Meet United States's 101 Top VP's in the Advertising Space

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This list showcases the top United States based VP’ operating in the Advertising space. If you think a VP’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.

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Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
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Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
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Tom Lee

SVP, Corporate Development and Global Head of M&A of Verizon Media

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About Verizon Media: Verizon Media offers services in content, advertising, and technology with its brands such as Yahoo, TechCrunch, and more.

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Sumeet Singh

Vice President Big Data & AI and Location Platforms of Verizon Media

Sumeet Singh is the Vice President of Big Data, AI, and Location Platforms at Yahoo (now Verizon Media). Sumeet is considered an early leader of the big data movement, responsible for launching and scaling most services for Yahoo’s Hadoop platform since 2011. He has more than 20 years of experience in the high-tech, media, and telecommunications industries. Connect with Sumeet on Twitter @sumeetksingh.

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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.

Nicholas Bagg

Vice President, Head of Consumer Operations and Strategy of Verizon Media

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About Bagg Therapy Group, Verizon Media: Verizon Media offers services in content, advertising, and technology with its brands such as Yahoo, TechCrunch, and more.

Tenni Theurer

VP and Head of Product for News of Verizon Media

As an innovator & operational executive across consumer and technology domains at Yahoo, Visa and IBM, Tenni’s experience spans 17 years leading product and engineering teams delivering new strategies, features and services. She is currently Sr Director of Product Management where she oversees Yahoo.com and Yahoo News’ product portfolio at Oath. Prior to Yahoo, she was Sr Business Leader for Visa’s consumer digital wallet and mobile services. At IBM, Tenni worked in the Pervasive Computing group developing enterprise mobile solutions for B2B customers in US and Europe. She holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of California, San Diego.

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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.

George Fletcher

Identity Architect, VP of Verizon Media

George Fletcher’s identity “credentials” include work on OpenID Connect, OpenID 2, OAuth, OAuth2, User Managed Access (Kantara Initiative) as well as contributions to the Security Services (SAML) and XRI OASIS TCs. Previously, George also worked on the Liberty Alliance Identity Web Service Framework. In addition to his identity work, George Fletcher has 20+ years of software development and architecture experience covering a wide variety of disciplines including artificial intelligence, “real-time” media processing, graphical information systems, consumer electronic devices and large scale Internet deployments. George Fletcher is currently Chief Architect for Consumer Identity Services at AOL Inc.

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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.

Robert Slifka

VP of Engineering of Sharethrough USA

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About Sharethrough USA: Sharethrough is one of the top global independent omnichannel ad exchanges

Azim Nagree

EVP Operations and M&A of Scorpion

Azim Nagree is EVP Operations and M&A at Scorpion. Azim’s passion is making great companies part of the Scorpion family. For the past 15 years, Azim has held executive roles in various SaaS startups – helping them grow, scale, and ultimately exit. He has also worked at blue-chip companies like Dell and Bain & Co. He holds an MBA from The Wharton School of Business, with dual undergraduate degrees in Law and Economics from Bond University in Australia.

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About Nagree Consulting, Scorpion: Scorpion exists to better local small businesses and the communities they serve.

Grant Stratemeyer

VP of Business Development of Pixability

Grant is a sales and business development executive with more than 15 years experience in Digital Media and SaaS Platform technologies. Prior to Celtra, he was the Managing Director of Agency Development for Yahoo!, where he was responsible for building mutually beneficial relationships with Yahoo!’s strategic agency partners.

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About Pixability: Pixability is the leading platform for brand suitability and full-funnel performance across YouTube and Connected TV.

Matt Kamen

SVP Engineering of Foursquare

As vice president of engineering and head of enterprise, monetization, and core technology, Matt oversees some of Foursquare’s most distinctive work, including our revenue-driving engineering products—Pinpoint, Attribution, Place Insights, Native Ads and our Places developer tools—as well as Pilgrim, the venues database, and all of our data science and machine learning teams. Prior to joining Foursquare in 2011, Matt worked in search and web technologies for Goldman Sachs. A musician at heart—he plays the bass—he’s also a luthier. Born and raised in Manhattan and a Harvard graduate, he now lives in Washington Heights with his family.

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About Foursquare: Foursquare is a location technology platform offering business solutions and consumer products through a deep understanding of location.

Robert Joseph

VP, Engineering in Production of Foursquare

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About Foursquare: Foursquare is a location technology platform offering business solutions and consumer products through a deep understanding of location.

Adam Heimlich

SVP Programmatic, Managing Director of HX of Horizon media

Adam Heimlich works at Horizon Media leading HX, the agency’s programmatic buying department. Previously, Adam spent seven years at Razorfish and its predecessor, Avenue A. Adam joined Avenue A as a search marketer and headed the department for three years. Designed to make the programmatic opportunity accessible to any advertiser, HX is 100% cost-transparent and tech-agnostic, pursuing no interests other than client success.

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About Horizon media: Horizon Media, Inc. is the largest and fastest growing privately held media services agency in the world.

Michael Tripodi

VP, Digital Director of Horizon media

Michael Tripoldi has over 17 years of industry experience across both digital and traditional media types. Most recently, Michael was at Zenith Media where he oversaw all digital efforts for Verizon FiOS. His FiOS digital portfolio included a significant digital activation budget as well as overseeing ad technologies that allowed the media to be effectively measured, managed and delivered. Michael’s team deployed an assortment of digital tactics that sought out customers at the near household level to align with FiOS availability. Prior to leading the FiOS Digital efforts, Michael spent time at MediaVest running Comcast’s integrated communications for the Central United States across all media channels.

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About Horizon media: Horizon Media, Inc. is the largest and fastest growing privately held media services agency in the world.

Mary Shirley

SVP, Digital Media of Horizon media

Mary Shirley’s focus at Horizon has been evolving capabilities and vision within digital marketing for clients like GEICO, Capital One, A&E, and HISTORY. She’s guided client growth combining her background in traditional advertising and ad tech. As SVP Digital Media at Horizon Media, Mary lead the expansion of a new digital division within Horizon Media’s Eden Road Trading. She oversees media investment and strategic planning in conjunction with corporate trade, and is excited to continue to build first-to-market and strategic financial ventures. Prior to her work with Horizon, Mary helped develop one of the first digital private marketplaces at Quigo Technologies and managed program profitability for top web publishers. Mary began her career in account management at Bates Worldwide and JWT overseeing strategy development and production.

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About Horizon media: Horizon Media, Inc. is the largest and fastest growing privately held media services agency in the world.

DANIEL ALONSO

Vice President of Business Development of IMS Corporate

Daniel Alonso is Vice President of Business Development, managing new business opportunities for the company. Daniel brings vast experience in sales and marketing, including extensive international, Hispanic, Fortune 500 and start-up experience, with previous roles as vice president of business development at Terra Networks and senior director of marketing at Univision Enterprises. Daniel holds both an MBA and a BA from the University of Miami. He is based in our Miami office.

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About IMS Corporate: IMS is a digital marketing & communications company that partners with businesses seeking to expand in Latin America

Mimi Wotring

SVP Publisher Sales and Client Services of DoubleVerify

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About DoubleVerify: DoubleVerify is a software platform for digital media measurement, data, and analytics.

Tejal Engman

SVP Investor Relations of DoubleVerify

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About DoubleVerify: DoubleVerify is a software platform for digital media measurement, data, and analytics.

Aswin Shibu

VP of Sales of MixRank

VP of Sales, MixRank & Mattermark. Ex. Director of Sales, FullContact | Head of Sales, Profoundis | Founder&CEO at Sous Chef.

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About Mattermark, MixRank: MixRank combines robust Mobile App & Web Intelligence with a LiveScan Contacts Engine to Automate Lead Generation

Khudor Annous

SVP, Influencer Client Development of Branded Entertainment Network

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About Branded Entertainment Network, Entrepreneur.com, Twitch: Branded Entertainment Network is a marketing and advertising company providing entertainment content creating services.

Eoghan Geoghegan

Vice President of Business Development of MomentFeed

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About MomentFeed: MomentFeed is a platform that helps multi-location brands optimize for proximity search in order to connect customers with brands.

Pratik Bhadra

SVP of Product of Bluecore

Pratik is the SVP of Product at Bluecore. In this role, Pratik leads the evolution of the next generation email solution and the leapfrog to a retail performance platform. Previously, he was the VP of Product at Zeta Global, where he led the product initiative to define and build Zeta’s marketing cloud, incorporating several ESPs and marketing databases to form Zeta’s flagship product line. Prior to Zeta Global, Pratik held several software management roles at National Instruments. Pratik holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Austin.

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About Bluecore: Bluecore uses predictive intelligence to automatically connect shoppers to products, content, and offers, wherever they are.

Boris Revsin

Co-Founder and Executive Vice President of Business Development & Strategy of Dailybreak

Boris Revsin is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of CampusLIVE, Inc, “The Homepage for College Students,” providing single-click access to the most widely used college resources. Boris has an extensive background in web development and digital media, founding his first website in 1999. While attending UMass Amherst, he worked as the Head of Operations for the Amherst-based web-development firm JaredWeb, Inc and as a web consultant for the 2008 Mitt Romney Presidential Campaign. Boris, along with the CampusLIVE team, was named 3rd place in the 2008 BusinessWeek “Top 25 Entrepreneurs Under 25.” He has also been honored as an “Emerging Entrepreneur” by Deval Patrick and the Massachusetts Office of Business Development. BusinessWest Magazine named Boris Revsin to the 2010 class of “40 Under 40”.

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About Dailybreak, Fullstack Ventures, Republic, Republic Capital: A revolutionary online media platform that allows users to earn rewards for engaging in shareable, interactive content.

Jason Hubbard

VP of Growth of SalesIntel

Jason Hubbard is the VP of growth at SalesIntel.io and the VP of marketing at CircleBack, Inc. He is also the CEO and founder of YourGrowthExpert. Prior to that, Jason was the VP of marketing at Cirruspath.

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About Cirruspath, SalesIntel: SalesIntel is the top provider of accurate and affordable sales and marketing contact data.

Duncan Grazier

VP of Engineering of Weedmaps

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About Glimpse, Weedmaps: Weedmaps is the world’s first marijuana technology and media brand.

Michael O’Brien

Senior VP, General Counsel of Omnicom Group

Michael joined Omnicom Group as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary in November 2003. As Omnicom’s global chief legal officer, Michael advises the Board of Directors and its Committees, leads the Company’s worldwide legal team, manages legal services provided to the Company, and monitors the Company’s compliance with all applicable regulations around the world. Prior to Omnicom, Michael spent 15 years in private practice, representing private equity firms and their portfolio companies regarding acquisitions, financings, securities law compliance and corporate governance matters.

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About Omnicom Group: Omnicom Group provides advertising and marketing communications services for their clients.

Randall Weisenburger

CFO and Executive VP of Omnicom Group

Randall J. Weisenburger is Managing Member of Mile26 Capital LLC, and formerly was the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Omnicom Group Inc. Before joining Omnicom, Mr. Weisenburger was a founding member of Wasserstein Perella & Company Inc., and a former member of the First Boston Corp. Mr. Weisenburger’s other corporate board service includes the Carnival Corp. and Carnival PLC as well as The Health Hospital Corp. He is also a member of the Board of Overseers for the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and a member of the Board of Trustees for the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Foundation. He has served as a Valero director since 2011.

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About Omnicom Group: Omnicom Group provides advertising and marketing communications services for their clients.

Peter Swiecicki

Senior VP, Finance and Controller of Omnicom Group

As Controller, Swiecicki plays a key leadership role in financial management and business process optimization for Omnicom. He oversees the company’s financial processes and systems, as well as the planning and forecasting function. Prior to joining Omnicom in 2013, Swiecicki spent over 30 years at Omnicom’s BBDO in various roles. He started his career at BBDO as Controller, BBDO Detroit, rising to CFO and COO of the agency. In 2010, he assumed the role of CFO of BBDO Germany and then moved to BBDO Worldwide in New York to shepherd several worldwide process efficiency initiatives.

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About Omnicom Group: Omnicom Group provides advertising and marketing communications services for their clients.

Janet Riccio

Exec Vice President of Omnicom Group

Over the course of her 25+ years in advertising, her collaborative business style has taken her to more than 30 countries on five continents on behalf of her clients and forged a deep understanding of what it takes to build relationships and brands. Her belief that a motivated, fulfilled workforce leads to a healthier more profitable more sustainable bottom line is why she has been chosen to head Omnicom University. Omnicom University is recognized as one of the preeminent executive education experiences and one of the major sources of “cultural glue” for the Omnicom network. In partnership with Harvard Business School faculty, OU has graduated over 3500+ Omnicom executives over the course of its 20 years in existence. To quote Janet, after her first season as Dean, “This program is not about developing leaders, the people who attend already are; it is about transforming leaders from more than good to great.” Most recently, Janet founded and is currently heading an in-house women’s network – Omniwomen. The mission of Omniwomen is to serve as a catalyst to increase the influence and number of women leaders throughout the Omnicom network. Since its formal U.S. launch in April 2014, Omniwomen has expanded to China and the U.K. As passionate as Janet is about her roles at Omnicom, she is equally passionate about the role of women on management boards and in the philanthropic world. She served as a member of the Board of Directors of BlogHer, the world’s largest on-line community of women bloggers, and is currently on the Advisory Board of LearnVest. Janet is also a member of the Board of Directors of the New York Women’s Foundation on which she serves on the Executive Committee and chairs the Communications Committee. She is a past member of the Board of Directors of Make a Wish Foundation of Metro New York where she chaired the Governance Committee and, in her final year, co-chaired the Advisory Board.

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About Omnicom Group, Omnicom Group: Omnicom Group provides advertising and marketing communications services for their clients.

Rita Rodriguez

Executive Vice President of Omnicom Group

Rita Rodriguez is currently Executive Vice President at Omnicom Group where she leads the multi-agency integration and innovation for PepsiCo. With more than twenty-five years of marketing experience, Rita has a proven track record of transforming major brands and building businesses. Having worked on both sides of the business, agency and client, Rita has a unique mix of strategic expertise; brand building and collaboration skills that can help define and lead a course of action for clients and their brands Rita was previously CEO of Imagination, an experiential integrated communications company. Prior to Imagination, she was CEO of the US arm of WPP’s The Brand Union, a strategic branding and design firm, where she led the repositioning and rebranding of multiple businesses and served as a strategic advisor and partner for clients on brand and business issues. Before joining The Brand Union in 2004, Rita was Managing Director of Corporate Branding at Omnicom’s Interbrand. Rita began her career in Houston at AT&T, where over the course of her career she served as Director of Business and Consumer Marketing, International Marketing Director, Director of Product Marketing and Communications Services and General Manager of HomeTown Network (HTN), working in both the US and London.

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About Omnicom Group: Omnicom Group provides advertising and marketing communications services for their clients.

Dan Bratone

VP, Head of North American Business Development of The Trade Desk

Dan Bratone is the VP, Head of North American Business Development overseeing the development and management of The Trade Desk’s domestic new business teams, go to market strategies and sales operations. Dan’s career has spanned from entertainment to enterprise software with operational and leadership experience across Sales, Marketing, Partnerships, Product Development and Project Management with the last decade focused on building high performance revenue generation organizations for media focused SAAS platforms. Dan’s a recognized industry expert on digital marketing best practices in channels such as Programmatic media, SEM/SEO, and Social Media. Prior to the Trade Desk, Dan held sales leadership positions as the SVP, Americas at TBG Digital and as the VP of Sales for Efficient Frontier. At EF Dan built and led the sales teams focused on the Eastern Region and LATAM until its acquisition by Adobe Systems in 2011. Dan is a graduate of Syracuse University with an MBA from Fordham University.

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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.

Mike Blacker

VP, Enterprise Business Development of The Trade Desk

Mike Blacker is the VP of Strategic Business Development at The Trade Desk, a global demand-side-platform in the $5B real-time bidding industry. In his role, Mike prospects for new strategic clients across various industries and works extensively with existing clients to further embed The Trade Desk platform into their business. Mike is an adtech veteran with a string of start-up including Infoseek, CBS SportsLine, Epylon/Accenture, ExpertCity/Citrix, AudienceScience, Feeva, Quova and Neustar. Mike was one of the first to sell online ads back in 1996 and has spent his entire career working in various roles around digital advertising, adtech and ad platforms. Mike graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara and lives with his family in Ojai, CA.

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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.

David Danziger

Vice President, Data Partnerships of The Trade Desk

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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.

Joe Bardenheier

SVP, M&A of Endurance International Group

Joe Bardenheier has used his experience in business development to successfully complete over 50 acquisitions in his time at Endurance International Group. His path to Endurance started when he was Co-Founder, President and C.E.O. of The Gavin Group, an international apparel company that was sold to a public company in 1992. From there, he moved on to a senior position at Vanguard Sailboats where he was instrumental in the acquisition of its largest competitor. Joe then became a Senior Consultant with Ernst & Young prior to cofounding WebOnTap, which was acquired by Endurance in 2000. He has become a member of Endurance’s executive team, which has grown the firm from a start-up to one of the leading provider of cloud-based solutions designed to help small businesses establish, manage and grow their businesses. Joe graduated from Tufts University and received his M.B.A. from Babson College. When not helping Endurance grow by leaps and bounds, Joe enjoys alpine skiing and racing sailboats.

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About Endurance International Group: Endurance International Group provides small businesses with the products and technology they need to enhance their online presence.

Hannah Budreski

Vice President Marketing Communications of Endurance International Group

Hannah Budreski is Vice President of Marketing at Endurance International Group, a technology company focused on helping small businesses around the world and whose family of brands includes Constant Contact, Bluehost, HostGator, and Domain.com. During her 20 year career, Hannah has honed her skills at building brands, driving demand, and helping customers meet their milestones. Deeply passionate about small business, Hannah is accomplished at adding value for customers at all stages of their journey from those just starting out to established and expanding businesses.

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About Endurance International Group: Endurance International Group provides small businesses with the products and technology they need to enhance their online presence.

Vishwanath Ramarao

Vice President of Engineering of AOL

Vish is CTO and Co-Founder of Impermium. Before joining Impermium, Vish led engineering for Yahoo! Mail anti-spam, security, and data mining, and was involved in protecting every major component of the Yahoo! network from spam, fraud, misuse.

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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.

Michael Blum

SVP, Business and Legal Affairs of Quantcast

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About Quantcast: Quantcast helps create a more personalized digital world.

Christina Cubeta

VP Marketing of Quantcast

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About Quantcast: Quantcast helps create a more personalized digital world.

Brian Hanley

VP, Mobile Advertising of LionShare Media

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About LionShare Media: LionShare Media develops a media distribution platform-as-a-service to harness the power of converging and emerging technologies.

Karim De Martino

VP Business Development of Open Influence

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About Open Influence: Open Influence is a marketing company that helps brands and advertisers engage and grow their desired audiences through social media.

Jason Weber

VP of Business Development of Open Influence

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About Open Influence: Open Influence is a marketing company that helps brands and advertisers engage and grow their desired audiences through social media.

Erin Miller

VP of Account Management of Open Influence

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About Open Influence: Open Influence is a marketing company that helps brands and advertisers engage and grow their desired audiences through social media.

Barin Nahvi Rovzar

Senior Vice President & Head of M&A of Hearst Communications

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About Hearst Communications: Hearst is large private diversified media, information, and services company with more than 360 businesses

David Hahn

VP & CISO of Hearst Communications

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About CDK Global, Hearst Communications: Hearst is large private diversified media, information, and services company with more than 360 businesses

Michael E. Smith

SVP, Revenue Platforms and Operations of Hearst Communications

Mike Smith is Senior Vice President of Revenue Platforms and Operations, Hearst Magazines Digital Media and Senior Vice President, Advertising Platforms, Core Audience; Hearst Corporation. Smith joined Hearst in July 2013 and is responsible for all digital media revenue platforms, including the company’s programmatic sales engineering efforts through the Hearst Exchange as well as advertising operations, and digital ad product development. Prior to Hearst, Smith held a number of positions with Forbes, most recently as the President of Forbes.com and Chief Digital Officer of Forbes Media, where he oversaw the company’s technology departments, including IT systems, multi-platform development and digital strategy. He was also responsible for audience sales via auctions including trading desks, advertising operations, data and analytics, and yield management. Before joining Forbes.com as Chief Technology Officer, Smith was Vice President and Chief Information Officer at TheStreet.com, where he directed technology efforts, including application development, network engineering, website operations, global technology initiatives and business support systems and prior to that, was Director of Information Technology at HBO. Smith holds a network-technology related patent and is publishing his first book entitled “Targeted: How Technology Is Revolutionizing Advertising and the Way Companies Reach Consumers” in November of 2014, which will detail the online display advertising market on ad exchanges and real time bidding auction technologies. “Targeted” can be pre-ordered here: http://amzn.to/1s0r6Yb Smith graduated from the New Jersey Institute of Technology with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and has been a member of the Board of Visitors of NJIT’s Albert Dorman Honors College for 15 years, as well as the chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Education Law Center and a member of the School Consultative Board of Union Catholic High School.

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About Hearst Communications: Hearst is large private diversified media, information, and services company with more than 360 businesses

Bridget Williams

Chief Commercial Officer and SVP Digital Publishing of Hearst Communications

Bridget’s career has spanned from the first digital department of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, to New York Times Digital, to tech startups, and most recently Business Insider where she ran business development, strategy, and international expansion. This year she was named Coolest 100 in Tech from Business Insider and Folio Magazine’s Visionary 100.

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About Hearst Communications: Hearst is large private diversified media, information, and services company with more than 360 businesses

Melanie Colton

Vice President, Product & Technology of Hearst Communications

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About Hearst Communications: Hearst is large private diversified media, information, and services company with more than 360 businesses

Todd Haskell

Senior Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer, Hearst Magazines Digital Media of Hearst Communications

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About Hearst Communications: Hearst is large private diversified media, information, and services company with more than 360 businesses

Pauly Comtois

VP DevOps/Sr. Automation Engineer of Hearst Communications

Pauly is a former Chef employee and has spent the last 20 years building, developing and leading high performing Support, IT, Operations and Development teams in rapidly growing organizations. Pauly and Aaron Blythe will bring light and solutions to problems other organizations are sure to be facing.

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About Hearst Communications: Hearst is large private diversified media, information, and services company with more than 360 businesses

Steven Vine

EVP, Corporate Development & General Counsel of Zeta Global

Steven Vine has been Executive Vice President of Mergers & Acquisitions and General Counsel of Zeta Interactive Corporation since 2013. Vine served as an EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT of Zeta Interactive Corporation. He served as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development, Associate General Counsel and Chief Privacy Officer at PulsePoint, Inc. (formerly Datran Media Corp). Vine was responsible for managing consumer privacy commitment as well as government and industry relations. Where he led PulsePoint through multiple acquisitions and the transformation of its business into a leading RTB and Content Marketing platform. He joined Datran Media from Register.com, where he served as Deputy General Counsel with responsibility for oversight of the legal department and industry relations. He also serviced as an active Leader in ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. Prior to Register.com, Vine served as a Corporate Associate at the law firm Kaye Scholer, LLP, where he managed mergers and acquisitions, securities transactions and other general corporate matters. Vine holds a BA from Tufts University and JD from New York University.

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About Zeta Global: Zeta offers technology and marketing services to help brands acquire, engage, and retain customers.

David Schey

SVP CX/Strategy & Analytics of Zeta Global

David Schey, Zeta’s Senior VP of Customer Experience, has over 18 years of experience consulting Fortune 1,000 companies on optimizing marketing and CRM programs, within both digital and offline channels. Most recently, David served as Vice President/Group Director of Strategy and Analytics at DigitasLBi, where he led the S&A CRM practice. He has held leadership positions at Digitas, Merkle and Epsilon. Throughout his career, David has worked with a variety of national and global brands including PepsiCo, Pfizer, Unilever, Kraft, Tesco, Samsung, Comcast, The Limited, Urban Outfitters, T.J.Maxx, Toys “R” Us and Bed Bath & Beyond, to plan, measure and optimize CRM campaigns. He holds a B.S. in Marketing from the University of Maryland at College Park, and an M.B.A. in Marketing from Rutgers University.

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About Zeta Global: Zeta offers technology and marketing services to help brands acquire, engage, and retain customers.

Tom Walsh

EVP, Zeta Labs of Zeta Global

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About Zeta Global: Zeta offers technology and marketing services to help brands acquire, engage, and retain customers.

Andrew Bolton

SVP, Global Partnerships of Knotch

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About Knotch: Knotch is the content intelligence platform for brands. We pair performance data with consumer sentiment in real time.

Marcus McReynolds

Vice President, Digital of Fusion 360

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About Fusion 360: Fusion 360 Studios is our state-of-the-art digital video production facility.

Tom Click

VP Sales of Integrate

As VP of Sales, Tom Click holds direct responsibility for driving and supporting Integrate’s revenue growth. He leads all five of Integrate’s software sales divisions and is focused on establishing Integrate as the leading marketing software in its category. Tom has spent the entirety of his career in B2B sales and demand generation. He sold B2B solutions for Nextel prior to its merger with Sprint, and later spent 12 years with TechTarget, serving as sales director for the company’s $30m networking and security media business unit. Tom holds a bachelor’s degree in marketing from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst Isenberg School of Management.

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About Integrate: Integrate provides a hub for managing and measuring demand generation programs.

Frannie Danzinger

Vice President of Strategic Business Development of Integrate

Frannie Danzinger is currently VP, Strategic Business Development for Integrate, a pioneer in demand orchestration software. Frannie works with hundreds of B2B marketing organizations to develop and scale their revenue-generating machines. Her passion is to fully understand a marketer’s business and help to build a high-impact strategy, with efficient process, data and technology, to bring the strategy to life. Having worked with smart marketers, savvy business pros and sharp technology professionals during her roles at 6sense, eXelate, a Nielsen Company and Bizo over the last five years, Frannie fell in love with MarTech. She’s experienced first-hand the power of MarTech and its ability to catapult – and hold back – marketing teams and business results. Coupled with 20+ years of agency media experience, it’s easy to get excited about the road ahead in marketing and technology. When not working with marketers, Frannie channels her personal passion to fitness. She is a Group Fitness Instructor, Boxing Trainer, Spinning Instructor and Personal Trainer. If you cannot find her at her desk, be sure to check the gym!

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About Integrate: Integrate provides a hub for managing and measuring demand generation programs.

Colby Cavanaugh

VP Business Development & Alliances of Integrate

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About Integrate: Integrate provides a hub for managing and measuring demand generation programs.

Colby Cavanaugh

VP Business Development & Alliances of Integrate

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About Integrate: Integrate provides a hub for managing and measuring demand generation programs.

Assaf Baciu

SVP of Products & co-founder of Persado

Assaf Baciu is the SVP of Products and co-founder of Persado. He was the Vice President of Product Management at Upstream before that. Assaf is responsible for driving the development of Upstream’s next-generation mobile marketing solutions and identifying new markets for expansion. Prior to joining Upstream, Assaf worked for speech and imaging solutions supplier Nuance Communications as a senior director of product strategy where he was responsible for developing on-demand and mobile solutions. Assaf joined Nuance from BeVocal, following its acquisition in 2007, where he led product management and developed innovative multi-channel mobile strategies and solutions. Assaf holds a Masters in Business Administration from the University of San Francisco and he has a Masters in Social Psychology from the Sorbonne in Paris.

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About Persado: Persado Marketing Language Cloud delivers AI-generated language that resonates the most with any audience, segment or individual.

Mihir Nanavati

Executive Vice President, Product of NextRoll

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About NextRoll: NextRoll is a marketing technology company delivering products ambitious companies rely on to grow their businesses.

Jason Finkelstein

SVP Global Marketing of NextRoll

Jason is SVP Global Marketing at AdRoll, a division of NextRoll. He advises Traitify, Disconnect and Swellbox. He was formerly Chief Revenue Officer at Traitify and before that Chief Marketing Officer at AVG Technologies (NYSE: AVG), who was acquired by Avast Software in 2016 for $1.3B. Before AVG, he was Chief Marketing Officer at Location Labs which AVG acquired in 2014 for $220M. Prior to Location Labs, Jason served in various product management, investment professional, and entrepreneurial roles at Funambol, Vindigo and Millennium Technology Ventures. Jason holds an MBA in Marketing and Entrepreneurship from Columbia Business School. He also holds a Bachelors in Computer Science and Economics from Duke University.

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About NextRoll: NextRoll is a marketing technology company delivering products ambitious companies rely on to grow their businesses.

Anthony Oland

Senior Vice President of Human Resources of KBM Group

Anthony Oland is the Global Chief People Officer at Boxed.

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About Boxed, KBM Group, Wunderman Thompson: KBM Group is a data analysis group that helps identify trends and teaches how to engage customers.

Tom Young

Executive Vice President of Client Delivery Services of KBM Group

Tom Young is executive vice president of client delivery services for KBM Group. Tom Young leads the teams responsible for our data, database marketing and CRM solutions, which include technical design, development, implementation and customer support of our AmeriLINK® data services and database marketing offerings. Tom Young also oversees our IT solutions, business intelligence and enterprise infrastructure groups. Tom Young has over 25 years’ experience designing, developing and implementing technology solutions for automated database marketing and other business critical challenges. As an executive sponsor, Tom Young is actively involved with KBM Group’s largest clients bringing thought leadership on enabling practical consumer engagement strategies, and the technology and execution resources to make it happen. C Clients respect his ability to understand and address the underlying causes of their marketing challenges with business-justified solutions. Today, his creative strategic solutions help clients tackle multi-channel attribution, integrate disparate data silos and make real-time intelligence-based decisions to customize conversations with consumers on the fly. Before joining KBM Group, Tom Young was president of Component Solutions, Inc. specializing in business process re-engineering, customer relationship management, database marketing, data warehousing and business intelligence solutions for clients such as Union Pacific Railroad, Staples, Inc., and Owen Healthcare. Prior to this, Tom Young was partner and vice president of operations for Project Solutions Corporation, Inc., which provided business management solutions to multinational companies and government agencies. Tom Young worked with more than 40 major corporations and government agencies in Europe, South America and the United States.

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About Choreograph, KBM Group, Wunderman Thompson Data: KBM Group is a data analysis group that helps identify trends and teaches how to engage customers.

Andrei Lapets

VP, Engineering & Applied Cryptography of Magnite

Currently Chief Science Officer and Co-Founder at Nth Party, Ltd., Andrei is involved in a number of early-stage technology companies working in the areas of cybersecurity, data science, and formal methods.

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About Magnite, Nth Party, Reity LLC: Magnite is a sell-side advertising platform that provides technology for publishers to monetize their content across all screens and format.

Garrett McGrath

Vice President, Product Management of Magnite

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About Magnite: Magnite is a sell-side advertising platform that provides technology for publishers to monetize their content across all screens and format.

Abdellah Cherkaoui

Senior Vice President – Government, Automotive & Utilities of Volta Charging

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About Volta Charging: Volta Charging designs, installs, and maintains a network of electric vehicle charging stations.

Anne Lukanc

Vice President Sales of Volta Charging

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About Volta Charging: Volta Charging designs, installs, and maintains a network of electric vehicle charging stations.

Ross Hatamiya

Vice President of Media Sales of Volta Charging

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About Volta Charging: Volta Charging designs, installs, and maintains a network of electric vehicle charging stations.

Mike Schott

Senior Vice President, Sales of Volta Charging

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About Volta Charging: Volta Charging designs, installs, and maintains a network of electric vehicle charging stations.

Quentin Archibeck

VP of Media Sales, Western Region of Volta Charging

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About Volta Charging: Volta Charging designs, installs, and maintains a network of electric vehicle charging stations.

Lisa (Gulan) Brickson

VP of Media Sales of Volta Charging

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About Volta Charging: Volta Charging designs, installs, and maintains a network of electric vehicle charging stations.

Gina Kosta

VP of Sales of MediaAlpha

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About MediaAlpha: MediaAlpha is an advertising technology company that develops programmatic advertising platforms.

Coleen Kuehn

EVP, Travel, Media & Entertainment Practice of Merkle

Coleen Kuehn In Coleen’s role as chief media officer, she is responsible for the leadership of Merkle’s media portfolio across search, display, social, and performance media as well as overseeing communications strategy capabilities. Coleen is a seasoned executive with 20 years of experience in marketing, strategic planning, digital media, and technology. As an innovative and results-driven leader, Kuehn was named one of Advertising Age’s esteemed “Women to Watch.” She began her career in marketing and product development roles for American Express and The Coca-Cola Company after receiving an MBA from University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. Prior to joining Merkle, Coleen served as president at Mediavest, a global agency, where she was responsible for strategic oversight, integrated solutions, and client adoption of new technologies. She began as President of Strategy & Planning and was responsible for developing the agency’s communications planning methodology as well as its proprietary tools. Given her strong client relationships and leadership skills, she went on to assume the role of President, Client Leadership at Mediavest. Coleen was also a member of Mediavest’s Executive Leadership team of eight that determined the vision and overall direction for the agency. Prior to joining Mediavest, Coleen was Chief Strategist at Havas|MPG and President of Digital & Emerging media at MediaCom.

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About Merkle: Merkle is a customer relationship management agency that designs, executes and evaluates integrated marketing programs.

Amanda Gessert

Vice President, Analytics of Merkle

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About Merkle: Merkle is a customer relationship management agency that designs, executes and evaluates integrated marketing programs.

Dave Morgan

CEO & Founder & Vice President, Sports Digital News of Simulmedia

Morgan is the CEO and founder of Simulmedia, a New York based marketing technology company that uses data, science and software to drive business outcomes for advertisers through traditional TV marketing. He previously founded and ran both TACODA, Inc., an online advertising company that pioneered behavioral online marketing and was acquired by AOL in 2007 for $275 million, and Real Media, Inc., one of the world’s first ad serving and online ad network companies and a predecessor to 24/7 Real Media (TFSM), which was later sold to WPP for $649 million. After the sale of TACODA, Dave served as Executive Vice President, Global Advertising Strategy, at AOL, a Time Warner Company (TWX).

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About Simulmedia, Sinclair Broadcast Group: Simulmedia is a TV ad platform that enables predictable, scalable customer growth.

Dennis Mink

VP Marketing of Liftoff

Out-of-the-box marketing professional with a passion for building cloud-based products and services. Deep experience with SaaS, mobile and marketing technology. Highly motivated self-starter.

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About Liftoff: Liftoff is a mobile app marketing and retargeting platform which uses post-install data to run true CPA-optimized campaigns.

Meg Runeari

Vice President of Business Operations, North America of Teads US

Meg Runeari is the Vice President of Business Operations, North America at Teads, leading operational strategy and business efficiencies across a dedicated team of account and project managers. Meg’s key focus is to bring quality advertising to engaged audiences in environments that are not only safe for brands but also respect the user. With ten years of experience in the digital space and deep-rooted industry relationships with leading verification vendors, Meg is doing her part to keep the digital ecosystem clean.

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About Teads US, Teads US: Teads US invented outstream video advertising and is the no.1 video advertising marketplace in the world.

Gilad Lotan

VP, Head of Data Science of BuzzFeed

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About BuzzFeed, New York University: BuzzFeed is a cross-platform digital media company delivering news and entertainment content to a global audience.

Shani Hilton

VP of News and Programming of BuzzFeed

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About BuzzFeed: BuzzFeed is a cross-platform digital media company delivering news and entertainment content to a global audience.

Shana Radparvar

VP of Finance and Operations of Channel Factory

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About Channel Factory: Channel Factory is the world leader in YouTube brand suitability, content alignment and ad performance.

Dylan Conroy

SVP Integrated Media Sales of Channel Factory

Media seller focused on you tube, influencer marketing and branded content. Love golf, food, live music, surfing, tennis, racquetball, being a dad, mountain biking, connecting to my higher power, staying sober, running, etc.

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About Channel Factory: Channel Factory is the world leader in YouTube brand suitability, content alignment and ad performance.

Jonathan Rogin

Vice President Sales of Channel Factory

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About Channel Factory: Channel Factory is the world leader in YouTube brand suitability, content alignment and ad performance.

Paul Imhoff

VP, Sales & Marketing of Channel Factory

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About Channel Factory: Channel Factory is the world leader in YouTube brand suitability, content alignment and ad performance.

Matt Felser

VP of Technology of Grandex

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About Grandex: Commerce powered by original media

Ken Mallon

SVP & Head of Data Products of Samba TV

Digital advertising product leader making insights, targeting and measurement products at scale for both the hand-sold and programmatic world. Held leadership roles in this space since 2000 at top publishers (Microsoft, Yahoo!) and research companies (Dynamic Logic/Millward Brown, Ipsos ASI). Highly trained at top universities (Stanford, Johns Hopkins) in mathematical sciences, extensive experience working with and managing engineers, product/program managers, marketers and various sales roles. Career has been characterized by high-impact innovations in behavioral targeting, closed looped targeting/measurement systems and deep consumer insights products. Rapid prototyping, customer input and iteration development style. Leveraging 15+ year experience in targeting, measurement and insights innovation, combined with 4INFO’s unique secret sauce, to bring industry-leading, closed-loop targeting and sales lift measurement to mobile and cross-screen advertisers. As CPO, I manage both the Data Science and Product Teams at 4INFO. In addition to our science and data driven targeting and measurement solutions for advertisers, we are also building out Platform-as-a-Service solutions for DMPs, data partners, publishers and major advertisers. Our unique ability to make nearly all US smart devices addressable, means our match key can power the future of Martech in amazing ways.

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About Samba TV: Samba TV enables the next-generation TV experience powered by its first-party data and helps viewers engage with relevant media.

Leon Pilosof

Senior Vice President, Head of Procurement of Lionsgate

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About Lionsgate: Lionsgate is a premier next generation global content leader.

Daniel Engelhardt

Vice President of Interactive Ventures & Games of Lionsgate

As vp, interactive ventures & games, daniel engelhardt handles strategic planning, business development, production, marketing and creative oversight for lionsgate’s games slate. He also supports lionsgate’s strategic investments within the games space including telltale, next games and professional esports franchise immortals which owns the los angeles valiant, one of twelve teams competing in the inaugural season of the overwatch league. Mr. Engelhardt reports to peter levin, president, interactive ventures, games & digital strategy, and has worked hand-in-hand to help launch the company’s games and interactive division.

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About Lionsgate: Lionsgate is a premier next generation global content leader.

Thai Randolph

SVP, Marketing & Monetization – Laugh Out Loud Network of Lionsgate

Thai Randolph is an award-winning marketing and business development leader who has spent her career at the intersection of content, consumers and commerce. She has a proven track-record of building brands, audiences and driving revenue for some of the world’s biggest brands across consumer products, tech and entertainment. Randolph currently serves as SVP of Marketing & Monetization for Laugh Out Loud (LOL) network, a comedy brand and multi-platform network in partnership from Lionsgate and Kevin Hart. Here Randolph leads brand strategy, audience development, ad sales, brand partnerships, new digital monetization strategies and revenue streams. She is responsible for spearheading LOL’s content distribution initiatives, including its streaming service and multi-platform network. She also oversees the vision, strategy and management of LOL’s digital marketing platforms and leads a multidisciplinary team covering CRM, social media, digital advertising and creative. Prior to joining Laugh Out Loud, Randolph was a member of Facebook’s Global Marketing Solution’s team. In this role, she managed strategic partnerships and digital transformation initiatives with some of the most innovative marketing and technology agencies in the US. Randolph served as CMO & SVP, Marketing for Sony DADC New Media Solution’s GENERATOR business unit. Randolph was named Black Enterprise’s Leading Women in Advertising and Marketing in 2016 for her work transforming Sony Music’s direct-to-consumer (DTC) digital group from an internal cost center to an independent digital marketing and ecommerce service provider. Her efforts attracted 3rd party media and entertainment clients such as AMC Networks, A+E Networks and Universal Music Group. A seasoned agency executive, Randolph’s experience includes digital leadership roles with WPP (VML) and Publicis (Moxie Interactive) agencies, where she’s provided new media strategy and consultation to world-class brands including Verizon Wireless, Dell, Saks Fifth Avenue, Colgate-Palmolive and Revlon. She holds B.A. in Communications with a minor in Performing Arts in American University and is co-founder of I2AM, a nonprofit she founded with her brother dedicated to increasing educational and cultural access at-risk youth.

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About Lionsgate: Lionsgate is a premier next generation global content leader.

Michael Kopeikin

VP, Digital Marketing and Ad Tech of Publicis Groupe

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About Publicis Groupe: Publicis Groupe is a digital and interactive communication services provider.

Michael Cadieux

Vice President / NA Procurement Officer of Publicis Groupe

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About Publicis Groupe: Publicis Groupe is a digital and interactive communication services provider.

Whitney Jones

SVP Data & Analysis of Publicis Groupe

Whitney helps Samsung incorporate data-driven insights into all aspects of the media planning and measurement process. During her 8 years with Publicis Groupe, she has helped infuse a new standard of data strategy, measurement, and insight. She has lead teams across a spectrum of digital and offline analytics projects, driving relationship strategy for multiple B2C and B2B initiatives and helping clients achieve maximum ROI in the digital space. Her experience spans verticals including consumer electronics, beauty, CPG, automotive, retail and travel. Previously, Whitney held roles in Product Management at DataXu, where she spearheaded the development of their Data Management and Analytics suite of solutions. Whitney began her career in the Telecom space, as an analyst at the Boston-based consultancy Atlantic-ACM. Whitney holds a BA in Economics from Colby College.

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About Digitas, Publicis Groupe: Publicis Groupe is a digital and interactive communication services provider.

Kevin Park

Head of CampaignDivision2 / Vice President of Cheil Worldwide

Kevin Park has served as the President of company operations in Germany in 2006 after being in charge of Global Brand Communications in 2003 and working for the Campaign team since joining Cheil Worldwide in 1993. He also served as the Head of European operations after being appointed to Executive in 2010. He is currently responsible for Campaign Division2 (Global Campaign Division).

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About Cheil Worldwide: Cheil Worldwide is a global marketing and communications company headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

Ran Buck

SVP of Global Revenue of Taboola

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About Taboola: Taboola is an AI-powered content discovery platform that connects people with content on the web that suits their interests.

Chris Rooke

SVP Strategy and Operations of Nativo

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About Nativo: Nativo is an advertising technology platform for brand advertisers and publishers to scale, automate, and measure native ads.