a Digital Media technology Professional since 1996. Michael’s emphasis has been to create websites that build and engage audiences and produce revenue. As a hands-on executive, Michael has extensive experience bridging the gap between marketing and technology. In his career, Michael has led global SEO, PPC, Content Marketing and Social Media strategies to achieve a companies audience and revenue goals. His experience with numerous Content Management Systems and his thirst for technology has enabled him to build taxonomies and intelligent content strategies and solutions that served as a foundation for scaling organic search traffic, improved on-site visits, CTR and user experiences for personalization and semantic display. Outside of Michael’s geeky goodness, he is active in exercise, travel, speaking engagements and family.
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About BrightEdge: BrightEdge, an SEO platform delivering an uplifted ROI, enables marketers to increase revenue from organic search.
Phoebe Connelly
Deputy Director, Video of Washington Post
Phoebe Connelly serves as deputy director of video at The Washington Post.
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About Washington Post: Washington Post is an American newspaper and website that features news insights on various topics.
Greg Barber
Director of News Product of Washington Post
Greg Barber is Director of News Product at The Washington Post Company.
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About Vox Media, Washington Post: Washington Post is an American newspaper and website that features news insights on various topics.
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.
Michaela Lehr
Sr. Director, Strategic Finance & Analytics of Movable Ink
Michaela Lehr is Sr. Director of Strategic Finance & Analytics at Movable Ink, a marketing personalization startup based in NYC. She is responsible for the business forecasting, metrics-driven insights and comp design for the company. Prior to Movable, Michaela worked in FP&A at Oscar Health and Knewton.
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About Movable Ink: Movable Ink activates any data into personalized content in any customer engagement.
Kelly Carroll
Founder & Creative Director of Literati
Kelly is a writer, book artist, and designer. While completing an MFA in fiction at Brown University, she pursued interdisciplinary coursework in book arts at Rhode Island School of Design. Prior to graduate work, Kelly was Lead Designer at Hawaii Life. She earned a B.A. in English & Comparative Literature from Columbia University. She is a recipient of the Weston Prize and Frances Mason Harris Prize for her writing. As a mother, Kelly wants to ensure that her son has a lifelong relationship to the alchemical space wherein literature, art and the book unite.
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About Literati: Literati is a curated book subscription service that brings profound stories and impactful discussions monthly to every reader
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™.
Tom Arrix
Director of Flashstock Technology
Mr. Arrix is the former Facebook Vice President of Global Marketing Solutions, US. At Facebook he was one of the first 20 employees and helped develop marketing relationships with brands like Walmart, American Express, JPMorgan Chase, & Coca-Cola to name a few.
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About Get Joy Food: Not an agency, not a stock house, not UGC: FlashStock provides custom imagery & videos at scale for leading brands.
Nick Venezia
Managing Director of Social Outlier
Nick has worked with clients from a multitude of industries–including finance, government, technology, entertainment, non-profit, luxury, Fortune 500, Global 100, and many more–building digital assets that convert directly into increased profit margins. He has generated over 130% engagement on ads with over 20,000 engagement on Twitter. He spent under $49 to garner $21,000 in tickets sales for a local event in 3 days. @socialoutlier
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About Social Outlier: Social Outlier is unique we have a refined acumen, a scientific numerical approach.
Bill Burke
Director, U.S. Video and Audio Products of The Associated Press
Bill Burke is responsible for global product management of AP’s suite of online video products, including the subscription-based video and the Online Video Network (OVN). Subscription clips are produced for media and other digital companies around the world, while the OVN is an online video network of about 2,000 newspapers and television and radio stations in the U.S. Burke joined AP in 1997 and until 2007 was Product Manager for ENPS, AP’s newsroom computer system, directing software development and managing enterprise installations such as Tribune and ESPN. Before joining AP, Burke was a news director, manager, and producer at several South Florida television stations, and at WIS-TV in South Carolina.
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About The Associated Press: The Associated Press is a source of independent newsgathering, supplying a steady stream of news to its members, and more.
Stuart Myles
Director of Information Management of The Associated Press
Stuart Myles is the Director of Information Management at The Associated Press. He directs metadata strategy throughout AP’s global news operations. He oversees the AP’s bespoke taxonomy and categorization rules and the use of XML and JSON to structure and model the news that AP creates and distributes. Recent projects include designing AP’s API services for news content and elections data and architecting AP’s Digital News Archive for over 200 million items dating back to 1985. He is Chairman of the Board of the IPTC, where he has co-authored standards for the news industry, including rNews for embedding publishing metadata into HTML and RightsML for representing permissions and restrictions for news content.
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About The Associated Press: The Associated Press is a source of independent newsgathering, supplying a steady stream of news to its members, and more.
Ken Romano
Director, Text & Multimedia Products of The Associated Press
Ken Romano is the Product Director at Associated Press.
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About The Associated Press: The Associated Press is a source of independent newsgathering, supplying a steady stream of news to its members, and more.
David Bishop Media
Board of Directors of Parrot Analytics
David Bishop is a visionary entertainment and digital media industry leader, adept at building customer-centric organizations to high levels of employee engagement and profits. David has a proud history of success anticipating market demands and launching new products to maximize revenue. He claims a substantial talent for devising solutions to complicated challenges. David Bishop is passionate about identifying and creating new distribution technologies and highly successful business models. He is articulate, analytical, and intuitive.
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About : Parrot Analytics is a data science company that measures and predicts global demand for content, across all platforms, around the world.
Kenneth Scott
Founder/Art Director of Drifter Entertainment
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About Drifter Entertainment: Drifter Entertainment is banking heavily on the growth and intersection of two still unproven fields.
Rishi Rasane
Director & Producer of ADVIDS
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About ADVIDS: ADVIDS is an online platform and concierge service to produce web videos.
Shannon Rudd
Director of Digital Operations of PageScience
Shannon Rudd has lead Digital Operations and Strategy teams for Bonnier Corporation and Rodale Inc. and brings over 10 years of digital media experience to PageScience. While at Bonnier, Shannon was the General Manager, Digital Business Development overseeing Digital Sales, Marketing and Operations for the Men’s Group of brands and lead digital to an 8x increase in revenue for The Parenting Group prior to its sale to Meredith Corp. Shannon has built Digital Strategy and Implementation teams from the ground-up at global multi-platform media companies, and is known for her keen ability to spot shifting digital trends in the industry and build new revenue streams against them for multi-channel revenue growth. Prior to her time at Bonnier, Shannon was part of Rodale’s Digital General Management Team. Earlier in her career, Shannon was part of Digital Operations teams at Prohaska Consulting, Undertone Networks and Haymarket Media. Additionally, Shannon has lectured on Operations Strategy for NYU’s M.S. in Integrated Marketing Program.
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About PageScience: PageScience has evolved as a source for cookieless page-level scoring and targeting.
Craig Smith
Director of Marketing of Jack Morton Worldwide
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About Jack Morton Worldwide: Jack Morton Worldwide is an American multinational brand experience agency.
Michael Elhadad
R&D Director and Co-Founder of Dalet
Michael Elhadad works as R and D Director and Co-Founder at Dalet.
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About Dalet: Dalete is a leading media technology and service provider with over three decades of innovation.
Christopher Hyland
Chairman of the Board of Directors of Hyland Software
Christopher Hyland is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Chris joined the company in 1992 and has served on the Board of Directors since 1993 and as Chairman of the Board of Directors since 2002; Executive Vice President since 2001; Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer since 1994. Chris is Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors at University Hospitals Case Medical Center where he also serves on the Nominating and Finance Committee and is the Chairman of the President’s Advisory Committee. Chris is a Member of the Board of Trustees for the Cleveland Orchestra and serves on the Orchestra’s Finance Committee. Chris also serves on the Business Advisory Council to the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. Chris is a Member of the Board of Directors of Workflow.com, a software company that creates electronic health record software for primary and specialty care providers. Additionally, Chris is a Member of the National Leadership Council for Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital and is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors. Chris earned his B.A. in Economics from Ohio Wesleyan University.
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About Hyland Software: Hyland Software provides organizations with the tools and vertical expertise to practice paperless operations.
Rick Mangi
Senior Director of Data Engineering of Chartbeat
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About Chartbeat: Chartbeat tools measure and monetize website visitors’ attention and engagement on page content and advertising.
Jared Kopf
Member of Board of Directors of Bazaarvoice
Jared Kopf has served as a member of our board of directors since May 2015 and has been a private investor in technology companies since 2009. Previously he was the Vice President in Product Innovation and Corporate Strategy for Rearden Commerce, Inc., a provider of online consumer and business-oriented commerce services, from September 2011 to May 2012 and the Founder and CEO of HomeRun.com, a members-only online social buying club, from November 2009 through August 2011. Prior to founding HomeRun.com, Kopf co-founded AdRoll, Inc., an advertising technology company, in 2006, where he served as CEO from March 2006 to March 2009 and President from March 2009 to January 2010. Kopf also served as a co-founder of Slide, Inc., a social media application developer, from 2005 to 2006. Kopf received a B.A. from Stanford University. He currently serves on the board and is Chairman of AdRoll.
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About : Bazaarvoice helps brands capture, analyze and act upon social data, and enables authentic customer-powered marketing.
Justine Karp
Director of MediaLink
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About MediaLink: MediaLink is a strategic advisory firm that provides strategic advisory and implementation services to companies at all stages.
Brett Kassan Smith
Managing Director of MediaLink
Brett Kassan Smith began her career in the publicity industry. While working at Hypnotic, she managed marketing programs, special events and public relations working for clients such as Chrysler, Reebok, Coca Cola and Nintendo. After serving as a marketing manager for Dennis Publishing, Smith joined Bragman, Nyman, Cafarelli as Head of Events in the firm’s New York office. There she managed, produced, and oversaw all of the marketing and branding events as well as marketing and sponsorship promotions for BNC’s clientele. Most recently, Smith served as director of Integrated Marketing Services at Condé Nast Media Group. Responsible for the oversight of merchandising and promotion efforts, Smith produced integrated marketing programs for corporate clients in categories including automotive, financial, beauty, technology, travel, pharmaceuticals, and fashion. She also led in the implementation and execution of various Condé Nast Media Group programs in addition to customized programs for clients like Dove, Lexus, Bayer Pharmaceuticals, and Philips.
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About MediaLink: MediaLink is a strategic advisory firm that provides strategic advisory and implementation services to companies at all stages.
Andrew White
Director & Vice President of MediaLink
Andrew White joined MediaLink in 2016, bringing eight years of expertise in M&A advisory, business development and corporate strategy. Andrew is responsible for advising strategic and financial investors in evaluating specific assets or sectors. Andrew’s experience at leading media conglomerates and high-growth startups has prepared him well for the diverse client base at MediaLink. His previous role was in the Strategy & Corporate Development group at Advance Publications, where he was responsible for identifying and executing acquisitions and investments on behalf of the company and as part of strategic diversification initiatives. Andrew also supported Advance’s affiliated companies (Condé Nast, Advance Newspapers, American City Business Journals, Brighthouse Networks, Reddit, etc.) on the planning and execution of their long-term growth strategies. Prior to Advance, Andrew was a manager on Condé Nast’s Digital Business Development team. He began his career with Lazard as an investment banking analyst in the firm’s Consumer and Direct Marketing group. Andrew holds a B.A. from Connecticut College and an MBA from the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management.
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About MediaLink, MediaLink: MediaLink is a strategic advisory firm that provides strategic advisory and implementation services to companies at all stages.
Derek Hodovance
Senior Director of Solutions Architecture of Level 3 Communications
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About Level 3 Communications: Level 3 Communications is an international communications company developing IP transit networks in North America and Europe.
Steve Dawson
Director of Software Engineering of Alexa.com
Steve joined Alexa as a Data Mining Engineer in 2005. Prior to assuming his present role, he performed engineering duties for and was the technical lead on a variety of Alexa products. Steve received a B.S. in physics and a B.A. in philosophy from the University of California, Irvine, and his M.A. and Ph.D in astronomy from the University of California, Berkeley. Steve currently resides in Oakland, CA, where he enjoys scuba diving, rock and roll, and the pursuit of various adventures.
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About Alexa.com: Alexa.com, a subsidiary of Amazon, provides brands, marketers, and agencies with a full suite of SEO and competitor analysis tools.
Greg Nist
Director of MarkLogic
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About MarkLogic: MarkLogic Data Hub is a highly differentiated data platform that eliminates friction at every step of the data integration process.
Justin Makeig
Director, Product Management of MarkLogic
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About MarkLogic: MarkLogic Data Hub is a highly differentiated data platform that eliminates friction at every step of the data integration process.
Walter Amaral
Member of the Board of Directors of Limelight Networks
Walter Amaral has served as a director since May 2007 and was appointed Non-Executive Chairman of our Board in February 2013. Amaral served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of SiRF Technology Holdings, Inc., a provider of GPS enabled technology, from August 2000 to March 2006. Prior to that, from August 1997 to August 2000, Amaral served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of S3 Incorporated. From April 1995 to August 1997, Amaral served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of NetManage, Inc., a software company. From May 1992 to May 1995, Amaral served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Maxtor Corporation, a computer storage device company. From May 1977 to May 1992, Amaral worked in several finance and marketing positions, the most recent of which was Corporate Controller, at Intel Corporation. Amaral holds a B.S. in Accounting from California State University, San Jose.
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About : Limelight Networks provides content delivery network services to deliver digital content over the internet.
David Peterschmidt
Member of the Board of Directors of Limelight Networks
David Peterschmidt has served as a director since February 2007. Peterschmidt was the Chief Executive Officer and member of the board of directors of CIBER, Inc., a global information technology consulting services and outsourcing company from July 2010 to June 2014. Prior to joining CIBER, Inc., Peterschmidt served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Openwave Systems, Inc. from November 2004 to March 2007. Prior to that, Peterschmidt served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Securify, Inc., from September 2003 to November 2004 and also as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Inktomi, Inc. from July 1996 to March 2003. Peterschmidt received a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Missouri and an M.A. from Chapman College.
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About : Limelight Networks provides content delivery network services to deliver digital content over the internet.
Charley Thomas
Director of Advanced Solutions of Limelight Networks
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About Limelight Networks: Limelight Networks provides content delivery network services to deliver digital content over the internet.
Brandon Caudill
Senior Director, Business Development of ZergNet
Brandon Caudill is the senior director of business development at [ZergNet](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/zergnet#/entity), a content recommendation company focused on sending incremental traffic and unique visitors to its partners. Previously, he was the director of business development at Social Reactor. Caudill has studied marketing at Ball State University’s College of Business. He resides in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States.
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About ZergNet, ZergNet: Content Recommendation that promotes links to your articles on hundreds of partner sites in a private network.
Siva Muthukumarasamy
Founding Engineer/ Director , Engineering of Peel
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About Peel: Peel is the leading universal home control and video content discovery platform w/ 130M+ users worldwide, generating 140B+ remote commands
Lezlie Rmasey
Director of Client Management of MeetingPlay
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About MeetingPlay: MeetingPlay – The mobile event app to connect your attendees
Gene Cornfield
Managing Director, Digital Tranformation of Accenture Interactive
Gene oversees CashStar’s marketing and the consumer product portfolio. He is passionately committed to helping retailers use digital currency to drive acquisition, lift and loyalty. He works closely with the product team to continually innovate the digital gifting experience, particularly in the mobile and social spheres. Gene is a 20-year technology industry veteran and former Microsoft strategist whose experience bringing groundbreaking products to market spans a variety of B2B and B2C sectors including social media, software, retail, e-commerce, clean tech, and telecom. Most recently he was EVP and Chief Marketing Officer at Cameo Stars, a social/mobile app and marketing company he co-founded in 2009. Gene was also the top marketing executive at several other companies, including EdNets, FreeConferencePro.com, BroadVoice, and the Boston Strategy Group. Gene holds a bachelor’s in English from Syracuse University.
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About Accenture Interactive: Accenture Interactive helps clients create the best customer experiences on the planet, across the entire customer journey.
isaac lazoff
Director of Business Development of Holonis
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About Holonis: Holonis is a social commerce platform that combines website, social, and e-Commerce within a single platform.
Madison Meyer
Director Of Business Development of Holonis
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About Holonis: Holonis is a social commerce platform that combines website, social, and e-Commerce within a single platform.
James Merritt
Director of Entertainment Partnerships of Holonis
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About Holonis: Holonis is a social commerce platform that combines website, social, and e-Commerce within a single platform.
Kai Hasson
Co-Founder and Creative Director of Portal A
Kai Hasson is the Creative Director and Co-Founder of Portal A, an award-winning digital studio that creates Branded and Original entertainment for a new generation. Hasson is responsible for leading Portal A’s creative output and creative team of writers and directors, from concept ideation to direction to post-production. In addition to his role as Creative Director, Hasson often directs Portal A’s biggest and most influential projects, including co-creating White Collar Brawler, which started as a digital series and was later brought to TV with multiple seasons on the Esquire Network, and YouTube Rewind, which has been viewed 100 million times annually for the past 4 years. Before Portal A, Hasson worked for Current TV in San Francisco. Portal A is independent, with a team of 50 based in its San Francisco and Los Angeles offices. Portal A works with top global brands such as Clorox, YouTube, Amazon, Google, and Lenovo and develops breakthrough original programming for partners like YouTube Red, Disney Digital, and Hearst. With over one billion views across its work, Portal A was recently named digital studio of the year by Cynopsis and recognized as an industry leading content studio by Digiday and The Drum. Kai grew up in Berkeley, CA and is an alumnus of Yale University.
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About Portal A: Portal A develop, produce, and distribute video built for conversation
Vianney Brandicourt
Director of Product of Pico
Director of Product @Pico. Most recently the co-founder and CEO of the venture-backed company Joinery, Vianney is a seasoned entrepreneur and product manager with more than a decade of experience working with and leading data-driven teams at companies like Google, Spotify, and Foursquare.
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About Pico: Pico is the business platform for creators.
Eric Abrams
Managing Director, Influencer Marketing & Custom Content Creation of IZEA
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About IZEA: IZEA creates marketplaces that connect brands with influential content creators and publishers at-scale.
Shannon Ong
Executive Director, Client Development of IZEA
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About IZEA, IZEA: IZEA creates marketplaces that connect brands with influential content creators and publishers at-scale.
Alec Emmons
Creative Director of Hone
For at least 15 years, Alec has creatively fused traditional, digital and arcane concepts together. Sometimes, even on purpose. Possessing a lifelong passion of the esoteric and aesthetic, his work has appeared on TV, Film, Billboards, online, in-store displays & packaging, posters, CDs, Vinyl LPs, and virtually anywhere else that could benefit from having a designed element. Previous work: Kleiner Perkins-backed BlueOak Resources, Peter Thiel-backed Modern Meadow; IAC/Electus-backed dumbdumb, Capitol Records, Atlantic Records, Rhino Entertainment, WMG, UMG, Sony Music, Wal*Mart, VIACOM properties, JWT, RocNation, ABC, FOX, Time, Inc. and Conde Nast.
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About Driftr, Hone: Content marketing and native advertising technology company.
Christopher Shon
Sr. Director of Operations of Saucey
As Saucey’s Operations Manager, Chris brings several years of experience in operations, strategy and project management with a strong focus on software and video across web/mobile. While he’s not losing his sight glued to a computer screen, he enjoys the outdoors and a nice glass of whiskey.
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About Saucey: Saucey is an e-Commerce company which handles the fastest, easiest and most reliable on-demand alcohol delivery service.
Gordon Crovitz
Member of the Board of Directors of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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About NewsGuard, Next News Ventures: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is a global learning company specialized in pre-K–12 education content, services, and technology solutions.
Lawrence Fish
Chairman of the Board of Directors of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Lawrence Fish has served as a member of the board of directors since August 2010 and Chairman of the Board since January 2011. Fish served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Citizens Financial Group, Inc. (“Citizens”) from 2005 to 2008 and before as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, from 1992, of Citizens. Fish is a member of the Corporation (Board of Trustees) of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He serves on the boards of Textron Inc., Tiffany & Co., and NBH Holdings Corp. He is also an Honorary Trustee of the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C. Fish’s extensive experience in the areas of finance, marketing, general management and corporate governance enables him to provide the Company with effective leadership on the board of directors.
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About : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is a global learning company specialized in pre-K–12 education content, services, and technology solutions.
Mohib Zubairi
Director, Business Solutions of Model B
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About Model B: Model B delivers results through omnichannel intelligence and award-winning strategy, media buying, creative and web development.
Sterling Montes
Director of Growth of Snapwire
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About Snapwire: Snapwire is a platform where talented creators shoot custom visual content for brands and businesses around the world.
Michael Angstadt
Director of Engineering of WP Engine
Michael Angstadt is a technology entrepreneur specializing in strategic web marketing & business process automation. Founding atomni LLC in late 2008, a data-driven web marketing firm in Philadelphia, PA – then M3thod LLC in early 2009 – Michael has continued to grow atomni into a boutique developer of proprietary code-based solutions for data integration, analysis, and decision support. Responsible for several other technology ventures, Michael focuses on building value-adding business tools and thoughtful strategies that improve the accessibility of information for business stakeholders.
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About E-Line Media, WP Engine: WP Engine is a managed WordPress hosting platform.
Lori Kozlowski
Editorial Director of Shondaland
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About More Light Media, Shondaland, Terra.do: Shondaland is an American television production company.
John Kenny
Director/Investor of Songclip (Audiobyte)
John Kenny is a Director at Songclip
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About AMAROK Security, New Day Capital LLC, Snow Phipps Group, Songclip (Audiobyte): Songclip is the first Social Music API, offering a SaaS technology platform for integrating licensed music on social and digital platforms.
Andrew Thomas
Product Marketing Director of SDL plc
Andrew Thomas is an expert in translation management and structured content. He considers himself a futurist and spends more time than he should thinking about the impending singularity and how he can welcome our new AI overlords. At SDL he has spent more than a decade focused on delivering solutions for global content management and delivery. He knows the only true constant is change and he strives to inspire others to embrace it.
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About SDL plc: They enable global businesses to engage with their customers – in the language, the media and at the moment they choose.
Ross Greenberg
Director of Business Development of Status Labs
I help individuals and companies to develop an online strategy to better increase, promote, or repair their online presence. Contact me for a free consultation and/or if you are interested in becoming an affiliate partner: ross@statuslabs.com
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Laura Jaffee
Director of Business Development of Status Labs
Laura Jaffee is a Business Development Director based in New York City. Prior to Status Labs, she was a top sales performer and manager at SinglePlatform. Originally from Westchester, New York, Laura graduated from Barnard College with a BA in American Studies. Outside of work, Laura can be found exploring the City’s best food and fitness scenes.
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David Hale
Business Development Director of Status Labs
A native Texan and graduate of the University of North Texas, David was commissioned as an officer in the Air Force and stationed in Japan and Texas. He spent his 20’s traveling to the world’s scariest places as a C-130 navigator. David transitioned to the civilian world, first as an account exec for Siemens Industry and is now at home in Austin at Status Labs.
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Spencer Blye
Business Development Director of Status Labs
Spencer is a Business Development Director at Status Labs and heads up the company’s west coast operations from Los Angeles. Prior to joining Status Labs, he was a Digital Strategist at Weber Shandwick in New York where he guided the strategic development and planning of campaigns for brands such as Unilever, Fisher Price, Sonos and Bank of America. Spencer graduated from Vanderbilt University with a BS in Human and Organizational Development, and a Master’s in Organizational Leadership.
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Michael Gullaksen
Senior Vice President, Managing Director of Covario
As Chief Executive Officer of NP Digital Mike leads the agency’s global team of 450 people, overall strategy and vision. Mike is focused on staying true to client and employee satisfaction through the next stage of growth for NP Digital and keeping this at center of the company’s culture. Mike has been a leader, product visionary, and innovator in performance marketing for the last 20 years. Previously Mike was President of iProspect, where he and his team focused on operational excellence across client services, product innovation and technology to support agency growth. Mike joined iProspect through the acquisition of Covario where he held the position of Co-CEO. Under Mike’s watch, Covario was named the Search Agency of the Year by OMMA a record three years in a row (2013-11). It was also ranked by Advertising Age magazine among the ten largest U.S. search agencies (and the fastest growing of the largest ones). In addition, Covario was the only independent firm selected for inclusion in the last two Forrester Research Wave reports of leading search marketing agencies, which were published in 2012 and 2011. Prior to being CEO of Covario Mike was Senior Vice President of Search at iCrossing where he spent 9 years leading the company to Search Agency of the Year by OMMA two times and to Forrester’s top rated Search Agency. Mike has built a reputation for creating award-winning performance marketing teams, and developing proven digital strategies that drive business growth for Global 1000 clients. Mike also served for 8 years on the Board of Directors and as President for SEMPO (Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization) which was acquired by the Digital Analytics Association in 2020. Mike was named by BtoB Magazine in 2013 to its selective group of “Who’s Who in Search and Digital Marketing.” He was also selected by the editors of Direct Marketing News as one of the recipients of its first annual 2012 “40 under 40” awards.
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About Covario, Neil Patel Digital, NP Digital: Covario is a search marketing agency and tech firm providing search and content marketing services to enterprise brands and retailers.
Donovan Neale-May
Founder & Executive Director of CMO Council
Neale-May, 61, is the founder and executive director of the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council (www.cmocouncil.org), a global affinity network of more than 9,000+ senior marketing and branding executives, who collectively control more than $450 billion in annual marketing spend. Neale-May is also the founder and executive director of the Business Performance Innovation (BPI) Network (www.bpinetwork.org), a global management community dedicated to identifying, exploring and sharing emerging trends and transformational ideas and practices that are reshaping world markets and competitive landscapes. Neale-May serves as president and managing partner of GlobalFluency, Inc., the leader in Intelligent Market Engagement™, with 70 offices in over 40 countries. Collectively, GlobalFluency (www.globalfluency.com) member firms have annual billings of $50 million and employ 450 professionals servicing scores of clients across the Americas, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Africa and the Middle East. He has been managing and running his respected multi-channel marketing and perception management business since 1987, operating from Silicon Valley and New York offices. Previously, Neale-May held senior positions with marketing, promotions and PR agencies, including Ogilvy & Mather, in Silicon Valley, New York, London and Los Angeles. During his 35 years as an international marketing and brand strategist, Neale-May has consulted with over 300 leading multi-nationals, new venture starts and emerging growth companies. Neale-May is listed as one of the Top 100 Most Influential BtoB Marketers in North America by BtoB Magazine. He serves on the board of directors for Travelzoo (NASDAQ: TZOO) and is a member of the Rhodes University Board of Governors in South Africa. He is also an adjunct professor at Seoul National University in South Korea.
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About BPI Network, CMO Council, GlobalFluency Inc., The SABLE Accelerator: The CMO Council is a peer-powered network of marketing executives decision-makers from a wide range of global industries.
Griffin Siegel
Director of finance, strategy, and operations of Cycle Media
Griffin Siegel has been serving as director of finance, strategy and operations at Cycle Media since January 2018.
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About Cycle Media: Cycle Media operates as a media holding company that provides digital marketing services.
Michael Kurt
Director of finance and strategy of Cycle Media
Michael Kurt has been serving as director of finance and strategy at Cycle Media since January 2018.
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About Cycle Media: Cycle Media operates as a media holding company that provides digital marketing services.
Samuel Woodcock
Director of accounting of Cycle Media
Director of Accounting currently working in New York City
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About Cycle Media: Cycle Media operates as a media holding company that provides digital marketing services.
Samuel Woodcock
Director of accounting of Cycle Media
Director of Accounting currently working in New York City
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About Cycle Media: Cycle Media operates as a media holding company that provides digital marketing services.
