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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 Digital Media 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.
Henry Pickavet
Editorial Director of TechCrunch
Henry Pickavet is the Editorial Director at TechCrunch. Prior to joining TechCrunch, Henry had a hand in a number of online and print publications, including InternetNews.com as chief copy editor and Government Technology Magazine as managing editor. He also did a stint in Sydney as group editor of RBI Australia’s manufacturing group, which is when he also developed an affinity (a love, really) for cricket. He has a bachelor’s in English from California State University, Chico, and a master’s in Liberal Studies from the New School for Social Research in New York.
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About TechCrunch, TechCrunch: TechCrunch is an online magazine reporting on technology opinions, news, and analysis.
Jessica Brunner
Director of Brand Marketing of TechCrunch
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About TechCrunch: TechCrunch is an online magazine reporting on technology opinions, news, and analysis.
Emma Comeau
U.S. Director of Events of TechCrunch
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About TechCrunch: TechCrunch is an online magazine reporting on technology opinions, news, and analysis.
Travis Bernard
Senior Director, Subscriptions and Audience Insights of TechCrunch
Travis Bernard is a Senior Director at TechCrunch, focusing on subscriptions, audience insights, and audience development. Travis has been with AOL and TechCrunch since 2013. Prior to joining AOL and TechCrunch, Travis worked on the agency side of marketing and advertising with LM&O and New Media Strategies (now Meredith Xcelerated Marketing) in Arlington, VA. Travis is originally from Maryland, and he graduated from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN.
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About TechCrunch: TechCrunch is an online magazine reporting on technology opinions, news, and analysis.
Floris Bauer
Member of the Board of Directors of Cut.com, Inc.
Floris Bauer is a Member of the Board of Directors at CUT.COM.
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About : Cut makes little stories of some interest.
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.
Francesca ReDavid
Global Marketing Director of IAC
Francesca ReDavid is the Director of Product & Growth at Care.com.
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About Care.com, IAC: IAC is a media and Internet company with more than 150 brands and products serving consumer audiences.
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.
Anna Lee
Senior Director of Marketing of PureWow
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About PureWow: PureWow is a digital media company that specializes in women’s lifestyle content, covering fashion, beauty, tech, recipes, health & more.
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.
Scott Dworkin
Executive Director of Democratic Coalition Against Trump
Scott Dworkin is the Founder and President of Bulldog Finance Group and was a Senior Advisor on both the Draft Biden and Run Warren Run campaigns. He is also a veteran of both the 2008 and 2012 Obama campaigns. To date, Scott has worked in all 50 states.. Scott also serves on the Advisory Boards for the New Leaders Council and Democratic GAIN. He was named to the Campaigns & Elections Magazine’s 2011 class of Rising Stars. He received a BA in Political Science and a BA in Sociology at North Carolina State University.
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About Democratic Coalition Against Trump: Democratic Coalition Against Trump is the home of the anti-Trump movement.
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.
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
Kathleen Osgood
Director of Market Development of Jump Capital
Kathleen Osgood currently works as the Director of Market Development for Jump Capital. She previously worked at Omnium Blockchain as the Founder and Executive Director.
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About Jump Capital: Jump Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in Series A and B expansion stage investments in technology and software.
Jill Scarbrough
Director, USCA Customer Success of Tableau
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About Tableau, Tableau, Tableau: Tableau helps global organizations unleash the power of their most valuable assets: their data and their people.
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
Kim Gardner
Director of Engineering, Coral of Vox Media
Building usable, valuable products since 2005. She is passionate about methodologies and tools that create respectful, productive, and fun environments for software development teams.
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About Vox Media: Vox Media is an operator of an online media publishing agency created to influence editorial properties and premium advertising.
Doug Mitchell
Founder/Project Director “Next Generation Radio” of NPR
Doug is the founder and project leader of NPR’s “Next Generation Radio.” It’s a digital media professional development camp for college students and early career professionals. Also, Doug is on the board of the Latino Public Radio Consortium, a peer reviewer for the Fulbright Association.and consults with the International Women’s Media Foundation.
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About NPR: NPR is a multimedia news organization and radio program producer that delivers national and international news broadcasts.
Steve Mulder
Senior Director of Audience Insights of NPR
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About NPR: NPR is a multimedia news organization and radio program producer that delivers national and international news broadcasts.
David Arnold
Product Strategy Director, Data & Integration Services of Dow Jones
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About Dow Jones: Dow Jones is a news and business information provider that delivers content to consumers and organizations via newspapers and more.
Rob Sloan
Research Director, WSJ Pro of Dow Jones
Research Director, WSJ Pro at Dow Jones.
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About Dow Jones: Dow Jones is a news and business information provider that delivers content to consumers and organizations via newspapers and more.
Rob Sloan
Research Director, WSJ Pro of Dow Jones
Research Director, WSJ Pro at Dow Jones.
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About Dow Jones: Dow Jones is a news and business information provider that delivers content to consumers and organizations via newspapers and more.
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.
John Roberts
Co-Founder, Director of Comixology
John D. Roberts is the co-founder of comiXology and a pioneer in digital comics. Prior to launching comiXology, John led Marvel’s first digital comics initiative, “dotComics,” in the early 2000s where he also created the precursors to today’s motion comics. John has over 20 years of experience in the tech field, working with such diverse group of companies as Pepsi, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Sunoco, DC Comics, Disney, Pokemon, National Geographic, Touchstone, Nickelodeon and Lionsgate. Currently John works closely with leading and emerging comics creators in unique and innovative ways to continue innovating the digital comic experience. John also spearheads comiXology Submit, a self-publishing portal that enables independent creators to reach comiXology’s global audience of comic book fans. John holds a BFA in drawing from Kutztown University. John’s currently reading Aquaman from DC Entertainment.
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About Comixology: Comixology delivers a cloud-based digital comics platform that enables users to discover, buy, and read comics.
Anthony Larkin
Director, Product Marketing of Akamai Technologies
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About Akamai Technologies: Akamai is a provider of cloud services that help enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device.
Scott Forrey
Senior Director, Sales & Marketing Data Science of Akamai Technologies
Scott Forrey is the Senior Director, Sales & Marketing Data Science at Akamai Technologies.
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About Akamai Technologies: Akamai is a provider of cloud services that help enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device.
Howard Yeh
Co-Founder, CEO & Board Director of HealthCare.com
Howard Yeh Online marketing entrepreneur and investor. President and Founder of HealthCare.com (Healthcare, Inc.). Founder of ContactUs.com, Inc. (2012), former co-founder of BrokersWeb (a 2x Inc 500 performance marketing company). Former venture capitalist at VantagePoint Capital Partners. Former investment banker at Merrill Lynch. Howard blogs at www.howardyeh.com.
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About HealthCare.com: HealthCare.com is an insurtech platform that allows users to analyze health insurance options that are available in their area.
Greg Agvent
Sr. Director of News Operations of CNN
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About CNN, CNN, CNN: CNN is an online broadcasting platform that offers the latest business, financial, and personal finance news.
Mike Toppo
Vice President/Senior Editorial Director of CNN
Michael Toppo is the vice president and senior editorial director for CNN Digital, managing the video programming strategy for all of CNN’s digital platforms. Toppo has been directly involved in audience growth strategies and the integration of analytics into the daily programming process. From 2011-2013, video starts grew 40% and CNN continues to be an industry leader for video traffic. Toppo launched CNN’s first video team focused on digital-native content for enterprise storytelling and sponsorship integration. Under his leadership, the team has created franchises for multiple verticals including music, comedy, politics, innovation, health and culture. He was also instrumental in creating the network’s first digital war room which brings together teams from edit, research, business intelligence and social to use real time data to optimize site performance and leverage trending content. In 2012, his enterprise video team won multiple honors including the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award for “Slavery’s Last Stronghold”an investigation that exposed the issues of slavery in Mauritania, the last country in the world to outlaw the practice. He has also led CNN’s cross-platform TV Integration group focused on digital strategies for CNN’s premier programs including The Lead with Jake Tapper, Erin Burnett OutFront, New Day, Morgan Spurlock/Inside Man and Anthony Bourdain/Parts Unknown. Prior to managing video strategy, Toppo led CNN Digital’s home page, feature sections, news production, photos and interactive teams. In 2011, his teams launched the CNN Photos blog dedicated to telling powerful and inspiring stories through photography. To date, CNN Photos has generated over 800 million page views. Prior to joining CNN Digital in 2006, Toppo was the Senior Executive Producer for CNN’s domestic television network and managed all of its weekday programs. He also developed the format for its flagship dayside program, Newsroom. Toppo came to CNN in 1996 to produce its daily news program, TalkBack Live. The program was the first of its kind on a national level to use interactive technologies including chat rooms, instant messaging and video conferencing. As the Executive Producer, he was responsible for guiding the overall direction and development of the program. He is also a member of CNN’s Diversity Council focusing on the network’s business strategy. Toppo earned a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism from Buffalo State College.
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About CNN: CNN is an online broadcasting platform that offers the latest business, financial, and personal finance news.
Dave Abbott
Managing Director, Sports Media of Sportradar
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About Sportradar: Sportradar is a supplier of sports and betting-related live data, odds solutions and fraud detection services.
Alec Barclay
Director – US Digital Development of Financial Times
Alec Barclay is the Director of US Digital Development at Financial Times in New York.
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About Financial Times: Financial Times is a business news organization providing essential news, comments, data, and analysis for the global business community.
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.
Matt Doheny
Member of the Board of Directors of Kodak
Matt Doheny, 44, currently serves as President of North Country Capital LLC, an advisory and investment firm focusing on board advisory assignments and investing in alternative investments, where he has served since 2011. Previously, Doheny served as Portfolio Manager of Fintech Advisory Inc., a fund focusing on operational turnarounds and undervalued securities, from June 2008 to October 2010. He previously served as Managing Director of the Distressed Assets Group of Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. from January 2000 to March 2008. Prior to his career with financial institutions, Doheny was an attorney in the Corporate Restructuring Departments of Orrick LLP and Kelley Drye & Warren and in the Business and Corporate Department of Hancock & Estabrook. Doheny currently serves on the board of YRC Worldwide, Inc. (since July 2011) and Affinity Gaming (since May 2013) and has served on the boards of several private companies in the financial services and venture capital industries.
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About North Country Capital, LLC: Kodak is a technology company that provides imaging solutions and services for enterprises and consumers.
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.
Jane Chung
Co-Founder & Creative Director of Klooff
Jane is the Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer at Klooff. She leads Klooff’s vision and strategy by creating experiences through intuitive design, curating, and storytelling. She oversees Klooff’s brand and product development. She has a black lab named Cooper who will sit for Korean corn puffs. Sometimes she wonders if it came down to it, Cooper will pick the corn puffs over her. Jane is a design director that focuses on approaching work through a strategic, data-driven, and emotional lens. She specializes in creating narratives around brands across all channels, forms, and experiences. Jane received her BFA in graphic design at RISD and has 9+ years of experience concepting and designing for the world’s largest brands including Coke, Nike, Skechers, Leo Burnett, Epson, Sony, Quicken, Interscope Records, LG, L’oreal, and Hershey’s. Jane currently resides in New York where she dabbles between art, advertising, and film.
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About Klooff: Klooff is bringing Happiness Through Pets.
Bill Miksich
Director of Demand Generation of Customer.io
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About Customer.io: Customer.io enables users to send newsletters to selected segments of customers using their website data.
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.
Alexis Caldwell
Senior Director and Global Network Development of LTK
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About LTK: LTK is a global creator commerce platform that empowers thousands of digital lifestyle influencers to achieve economic success.
Josh Mandel
Managing Director of ADHD at All Def Digital of All Def Digital
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About All Def Digital: ALL DEF DIGITAL is a premium, multi-platform digital media company and entertainment hub
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.
Thomas L. Vincent
Senior Director, Head of Data Science of Getty Images
Thomas L. Vincent is the Head of Data Science at Getty Images.
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About Getty Images: Getty Images is a creator and distributor of award-winning still imagery, video, music, and multimedia products.
Claudia Grimaldi Marks
Senior Art Director of Getty Images
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About Getty Images: Getty Images is a creator and distributor of award-winning still imagery, video, music, and multimedia products.
Tristen Norman
Director, Creative Insights of Getty Images
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About Getty Images: Getty Images is a creator and distributor of award-winning still imagery, video, music, and multimedia products.
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.
Tony Chang
Director of Project Management of EIGHT25MEDIA
Tony Chang is the director of project management at EIGHT25MEDIA.
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About EIGHT25MEDIA: EIGHT25MEDIA is a full-service digital agency that offers strategic consulting, web design, and mobile app development.
Tony Chang
Director of Project Management of EIGHT25MEDIA
Tony Chang is the director of project management at EIGHT25MEDIA.
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About EIGHT25MEDIA: EIGHT25MEDIA is a full-service digital agency that offers strategic consulting, web design, and mobile app development.
Rishi Rasane
Director & Producer of ADVIDS
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About ADVIDS: ADVIDS is an online platform and concierge service to produce web videos.
James Bao
Partner & Product Director of Pixel Digital Agency
James is a partner at Pixel, a digital agency that helps global brands (Heineken, Nerf, Pepsi) create digital experiences that resonate with Millennial consumers. Pixel features a collective of startup founders, engineers, and designers with deep experience in working with many of the world’s leading companies, including Hotmail, Google, Microsoft, Rotten Tomatoes, Yahoo, and the US State Department. James is also the founder of OneConnect, a Ford Foundation-funded startup that partnered with the US State Department to increase diaspora giving. James currently serves on the board of the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM), the largest organization dedicated to the advancement of Asian Americans in media.
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About Pixel, Pixel Digital Agency: Pixel helps global brands create digital experiences that resonate with Millennial consumers.
Paul Zovighian
Senior Director & Exchange Optimization of Index Exchange
As the Senior Director of Exchange Optimization at Index Exchange, Paul Zovighian and his team are hyper-focused on studying the billions of auctions hosted on the exchange each day, searching for opportunities and inefficiencies. Paul joined Index six years ago in Toronto as one of its first analyst hires, later moving to New York in support of the company’s global expansion. During his tenure, he’s played a leading role in building a client-facing analytics team, focused on developing and utilizing data-driven tactics to optimize client revenue and market performance. While the analyst team started with just two employees in Toronto, the team today has a global presence in New York, San Francisco, London, Dusseldorf, and Sydney. Paul studied Economics with an emphasis in Econometrics at Queen’s University, and brings a diverse perspective to Index after having lived in six different countries.
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About Index Exchange: Index Exchange is an exchange technology, enabling digital publishers and suppliers to sell ad impressions programmatically and in realtime.
Sunil Soman
Sr. Director, Measurement Innovation of Turner Broadcasting
Sunil Soman serves as senior director of measurement innovation at Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.
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About Turner Broadcasting: Turner is a media company that creates and programs branded news, entertainment, sports, animation and young adult multi-platform content.
Vikram Marathe
Director of Turner Broadcasting
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About AT&T, Turner Broadcasting: Turner is a media company that creates and programs branded news, entertainment, sports, animation and young adult multi-platform content.
Brian Turner
Program/Content Director of Gimme Radio
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About Gimme Radio: Gimme Radio is a digital music platform designed for passionate music fans.
Brian Turner
Program/Content Director of Gimme Radio
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About Gimme Radio: Gimme Radio is a digital music platform designed for passionate music fans.
Laura Correnti
EVP, Managing Director, Media of Giant Spoon
Laura is an innovative marketer with 10+ year track record of disrupting media models and creating best-in-class brand partnerships. Laura is a digital expert with a knack for culture-driven storytelling, multi-sensory experiences, creative negotiating and deriving new ways to find value. Her experience ranges from corporate to challenger brands across tech, industrial, ecomm/retail, financial, spirits, fashion/beauty and pharma industries. Ask Laura about co-publishing content, what marketing looks like when the interface goes away and new models for measuring media. Laura is also co-host of the ADLANDIA podcast. She is a graduate of American University (BA, CLEG) and University of Texas at Austin (MA, Advertising). Laua is tha author of “Brand Extensions in Sport: Red Bull Gets the Ball Rolling,” a published report focused on Red Bull pioneering brand sponsorship / ownership in US sports market. Honors & Awards: AWNY GenNext Award Recipient (2016), Cannes Lion Winner (Grand Prix, NYTVR & Gold, GE Podcast Theater: The Message), AdWeek Media Plan of the Year (2015, 2016), Clio Awards (Gold 2015, Bronze 2016), Webby’s Best Use of Content, MediaPost Creative Media Award and #1 Podcast on iTunes.
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About Giant Spoon: Giant Spoon is a marketing strategy and innovation agency that provides short- and long-term marketing and business planning.
Philip Saunders
CEO and Member of the Board of Directors of Saba Software
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About Saba Software: We want to help transform your talent management processes to help you drive better business results and gain competitive advantage.
Ashley Whitehurst
Managing Director of LAUNCH
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About LAUNCH: We Back Builders Founded by @Jason
Jason Demant
Managing Director of LAUNCH
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About LAUNCH, Unanchor: We Back Builders Founded by @Jason
Jane Quinn
Editorial Director of The Daily Voice
Jane Bryant Quinn serves as a Director of Bloomberg L.P. Quinn has been a Director of GSE Systems Inc. since October 28th 2015. Quinn had been an Independent Director of GSE Systems Inc. since May 29, 2008 until October 28th 2015. Quinn is a Pioneer in financial journalism, is a Contributing Editor and Columnist for Newsweek, a columnist syndicated nationally by the Washington Post and a contributing columnist to Good Housekeeping magazine. She wrote the best-seller, Making the Most of Your Money and has held a number of top editorial positions throughout her career including national business correspondent at CBS-TV News for most of the 1980’s. She served on the Boards of the Harvard School of Public Health, the Jerome Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, and her alma mater, Middlebury College. She has many awards to her credit, including the coveted Emmy Award, for outstanding coverage of news on television and the Gerald Loeb award for distinguished lifetime achievement in business and financial journalism. Quinn has been named by the World Almanac as one of the 25 most influential women in the United States.
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About AARP, The Daily Voice: The Daily Voice is a local news organization.
Pascal Levensohn
Senior Managing Director of Dolby Family Ventures
Pascal is the founder and Managing Partner of Levensohn Venture Partners (LVP) and the CEO of Generation Strategic Advisors LLC (GSA); he has held both positions since 1996. Pascal joined Dolby Family Ventures, L.P. as a Managing Director in 2014 after advising the Dolby family on its direct technology investment portfolio since 2012. Pascal has transitioned his new technology venture capital investing activities to the Dolby family organization. Pascal was elected to the board of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) from April 2007-April 2011, during which he chaired the NVCA’s education committee for three years; he is a faculty member of the Kauffman Fellows Program Center for Venture Education (2006-present) where he teaches best practices for VC-backed company board members. Pascal has served as board chairman, audit committee chairman, compensation committee chairman, and board secretary for venture-backed companies since 1996 and as a public company director since 1993. In addition to serving as chairman on the ShotSpotter board, he is a co-founder and director of LittleCast, Inc. and currently on the boards of Akros Silicon, Tandent Vision Science, and Highview Healthcare. Pascal holds an AB in Government, cum laude, from Harvard University. He is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a former co-chairman of the Socrates Society Forum of the Aspen Institute (2007-2009), and a former Chairman of the San Francisco Jewish Community Federation’s Business Leadership Council (2007-2008).
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About Akros Silicon, Dolby Family Ventures, Generation Strategic Advisors, Levensohn Venture Partners: Dolby Family Ventures is an early stage venture firm focused on building great technology companies.
Andrew Krowne
Managing Director of Dolby Family Ventures
Andrew is a Managing Director at Dolby Family Ventures. He previously worked at various Investment Banks in New York such as RBS, Barclays Capital, and Merrill Lynch in the Technology, Telecom and Media sector focusing on capital markets, before attending business school to receive an MBA. He began his career in the Valuation Advisory Practice of Ernst & Young, and has been with two hedge funds focused on illiquid/esoteric credit securities and activist equity investing. While at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, Andrew was the recipient of the inaugural Investment Management Fellowship and the CFA Merit Award and served as a Consortium Fellow. He received second place in the 2013 Institutional Investor Student Analyst Competition for his stock portfolio in the Technology, Telecom & Media space. Andrew earned a BS degree from the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce in 2006, where he had a double-concentration in Finance and Accounting.
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About Dolby Family Ventures: Dolby Family Ventures is an early stage venture firm focused on building great technology companies.
Joseph Ranzenbach
Director of Product of Integral Ad Science
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About Integral Ad Science: IAS is a global technology and data company that empowers the advertising industry to effectively influence consumers everywhere.
Jeffrey Kiske
Director of Engineering, Machine Learning of Ripcord
Jeff Kiske is the Director of Engineering and Machine Learning at Ripcord. Before that, he was the CEO and a co-founder of Engine ML. His expertise is in deep learning, with a focus on autonomous driving. Prior to starting Engine ML, Jeff was a machine learning engineer at Uber ATG and Otto, and a co-founder at drive.ai. Jeff holds an MS in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Stanford and a BSE in Computer Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.
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About Ripcord: Ripcord is a robotics company that combines hardware and software robotics via an integrated SaaS offering.
Gar Richlin
Member of the Board of Directors of Videology
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About PrescribeWellness: Videology is an online video advertising platform, enables advertisers, agencies and publishers to connect brands with targeted audiences.
David Tucker
Co-Founder, Chairman, Director of Product Development & Co-CEO of Doculife
David Tucker, previously built a highly successful security software company called XtreamLok. XtreamLok was in operation for over five years. Staff numbers rose to 45 during that period before Symantec bought XtreamLok in 2005. Before XtreamLok, David created a company called imovie (at that time, Australia’s largest and most popular movie-based web site) which was sold to Village Roadshow in 2000.
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About Doculife: Doculife is evolving the way important life documents are transferred between parties, providing peace of mind for its users
Derek Harrar
Member of the Board of Directors of Brightcove
Derek Harrar is a Member of the Board of Directors at YuMe since October 2015 and Brightcove since January 2014. Derek previously served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Video and Entertainment Services at Comcast Corporation. In this position, Derek was responsible for all aspects of Comcast’s $19 billion flagship video business, including basic and digital cable, HD and DVR services, as well as management of Video On Demand for Comcast’s 24 million video customers. Previously, Derek served as Vice President of Video Product Management for Comcast. Before that, Derek was the Lead Product Manager for Comcast’s portfolio of set-top boxes as Vice President of Subscriber Equipment. Derek joined Comcast in 2004 as Vice President of Business Development. Since leaving Comcast, Derek advises private equity firms and their portfolio companies on technology, media and telecom investing and operating strategies. Prior to Comcast, Derek served as Co-Founder of Silicon Valley startup MegaSense and served as its Vice President of Business Development. Derek’s career began with eight years as an Investment Banker, primarily with Morgan Stanley in Silicon Valley and New York. Derek advised clients such as HP, KKR, @Home, Grupo Televisa, LSI Logic and VeriSign on 45 announced transactions aggregating over $60 billion. Derek holds a B.S. with Special Attainments in Commerce from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, VA. Derek resides in Philadelphia with his wife and four daughters.
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About : Brightcove is video that means business, helping customers experience the incredible potential of video.
Gary Haroian
Member of the Board of Directors of Brightcove
Gary Haroian is a software industry veteran with more than 30 years of experience leading software and services companies. Gary’s executive experience includes serving as Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer, and Chief Executive Officer at Bowstreet, a provider of software application tools; Senior Vice President of Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer of Concord Communications, a network management software company; and Chief Financial Officer, President, Chief Operating Officer, and Chief Executive Officer at Stratus Computer, a provider of continuous availability software and service. Earlier in his career Gary was a CPA at Arthur Andersen. Gary serves on the Audit and Compensation Committees of EnerNOC’s Board of Directors. In addition to his position on EnerNOC’s Board of Directors, Gary currently serves as a director of Aspen Technology and Brightcove, and has previously served as a director of A123 Systems, Network Engines, Unica Corporation, Phase Forward, Authorize.Net Holdings, and Embarcadero Technologies. Gary holds a BS in Economics and Accounting from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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About : Brightcove is video that means business, helping customers experience the incredible potential of video.
Marc Kempter
EVP Director of Account Service of Mullen Advertising
From running his own company to running the largest retail account in the world, the common thread in Marc’s career has been his belief in the power of great ideas to transform brands. Marc comes to MullenLowe U.S. from The Martin Agency where, in addition to running Walmart, he developed new agency-client organizational models and revamped their new business efforts. Previously, he founded and ran “Core,” a collective of marketers and creatives that was then named one of the top 10 creative agencies by Graphis magazine. He has worked on a broad spectrum of brands including Walmart, Mentos, Penske, Play It Again Sports, Motorola and BFGoodrich. Since joining MullenLowe U.S., he has become integral to the agency’s operational innovation, talent deployment, growth and creative excellence.
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About Mullen Advertising: Mullen is an American advertising and marketing communications agency based in Boston, Massachusetts.
Lisa Setten
SVP, Executive Director Of Integrated Production of Mullen Advertising
Lisa oversees integration over four of our U.S. production offices, all while expanding our full-service in-house production company, Yeti. It would be safe to say Lisa likes to stay rather busy. Lisa comes to us from JWT New York, where she guided a team of 100+ content creators on clients like Puma, Rolex and Macy’s. Throughout her career, Lisa has produced award-winning work for clients, garnering multiple Cannes Lions, One Show Pencils and AICP Advertising Excellence/Campaign awards, among others. Lisa’s passion is bringing ideas to life, but the “productions” she’s most proud of are her two lovely daughters.
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About Mullen Advertising: Mullen is an American advertising and marketing communications agency based in Boston, Massachusetts.
Tim Vaccarino
Executive Creative Director of Mullen Advertising
Tim is the consummate art director and he’s been able to hone his craft on forward-thinking brands like Volkswagen, HUMMER, Cadillac, TIAA CREF, U.S. Cellular, Google, JetBlue, Zappos, NOOK by Barnes and Noble, Acura and many more. A tinkerer at heart, Tim loves to make beautiful things with an array of talented people. He sees that as the great privilege of this job and the results have shown themselves in every international award, including AICP where his work is on permanent display at the Museum of Modern Art. Vac (as he likes to be called) lives in Plymouth, MA with his wife and three children. Here, he prefers to keep it real and never speak of himself in the third person.
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About Mullen Advertising: Mullen is an American advertising and marketing communications agency based in Boston, Massachusetts.
Dave Weist
Executive Creative Director of Mullen Advertising
Over the years Dave has been able to apply his writing talents to purpose-driven brands like Volkswagen, HUMMER, Cadillac, TIAA CREF, RED, JetBlue, Zappos, NOOK by Barnes and Noble, U.S. Cellular, Google and many more. He’s proud of the fact that he gets results (having worked on the most successful Cadillac campaign in history) and he doesn’t mind winning awards, either, with every international award to his credit, including the Cannes Grand Prix. Dave believes in the team concept and loves to work across channels but he doesn’t believe in funny little quips at the end of bios. Whoops, looks like we broke his rule there.
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About Mullen Advertising: Mullen is an American advertising and marketing communications agency based in Boston, Massachusetts.
Jeffery Smith
Director, Production Operations of Basis Technologies
Jeff Smith has been working in the technology field for almost 15 years. He has a love for open source software and workflow management. Jeff’s first exposure to configuration management was via homegrown bash scripts, but when he met Puppet, it was love at first sight. Jeff currently serves as the manager for the site reliability engineering group at GrubHub.
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About Basis Technologies: Basis Technologies, formerly ‘Centro,’ provides cloud-based workflow automation and business intelligence software for marketing.
Jacob E Safra
Board of Director of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jacob E. Safra has served as Chairman of Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. since 1996. He is the sole stockholder and a Director of Encyclopædia Britannica Holding S.A., of which Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary. For most of the past two decades, Safra has been primarily involved in private investment management. Before that, he had a long career in banking and finance.
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About : A pioneer in digital learning, Britannica serves the needs of students, lifelong learners, and professionals.
Corvas Brinkerhoff
SVP of Experience Design, Executive Creative Director of Meow Wolf
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About Meow Wolf: Meow Wolf creates entertainment that delights audiences through location-based and digital media experiences.
James Edward Johnson
Director – Finance Transformation of Nielsen
James Edward Johnson is the Director – Finance Transformation at Nielsen.
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About Nielsen: Nielsen provides a comprehensive understanding of what consumers watch and buy.
James Edward Johnson
Director – Finance Transformation of Nielsen
James Edward Johnson is the Director – Finance Transformation at Nielsen.
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About Nielsen: Nielsen provides a comprehensive understanding of what consumers watch and buy.
Tatiana Birgisson
Director, Marketing Growth of Ampush
Tatiana Birgisson is the Director of Marketing at Ampush
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About Ampush: Ampush fuels growth for some of the world’s most disruptive companies.
Sam Jackson
Director of Product Management, Fraud Detection & Prevention of Neustar
Sam Jackson is the director of product management for fraud detection and prevention at Neustar.
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About Neustar: Neustar is a tech company that offers a range of cloud-based services for marketing and IT professionals.
Sam Jackson
Director of Product Management, Fraud Detection & Prevention of Neustar
Sam Jackson is the director of product management for fraud detection and prevention at Neustar.
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About Neustar: Neustar is a tech company that offers a range of cloud-based services for marketing and IT professionals.
Frank Chaparro
Director of News of The Block
Frank Chaparro leads editorial efforts for The Block, the go-to source of trustworthy information and news on cryptocurrency, blockchain, and decentralized technologies, as its senior correspondent. Chaparro started his career at Business Insider, where he specialized in the intersection of digital assets and Wall Street, market structure, and financial technology. He has received numerous accolades for his work and maintained the position as one of the most well-read fintech reporter through his time there, breaking stories on firms such as Fidelity, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and Nasdaq. Soon after joining Business Insider out of Fordham University, Chaparro was interviewing top finance and tech executives, including billionaire Mark Cuban, “Flash Boys” star Brad Katsuyama, Cboe Global Markets CEO Ed Tilly, and New York Stock Exchange President Tom Farley. In 2018, he become a sought after reporter in the crypto world, interviewing luminaries such as Tyler Winklevoss, the cofounder of Gemini, Jeremy Allaire, the CEO of Circle, and Fundstrat head Tom Lee. He joined The Block to dive deeper into his specialty and is responsible for investigating the most powerful figures and firms in the cryptocurrency market and unearthing market moving news.
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About The Block: The Block is the first and final word in digital assets.
Clint Walden
Executive Creative Director of Mindgruve
Clint is Cofounder and Executive Creative Director of Mindgruve where he leads the creative vision for the agency’s brand and plays a strategic role in defining how clients can best position their brand and customer experience for success. Over the past decade, he has led creative projects for some of the top consumer and B2B brands in America such as Procter & Gamble, Live Nation, Oracle and Qualcomm. Prior to Mindgruve, Clint spent more than a decade as founder of a leading design and brand consultancy shop. He also serves on several boards in the consumer, technology and B2B space. Clint is considered one of the top creative executives in the industry, with numerous industry awards spanning two decades of work.
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About Mindgruve: A Modern Marketing Agency. Ideas connecting brands to people.
Michael Garten
Managing Director of Mindgruve
Michael is the Managing Director of Mindgruve Los Angeles and San Francisco. He is the lead for the agency’s client engagements as well as the Managing Director of Mindgruve’s client services capability on the west coast. Prior to Mindgruve, Michael was Director, Special Events at the NBA where he oversaw all global brand events namely the NBA All-Star Weekend and McDonald’s All American Championship games. Most recently he spent 10 years as Executive Director at the PGA Tour managing the west coast World Golf Championships. With over 20 years of marketing experience across advertising, media, marketing, and technology, Mike has successfully led teams where he drove strategy and value proposition development for several global brands. Specialties: Business Modeling Digital Marketing Event Management Event Marketing Ecommerce Social Media Marketing Mix Strategy Search Engine Optimization Sponsorships Sports Marketing Website Strategy, Design & Development
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About Mindgruve: A Modern Marketing Agency. Ideas connecting brands to people.
LaVoy Robison
Board Of Director of Discovery
LaVoy Robison has been on the board of The Anschutz Foundation, a private foundation, since January 1998 and was their Executive Director from 1998 to November 2010. From 1960 until his retirement in 1996, LaVoy was employed by Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. (later known as KPMG), where he was elected a Partner in 1970, specializing in cable television, entertainment, oil and gas, manufacturing and SEC matters. LaVoy is a Member of the Board of Directors at Discovery Communications, Chairman of the Audit Committee and a Member of the Nominating Committee. LaVoy served as a Member of the Board of Directors at Discovery Holding Company prior to Discovery Communications becoming a public company. LaVoy serves on the boards of Liberty Interactive Media and The Anschutz Foundation. LaVoy was a Member of the Board of Directors at old Liberty from June 2003 to May 2006. LaVoy is a past Chairman of the Professional Ethics Board of the Colorado Society of CPAs and a past Member of the Executive Committee of the National Advisory Council of the Marriott School of Management of Brigham Young University. LaVoy holds a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Brigham Young University.
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About : Discovery is a multinational mass media factual television company covering science, history, geography, survival, and more.
Robert Beck
Member of the Board of Directors of Discovery
Robert Beck has been an independent Financial Consultant since 2001. Previously, Robert was a Managing Director of U.S. Core Investments at Putnam Companies from 1990 to 2001, a Managing Partner at Marble Arch Partners from 1985 to 1990 and a Partner at State Street Research Management Company from 1974 to 1985. Robert is a Member of the Board of Directors at Discovery Communications, Charles Bridge Publishing. Previously, Robert was a Chairman of the Board of Directors and President at United Artists Communications and American Mobile Systems. Robert is also a Member of the Advisory Board of Youth Services Provider Network and the Board of Overseers for Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital. Robert holds an Undergraduate degree in Public and International Affairs from Princeton University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
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About : Discovery is a multinational mass media factual television company covering science, history, geography, survival, and more.
Hall Davidson
Director, Discovery Educator Network of Discovery
Hall Davidson has become a master and advocate for technology integration in education. He has worked with ministries, school districts, and industries across the world. Davidson was an integral force in creating and providing Internet-based video-on-demand for classrooms. He has become a leading guru of virtual environments, learning with mobile devices, social media, and digital textbooks. He has seen thousands of student projects through guidance of the nation’s oldest student media festival. He is currently the Discovery Education Global Learning Initiative Senior Director. He serves on the board of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE).
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About Discovery, Discovery Education: Discovery is a multinational mass media factual television company covering science, history, geography, survival, and more.
Decker Anstrom
Member of the Board of Directors of Discovery
Decker Anstrom serves as a Member of the Board of Directors at IEL, Discovery Communications and several nonprofit environmental groups: Island Press, Climate Central, Planet Forward and the National Environmental Education Foundation, where he is currently Chairman. During 2011-2012, Anstrom, served as U.S. Ambassador and head of the U.S. delegation to the 2012 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-12), held under the auspices of the International Telecommunication Union. Anstrom retired as President of Landmark Communications and Chairman of the Board of Directors at The Weather Channel Companies in late 2008, following Landmark’s sale of The Weather Channel to NBC. Anstrom also served as a Member of the Board of Directors at the Comcast Corporation from 2001-2011 and chaired the Comcast Board’s Governance Committee and the Board of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. Prior to his positions at Landmark (headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia), Anstrom had a long career in public service and in the communications industry. During the Carter Administration, Anstrom was a senior staff member in the White House Office of Management and Budget, working on the creation of the U.S. Department of Education, and later served in the White House Office of Presidential Personnel. Anstrom subsequently joined and later became President of Public Strategies, a Washington-based public policy consulting firm, where he directed a broad range of public policy and economic analyses for investment banking, corporate, and non-profit clients. In 1987 Anstrom joined the National Cable Television Association (NCTA) as Executive Vice President; he became President and Chief Executive Officer in 1994. During his tenure Anstrom led the cable industry’s efforts that helped result in the Telecommunications Act of 1996. In 1999, Anstrom joined The Weather Channel Companies (TWCC) in Atlanta, GA as President and Chief Executive Officer. In 2002, Anstrom became President of Landmark Communications, a privately held diversified media company that owned newspapers, local television stations, database centers, print and classified advertising businesses and The Weather Channel Companies. In that position Anstrom also served as Chairman of the Board of Directors at TWCC. In addition, Anstrom served on numerous cable industry boards (including NCTA, which he chaired for two years) and two nonprofit boards in the Hampton Roads area: the Chrysler Museum and public television and radio broadcaster WHRO. Anstrom received a B.A. degree from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota and attended the Woodrow Wilson Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University for one year.
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About : Discovery is a multinational mass media factual television company covering science, history, geography, survival, and more.
Greta Fuentes
Director Of Development of Macro
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About Macro: Macro is a disruptive media company focused on the multicultural market.
