Best Startup
At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based VP’ operating in the Publishing space. If you think a VP’ 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.
Evan Neufeld
VP, Intelligence of L2
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About Gartner, L2: L2 is a digital innovation company providing research, curated events and targeted consulting engagements for brands.
Haroon Mokhtarzada
VP Digital Products of Cimpress
Haroon Mokhtarzada, together with two of his brothers founded Freewebs in 2001. In 2006 Haroon raised $12m in capital for Freewebs (later renamed to [Webs]. In 2007, he co-Founded [SGN], the Social Gaming Network, and spun it out as a separate company after raising $15m in venture capital. SGN was acquired by [Mindjolt] in 2010. Webs was acquired by Vistaprint in 2011 for $117.5 million. Haroon is now VP of Digital Products at Vistaprint and is an active angel investor and advisor.
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About Cimpress, The Aspen Institute, Truebill: Cimpress is a developer of software and manufacturing capabilities that transform traditional markets in order to make customized products.
Trynka Shineman
EVP & President, Vistaprint BU of Cimpress
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About Cimpress: Cimpress is a developer of software and manufacturing capabilities that transform traditional markets in order to make customized products.
Don Nelson
EVP, Chief Operating Officer of Cimpress
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About Cimpress: Cimpress is a developer of software and manufacturing capabilities that transform traditional markets in order to make customized products.
Sean Quinn
SVP, Chief Financial Officer of Cimpress
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About Cimpress: Cimpress is a developer of software and manufacturing capabilities that transform traditional markets in order to make customized products.
Jim Cutler
SVP, Chief Talent Officer of Cimpress
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About Cimpress: Cimpress is a developer of software and manufacturing capabilities that transform traditional markets in order to make customized products.
Jim Cutler
SVP, Chief Talent Officer of Cimpress
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About Cimpress: Cimpress is a developer of software and manufacturing capabilities that transform traditional markets in order to make customized products.
Lawrence Gold
SVP, Chief Legal Officer of Cimpress
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About Cimpress: Cimpress is a developer of software and manufacturing capabilities that transform traditional markets in order to make customized products.
Victoria Alonso
Executive Vice President of Production of Marvel Studios
A native of Buenos Aires, Victoria Alonso began her industry career in visual effects, including a four-year stint at Digital Domain. She served as VFX producer on a handful of films, notably including Ridley Scott’s “Kingdom of Heaven,” Tim Burton’s “Big Fish,” Andrew Adamson’s “Shrek,” and Marvel’s own “Iron Man.” She won the Visual Effects Society (VES) Award for outstanding supporting visual effects/motion picture for “Kingdom of Heaven,” with two additional shared nominations (best single visual effects, outstanding visual effects/effects driven motion picture) for “Iron Man.”
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About Marvel Studios: Marvel Studios is a media production studio focusing on creating content based on Marvel Comics.
William Nutting
Vice President of Ogden Newspapers
William O. Nutting is Vice President at Ogden Newspapers. He is Member of the Board of Directors at Associated Press.
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About Ogden Newspapers: Ogden Newspapers, Inc., is a diversified media corporation that publishes 40 daily newspapers, several magazines, weekly newspapers.
Jennifer Perri
Vice President, Univision Creator Network of Univision Communications
Jennifer Perri is Vice President of the Univision Creator Network. For the last two years, Jen has lead the charge in cross platform integration of influencers and brands within Univision. She’s been with UCN since 2015 and helped build an in-house multi-channel network that is now the No. 1 Hispanic focused MCN on YouTube in less than two years. Under Jen’s leadership, UCN has attracted and signed over 200 young and diverse digital talent and has fostered a real sense of community. UCN creators have been integrated across digital, linear and live events, and have expanded Univision’s content offering and have helped us to connect with Hispanic millennials. Prior to her role at Univision, Jen held strategy and development positions at Seventeen (Hearst and Awesomeness TV), Collective Digital Studios (now Studio 71) and co-founded BigFrame. Jen also was a producer and production manager on Current TV, which won the first Emmy award for Best Interactive Television Series at the Primetime Emmy Awards. She is a graduate of the University of San Francisco in Communication studies.
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About Univision Communications: Univision Communications is a media company that provides media-related services.
Peter Lori
EVP Finance of Univision Communications
Peter H. Lori is executive vice president, Finance, chief accounting officer and deputy chief financial officer for Univision Communications Inc. (UCI), the leading media company serving Hispanic America. Based in Teaneck, he leads Univision’s corporate finance team. Prior to joining Univision, Lori served as an audit partner at KPMG, LLP, where he was responsible for supervising the delivery of financial statement audit and advisory services to large corporate clients in a wide variety of industries. Prior to that, he served as an audit manager and partner at Arthur Andersen, LLP, where he worked for 15 years. Lori is a certified public accountant in New York and New Jersey. He holds a bachelor of science degree in accounting from Montclair State University.
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About Univision Communications: Univision Communications is a media company that provides media-related services.
Simone Knight
VP, Marketing Strategy and Media Intelligence of Univision Communications
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About Univision Communications: Univision Communications is a media company that provides media-related services.
Blake Jorgensen
EVP & Chief Financial Officer of Electronic Arts
Blake Jorgensen is the EVP & Chief Financial Officer of Electronic Arts where he is responsible for EA’s financial management. Blake joined EA in 2012 with over 20 years of experience in finance spanning across different industries, with a deep understanding of technology, consumer products, online commerce and entertainment. Prior to joining EA, Blake served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Levi Strauss & Co. Previously, he was Chief Financial Officer of Yahoo! Inc., from June 2007 to June 2009. Before joining Yahoo! Inc., Blake was the Chief Operating Officer and Co-Director of Investment Banking at Thomas Weisel Partners, which he co-founded in 1998. He has also held financial and operational positions at Montgomery Securities, MAC Group/Gemini Consulting and Marakon Associates. Blake holds a degree in Economics from Stanford and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. He and his wife Debbie live in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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About Electronic Arts: Electronic Arts delivers games, content, and online services for internet-connected consoles, PCs, mobile phones, and tablets.
Christina Sawyer
VP, People Practices of Electronic Arts
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About Astia Angels, Electronic Arts: Electronic Arts delivers games, content, and online services for internet-connected consoles, PCs, mobile phones, and tablets.
Christina Sawyer
VP, People Practices of Electronic Arts
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About Astia Angels, Electronic Arts: Electronic Arts delivers games, content, and online services for internet-connected consoles, PCs, mobile phones, and tablets.
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.
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
Michele Anthony
Executive Vice President of Universal Music Group
Michele Anthony is Executive Vice President of Universal Music Group. Among her responsibilities, Anthony oversees the U.S. Commercial Services Division that includes sales, live events, label merchandising, college marketing and fan and consumer engagement. In that role, she works with the company’s U.S. labels to maximize commercial and strategic opportunities to establish new revenue streams, form alliances with third parties, and create a variety of special projects. Additionally, Anthony is responsible for UMG’s global brand partnerships, the company’s Canadian operations and Universal Music Enterprises, the U.S. catalog division. She also oversees development of UMG’s film, television and theatrical projects alongside Universal Music Publishing Group Chairman and CEO Jody Gerson. Anthony has an unparalleled depth of experience on both the label and artist sides of the industry. She most recently founded 7H Entertainment, a consulting and management firm whose clients included Pearl Jam, Black Sabbath & Ozzy Osbourne, Prince, Björk and Soundgarden. Prior to forming 7H in 2006, Anthony was President and Chief Operating Officer of the Sony Music Label Group U.S. where she oversaw the day-to-day management and operations of the company’s labels. Before Sony Music, Anthony was a partner in the entertainment law firm of Manatt, Phelps, Rothenberg & Phillips, where her clients included Guns N’ Roses, Alice In Chains, Ozzy Osbourne, Soundgarden, Rick Rubin, Sub Pop Records, The Sugarcubes and The Pixies. Anthony also chairs the Global Poverty Project (GPP) – Global Citizen Tickets Initiative, a campaign whereby major artists donate concert tickets that are earned when users take specified actions to end global poverty. She also is an advisor for GPP’s Annual Central Park Global Citizen Festival.
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About Universal Music Group: Universal Music Group offers music recording, publishing, and merchandising services worldwide.
Boyd Muir
EVP , Chief Financial Officer & President of Operations of Universal Music Group
Boyd Muir is the Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer & President of Operations at Universal Music Group.
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About Universal Music Group, VNYL: Universal Music Group offers music recording, publishing, and merchandising services worldwide.
Tina Bright
Vice President, Talent Acquisition of Universal Music Group
Tina Bright is the recruiting operations program manager for Universal Music Group (UMG), where she leads and supports program initiatives and improvement efforts within talent management, including but not limited to: global ATS implementation and system refinement, recruitment process improvement (recruiters and hiring managers), recruitment policies, behavioral-based training, IT assessment, and branding implementation, onboarding improvement, etc. These efforts support the company’s goals and objectives to ensure UMG recruits and retains top talent across business entities.
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About Universal Music Group: Universal Music Group offers music recording, publishing, and merchandising services worldwide.
Jason Feinberg
Senior Vice President, Marketing of Universal Music Group
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About Universal Music Group: Universal Music Group offers music recording, publishing, and merchandising services worldwide.
Cora Creed
Vice President – Business Transformation of Universal Music Group
Cora is a driven senior digital media executive with almost 20 years of experience and expertise in business transformation in the digital space with an emphasis on operations and digital distribution, having worked with some of the worlds leading music brands including Napster, Sony and EMI during her career. She is currently Vice President – Process Innovation and Advanced Operations – with Universal Music Group.
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About Universal Music Group: Universal Music Group offers music recording, publishing, and merchandising services worldwide.
Steven Bertoni
Vice President & Senior Editor of Forbes
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About Forbes: Forbes, featuring articles on finance, industry, investing, and marketing topics.
Jen Singerman
VP of Marketing & Communications of Scribd
Jen Singerman is the VP of Marketing and Communications at Scribd.
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About Scribd: Scribd is an unlimited reading subscription that offers access to books, audiobooks, magazine articles, documents and more.
Sabeen Minns
SVP of Product and Engineering of Scribd
Sabeen Minns is the SVP of Product and Engineering at Scribd.
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About Scribd: Scribd is an unlimited reading subscription that offers access to books, audiobooks, magazine articles, documents and more.
Rama Sadasivan
VP of Business Development of Scribd
Rama Sadasivan is a VP of Business Development at Scribd.
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About Scribd: Scribd is an unlimited reading subscription that offers access to books, audiobooks, magazine articles, documents and more.
Andrew Weinstein
Vice President of Content Acquisition and Strategy of Scribd
Andrew Weinstein is the Vice President of Content Acquisition and Strategy at Scribd.
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About Scribd: Scribd is an unlimited reading subscription that offers access to books, audiobooks, magazine articles, documents and more.
Meghan Cochran
VP of Product of Scribd
Meghan Cochran is the VP of Product at Scribd. He was a VP of Product & Design at Tulip Cremation. Ms. Cochran received an MBA in General Management at Harvard Business School and earned an MA in English at New York University.
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About Scribd: Scribd is an unlimited reading subscription that offers access to books, audiobooks, magazine articles, documents and more.
Christopher Guenther
SVP, Global Head of Programmatic of News Corp
SVP, Global Head of Programmatic at News Corp.
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About ArcSpan Technologies, News Corp: News Corp is a media and information services company that creates and distributes engaging content and other products and services.
Joel Klein
EVP – Office of the Chairman of News Corp
Joel, an education visionary and proven leader of change, was former chief executive officer at Amplify. Joel was chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, where he oversaw a system of 1.1 million students and 136,000 employees. While there he led systemwide transformations that resulted in significant improvement in student performance. Under Joel’s leadership, high school graduation rates in the city rose 20 points—an increase of more than 40 percent.
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About News Corp: News Corp is a media and information services company that creates and distributes engaging content and other products and services.
Deborah Brewster
Senior Vice President (Strategy); and Head of Initiatives of News Corp
Deborah Brewster is Senior Vice President (Strategy), and Head of Initiatives at News Corp, which includes developing News Corp’s businesses as well as building and acquiring new digital businesses. Before this, she was Deputy Managing Editor at The Wall Street Journal.
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About News Corp: News Corp is a media and information services company that creates and distributes engaging content and other products and services.
Neal Lipschutz
Managing Editor & SVP – Dow Jones Newswires of Dow Jones
Neal Lipschutz is senior vice president and managing editor of Dow Jones Newswires, a unit of Dow Jones & Company. He assumed this role in January 2007 after serving as vice president where he directly supervised the news staffs in the Americas and served as chief arbiter of and spokesman for news policies, coverage and standards on a global basis. In his current role, Neal has global responsibility for Dow Jones Newswires editorial. Prior to assuming his role as vice president, Lipschutz served as senior editor, Americas, for Dow Jones Newswires from 1999 to 2005. In this position, he was responsible for Newswires’ editorial operations throughout the Americas. Neal continues to write “Point of View” columns on a regular basis for Newswires. Lipschutz also served as managing editor of the Dow Jones News Service, the newswire covering the U.S. equities markets, public companies and the events that affect them, from 1997 to 1999. In 1982, Neal joined Dow Jones as a copyreader for the Capital Markets Report. Neal was later promoted to copy editor, and in 1988, became a news editor. Neal moved to the Dow Jones News Service as assistant managing editor in February 1989 and was named deputy managing editor in March 1990. Neal’s work was included in group entries from Dow Jones Newswires that received awards from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers three times. His articles, essays and reviews have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, The Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly, The New York Times, The Baltimore Sun and many other publications. Neal began his journalism career in 1978 at the Paper Trade Journal in New York where he was an associate editor. In 1980, Neal became a reporter for Commodity News Services in New York City and Washington, D.C.
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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.
Paul A. Gigot
Editorial Page Editor & VP – The Wall Street Journal of Dow Jones
Paul A. Gigot is the Editorial Page Editor and Vice President of The Wall Street Journal, a position he has held since 2001. Paul is responsible for the newspaper’s editorials, op-ed articles and Leisure & Arts criticism, and he directs the editorial pages of the Journal’s Asian and European editions and OpinionJournal.com. Paul is also the host of The Journal Editorial Report weekly news program on the Fox News Channel. Gigot joined the Journal in 1980 as a reporter in Chicago. In 1982, he became the Journal’s Asia correspondent based in Hong Kong. He won an Overseas Press Club award for his reporting on the Philippines. In 1984, he was named the first editorial page editor of The Asian Wall Street Journal. In 1987, he was assigned to Washington, D.C., where he contributed editorials and the weekly Potomac Watch column, which won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. Gigot is a graduate of Dartmouth College.
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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.
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.
Amy Bernstein
Editor, HBR; Vice President and Executive Editorial Director, of Harvard Business Review
Amy Bernstein is the editor of Harvard Business Review, where she oversees the magazine and its team of editors. Before joining HBR in 2011, she was Vice President, Global Thought Leadership, at ManpowerGroup, the global employment-services company. There she led the organization’s thought leadership program, focusing on emerging trends in the world of work. She also launched MyPath, the industry’s first career-management website for professionals.
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About Harvard Business Review: Harvard Business Review is a magazine that helps enterprises improve the practice of management.
Adrienne Horsley
VP of Content of Tapas Media
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About Tapas Media: Creator platform for “Daily Story Snacks” — bite-sized comics and novels
April Kim
VP of Marketing of Tapas Media
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About Tapas Media: Creator platform for “Daily Story Snacks” — bite-sized comics and novels
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.
Tom Turner
Senior Vice President of Rogers Communications
Tom is the Senior Vice President, Medium Business and has been with the Rogers Group of Companies for over 20 years, holding various executive positions in Rogers Communications Inc., Rogers Cable and Rogers Wireless. In his time with Rogers, he has had the privilege of supporting Finance, and Marketing in addition to Sales. Prior to assuming his current role, Tom served as VP of Sales for Rogers Business Solutions, a division of Rogers Communications, that provided premium Internet, data networking, voice, data centre and cloud services to a wide range of enterprise, government and wholesale customers. Tom has held positions as VP Sales Planning & Operations, VP/GM High Speed Internet and VP Convergence, reporting directly to Ted Rogers. Tom’s significant contributions have been leading Rogers High Speed Internet business, launching Canada’s first Digital PCS and prepaid services and managing Rogers’ largest distribution channels and regions. Tom has a Bachelor of Arts, Political Science from Michigan State University and a Juris Doctorate from Michigan State University College of Law.
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About Rogers Communications: Rogers Communications is a communications and media company that specializes in telecommunications and internet.
Tim Ditlow
VP, Content of Epic
Former VP/Publisher, Listening Library/Random House and Grammy award-winning audiobook producer.
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About Epic: Epic is an internet company that specializes in books, eBooks learning, and educational technology.
Alisa Menell
VP of Marketing of Epic
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About Epic: Epic is an internet company that specializes in books, eBooks learning, and educational technology.
Josh Rosenblatt
SVP of Development & General Counsel of BTC Media
Josh Rosenblatt is the senior vice president of development and general counsel at BTC Inc. Through its subsidiaries, BTC Inc is the publisher of the world’s leading digital and print publications dedicated to the cryptocurrency and blockchain spaces, an internationally recognized conference series, a blockchain venture studio, a marketing firm and more. The company has reached millions of readers, fulfilled dozens of clients and pioneered technology that is helping build the future.
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About BTC Media, Fold: BTC Media is Bitcoin media group, providing education and information through its family of products and services.
Jason Gray
Vice President of Portfolio Operations of LaunchCapital
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About LaunchCapital: LaunchCapital was founded in January 2008 with a mission to help entrepreneurs gain quick access to seed capital and mentorship.
Tre Jones
Senior Vice President, Growth of Dotdash
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About Dotdash: Dotdash’s vibrant brands help over 100 million users each month find answers, solve problems, and get inspired.
Cory LaMay
VP, Supply Operations and Programmatic Integration of Bidtellect – Native Intelligence
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About Bidtellect – Native Intelligence: Bidtellect is the leading buy side Native platform built for marketers.
Cory LaMay
VP, Supply Operations and Programmatic Integration of Bidtellect – Native Intelligence
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About Bidtellect – Native Intelligence: Bidtellect is the leading buy side Native platform built for marketers.
Stacey Halota
VP, Information Security & Privacy of Washington Post
Stacey Halota joined The Washington Post Company in 2003. She leads the development and implementation of information security and privacy programs, including Sarbanes Oxley, privacy law, Payment Card Industry compliance and other data protection efforts. Halota has more than 20 years of experience in the information technology, security and privacy field. Before joining The Washington Post Company she served as the federal government and southeast region leader of Guardent (now part of Verisign), a security and privacy consulting and managed security services company. Prior to Guardent, she worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers in the Technology Risk Services consulting practice. Halota was named Secure Computing Magazine’s 2009 Chief Security Officer of the Year, and was also named 2009 Mid-Atlantic Information Security Executive of the Year (Commercial Category) by the Executive Alliance. She is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP) and a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).
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About Graham Holdings, Washington Post: Washington Post is an American newspaper and website that features news insights on various topics.
Jason Tollestrup
Vice President, Programmatic Strategy and Yield of Washington Post
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About Washington Post: Washington Post is an American newspaper and website that features news insights on various topics.
Anthony Lyddane
VP, Tax of Washington Post
Anthony Lyddane, vice president-tax, joined The Washington Post Company in 1989 and previously served as manager and director of tax. Lyddane began his career with Price Waterhouse in 1981 after receiving his MBA from the University of Michigan and BS in accounting from the University of Maryland. He is a certified public accountant, a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Tax Executives Institute.
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About Graham Holdings, Washington Post: Washington Post is an American newspaper and website that features news insights on various topics.
Jocelyn E. Henderson
VP, Corporate Audit Services of Washington Post
Jocelyn Henderson VP, Corporate Audit Services at Graham Holdings Company.
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About Graham Holdings, Washington Post: Washington Post is an American newspaper and website that features news insights on various topics.
Michael Smith
SVP Revenue Platforms & Operations of Hearst Digital Media
Michael Smith is Senior Vice President of Revenue Platforms and Operations, Hearst Magazines Digital Media. 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 Audience 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 the author of books, TARGETED: How Technology Is Revolutionizing Advertising And The Way Companies Reach Consumers (AMACOM / 2014) and The Native Advertising Advantage: Build Authentic Content that Revolutionizes Digital Marketing and Drives Revenue Growth (McGraw-Hill Education / 2017). 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 14 years, as well as the chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Education Law Center, a member of the School Consultative Board of Union Catholic High School and a member of The Union League Club.
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About Hearst Digital Media: Hearst Magazines Digital Media oversees the 20+ digital magazine properties including Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, etc.
Kate Lewis
SVP & Editorial Director of Hearst Digital Media
Kate Lewis is the Senior Vice President and Editorial Director at Hearst Digital Media, responsible for managing the digital editorial teams for worldwide brands such as Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar and Good Housekeeping. In the US, these sites attract more than 200 million unique visitors monthly. Prior to Hearst, Lewis worked at Say Media in a similar role, overseeing content strategy and operations for a number of Say’s own sites including xoJane, Remodelista, and ReadWrite, as well as a number of network sites. Originally a print editor, she spent 18 years at Conde Nast working on brands like Vanity Fair, Glamour, and SELF.
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About Hearst Digital Media, Hearst Digital Media: Hearst Magazines Digital Media oversees the 20+ digital magazine properties including Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, etc.
Mary Treseler
VP Strategic Content of O’Reilly
Mary Treseler is Director of Strategic Content at O’Reilly Media, Inc. She acquires, curates, and edits design content, when not writing about it herself. Her experience with design-related topics includes editing “Lean UX” and “Designing Interfaces” as well as launching “The Lean Series” with Eric Ries. Mary has more than 20 years of experience working in technology publishing; her introduction to the design discipline began in 1993 with Jakob Nielsen’s “Usability Engineering.” A Boston native, Mary lives by the ocean in South Dartmouth, MA.
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About O’Reilly: O’Reilly provides technology and business training, knowledge, and insight to help companies succeed.
Daniel Jacobson
VP of Engineering of The New York Times
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About Child Trends, The New York Times: The New York Times creates, collects, and distributes news, information, and entertainment through a daily newspaper and a website.
Alex MacCallum
Assistant Editor and SVP, Video of The New York Times
When New York Times editor Dean Baquet announced the appointment of digital media veteran Alex MacCallum as senior vice president of video, he noted that video journalism on the Web is an entirely new medium, distinct even from television. The key editorial and commercial appointment followed a much-discussed innovation report that showed The Times lagging behind some of its digital competitors in social engagement. MacCallum took charge of the video unit in January; she joined The Times in March 2013 as senior manager of business development, and in 2014, she headed an audience development team. Before The Times, MacCallum worked for Lerer Ventures as a strategy consultant in business development and operations; previously, she was a corporate counsel to The Huffington Post, where she was also a founding news editor.
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About The New York Times: The New York Times creates, collects, and distributes news, information, and entertainment through a daily newspaper and a website.
Dan Olley
EVP & CTO – Elsevier of Elsevier
Dan Olley is the Non Executive Director at Hargreaves Lansdown.
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About Elsevier, Hargreaves Lansdown: Elsevier is a world-leading provider of information solutions that enhance the performance of science, health, and technology.
Paul Crockett
Vice President, Product and Innovation of Elsevier
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About Authess, Elsevier: Elsevier is a world-leading provider of information solutions that enhance the performance of science, health, and technology.
Alan Karpovsky
Vice President of Omni-channel Solutions of Innovid
Alan is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Herolens, a MarTech platform that enables big brands and agencies to take their marketing and online communication strategies to the next level by the use of technology, engineering and algorithms. Herolens is nowadays working with some of the largest advertisers in LATAM and US. Herolens has been acquired by Innovid in late 2019. Alan is currently a Board Member at EO (Entrepreneurs’ Organization), a global non-profit organization with +12.000 active members, whose stated mission is to “Engage leading entrepreneurs to learn and grow”. He has been named one of the “30 Forbes Most Promising Entrepreneurs” in 2019 by Forbes Magazine for his significant impact on the industry of his ideas, innovations and disruptive way of doing business. Alan has been an active speaker in events like IAB Now, WebCongress and A4 Latam sharing his experience on how to grow a technology company in the advertising industry. In late 2017 he has been selected by the US Department of State as one of the most impactful entrepreneurs among more than 4000 young professionals from LATAM under the YLAI program (Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative). During his university days he launched “Club Trama”, a student-run business club dedicated to in-campus education for students on a variety of career paths (entrepreneurship, consulting and finance). The objective of the Club is to enhance knowledge on the specific areas as well as improving networking both between students and with professionals. Today, 6 years later, it’s still alive and growing. Alan has a Master Degree in Computer Science & Software Engineering by the Buenos Aires’ Institute of Technology (ITBA).
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About Innovid: Innovid is the only independent omni-channel advertising and analytics platform built for television.
Nicole Dingley
Vice President Customer Success of John Wiley & Sons
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About John Wiley & Sons: John Wiley & Sons is a provider of content and content-enabled workflow solutions.
Pete Sattler
SVP and Chief Information Officer / CISO / Digital Transformation / M&A / Analytics of John Wiley & Sons
Pete Sattler is the SVP and Chief Information Officer / CISO / Digital Transformation / M&A / Analytics at John Wiley and Sons.
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About John Wiley & Sons: John Wiley & Sons is a provider of content and content-enabled workflow solutions.
Christos P. Badavas
Senior Vice President & General Counsel of Sesac
Christos P. Badavas is Senior Vice President and General Counsel for SESAC. Christos focuses on cutting edge copyright issues affecting SESAC, its subsidiaries and its clients, including digital licensing, global rights administration, legislative and regulatory issues, and other complex legal matters. He was formerly Deputy General Counsel for The Harry Fox Agency, Inc. (HFA), the nation’s leading provider of rights management, licensing and royalty services for the music industry. While HFA was a subsidiary of the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA), Christos provided counsel to the NMPA regarding legislative matters, industry negotiations, litigation and settlements, such as Copyright Royalty Board Proceedings and statutory rate negotiations, and Section 115 reform. Badavas is a highly sought after lecturer, having recently participated in panel discussions at the Association of Independent Music Publishers and the U.S. Copyright Office-WIPO joint international training on “Contemporary Issues in Collective Management for Developing Countries and Countries with Economies in Transition” and the Music Biz Entertainment & Technology Law Conference Series. Badavas reports to SESAC’s Chairman & CEO, John Josephson.
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About Sesac: ESAC Celebrates Songwriters & Publishers at 2014
Scott Jungmichel
CIO & Senior Vice President of Royalty Distribution & Royalty Research Services of Sesac
Scott Jungmichel is SESAC’s Senior Vice President, Royalty Distribution and Royalty Research Services. Jungmichel is responsible for planning, organizing and directing the operations of the Royalty Distribution and Research Services department. Jungmichel also oversees the performance of all department functions including Content Registration and Optimization, Royalty Administration, A/V Client Services and Research & Analysis. Jungmichel is based at SESAC’s Nashville headquarters.
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About Sesac: ESAC Celebrates Songwriters & Publishers at 2014
Sam Kling
Senior Vice President of Creative Operations of Sesac
Sam Kling is SESAC’s Senior Vice President, Creative Operations. Kling is responsible for helping create and execute growth strategies for SESAC’s creative departments, working closely with SESAC’s senior management team. He also manages the creative operations’ day-to-day department objectives. Kling is based in SESAC’s Los Angeles offices. Before his position at SESAC, Kling served as Vice President at peermusic and was in charge of overseeing the independent music company’s Pop A&R as well as Film & TV creative operations. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from the New School University in New York and an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management. Kling is a member of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (NARAS) as well as a board member of the Association of Independent Music Publishers (AIMP) and the Bogart Pediatric Cancer Research Program WmE2 Tennis Classic.
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About Sesac: ESAC Celebrates Songwriters & Publishers at 2014
Cathy Grizzell
Senior Vice President of Human Resources & Administration of Sesac
Cathy Grizzell is Senior Vice President, Human Resources and Administration for SESAC, the nation’s only Music Rights Organization. Grizzell’s responsibilities extend across SESAC’s combined portfolio of businesses, SESAC Performing Rights, the Harry Fox Agency and Rumblefish, and include guiding the overall administration, coordination, evaluation and operation of Human Resources, Benefits Administration and Facilities Management/Operations. Grizzell, a 30+ year SESAC veteran, has played a key role in the strategic initiative to expand SESAC’s operations into the new state-of-the-art facility on Music Row, where she continues to to manage the facilities operations. Grizzell joined SESAC in 1981 in the General Licensing department in New York. She moved into Licensing Administration, Broadcast Licensing and Collections and was instrumental in the computerization of the Licensing and Collection systems which improved licensee retention and income. In 1987 she played a key role in moving General Licensing and Licensing Administration to Nashville and focused on building those departments and continued to computerize and streamline processes. In mid 1990s she transferred to the corporate side of the company, where she focused on employee relations and benefits, ultimately resulting in the development of the Human Resources department. Grizzell was promoted to Vice President, Human Resources in 2006. Grizzell is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), the Middle Tennessee Society of Human Resource Management (MT-SHRM), HR Leadership, the Recording Academy and the Country Music Association (CMA).
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About Sesac: ESAC Celebrates Songwriters & Publishers at 2014
Chad Gordon
VP of Strategy & Business Development of Participant Media
Chad Gordon As a Venture Partner at Sierra Wasatch, Chad sources and helps analyze new investment opportunities in Southern California within the sports, media, and e-commerce industries. With a truly diverse skill set,… Chad, has led Business Development and Special Projects for a private family office in Los Angeles for the past 9yrs. With roles and responsibilities ranging from Co-Founder and COO to Co-Director and Producer, Chad has been at the epicenter in the shifting landscape of entertainment, sports and technology. Most recently, Gordon produced and co-directed the upcoming feature documentary, “The Drew: No Excuse, Just Produce” alongside filmmaker and 2-Time NBA All-Star Baron Davis.
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About Participant Media, Sierra Wasatch Capital: Entertainment that inspires and compels social change.
Anthony G. Ambrosio
Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer and Chief Human Resources Officer of CBS Corporation
Anthony Ambrosio serves as Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer and Chief Human Resources Officer for CBS Corporation. In this role, he manages all Human Resources functions for the company; directs administrative areas, including real estate, facilities management, security and other corporate services; and oversees labor relations functions. Ambrosio joined CBS in March 1985 in Recruitment and Placement, and held increasingly senior Human Resources positions in Compensation, Policy, HRIS and Benefits functions. Prior to the merger of CBS Corporation with Viacom in May 2000, he served as Vice President, Human Resources, CBS Corporation. After the merger, Ambrosio was named Senior Vice President of Human Resources and Administration for CBS, Infinity Broadcasting and Viacom Outdoor.
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About CBS Corporation: CBS Corporation is a mass media company that creates and distributes content across a variety of platforms to audiences around the world.
Donna Osiri
Vice President of Strategic Sourcing of CBS Corporation
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About CBS Corporation: CBS Corporation is a mass media company that creates and distributes content across a variety of platforms to audiences around the world.
Laksh Nathan
Senior VP, Business Delivery Services of CBS Corporation
As the senior vice president of Business Delivery Services at CBS Corporation, Laksh Nathan is responsible for all of the corporation’s Workplace/End User Services, Enterprise Solutions and Data Science/Analytics teams and also supports the IT client relationships across the many divisions that make up CBS Corporation. Over the last 10 years, Laksh has worked across the company to implement common IT enterprise platforms across finance, human resources, legal and business intelligence. In the last year, he led the effort to transform end-user experience across traditional corporate and interactive cultures. By modernizing their IT staff and leveraging collaborative technologies, CBS is achieving their goal to make technology seamless for the end user.
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About CBS Corporation: CBS Corporation is a mass media company that creates and distributes content across a variety of platforms to audiences around the world.
Tom Shilen
Sr. VP, Chief Financial & Administrative Officer of CBS Corporation
Tom Shilen is Sr. VP, Chief Financial & Administrative Officer @ CBS Corporation.
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About CBS Corporation: CBS Corporation is a mass media company that creates and distributes content across a variety of platforms to audiences around the world.
Mika Moser
Senior Vice President of Bank Director
Mika Moser is the Senior Vice President and Director for Bank Director. With a dual background in marketing and technology, she develops and oversees the execution of Bank Director’s integrated marketing strategy across multiple channels including email, web, social, search and mobile. Mika is a member of both Bank Director’s board and management committees. Prior to joining the company, Mika worked as an online marketing strategist for the Nashville-based technology firm, Bytes of Knowledge, establishing client relationships and managing the execution on a variety of website development projects. Her 14 years of professional experience includes data marketing, brand development and project management for companies such as Board Member Inc. and Private Business Inc. Mika is a graduate of the University of Georgia with a bachelor’s degree in Journalism.
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About Bank Director: An information resource for senior executives and directors of financial institutions.
Brian Rifkin
Co-Founder and SVP Strategic Partnerships of JW Player
At JW Player Brian is focused on driving growth through strategic partnerships and leads the JW Player Demand team, working with publishers and brands to maximize advertising revenue. He has worked in the online space since 1997, and until 2007 served as president of A Simple Internet, a media services firm he founded in 2001 specializing in performance-based marketing. Previously, he was senior vice president of Business Development at About.com. He holds a BS in business administration from the University of Pittsburgh.
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About JW Player: JW Player is a video streaming and analytics platform that offers an HTML5 video player for web content, publishing, and running video ads.
Hayley Romer
SVP and Publisher, The Atlantic of Atlantic Media
Hayley is VP and Publisher of The Atlantic. In the role, she oversees the national sales and marketing teams, leading advertising efforts for The Atlantic brand across its print and digital platforms. Prior to joining The Atlantic in May 2012 as Associate Publisher, Hayley spent five years at the Condé Nast Media Group. As Executive Director of Corporate Sales, she managed an integrated team on accounts ranging from Finance to Luxury to Technology across titles such as The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and Wired. Before joining Condé Nast in 2007, Hayley managed the luxury account list at Forbes Media.
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About Atlantic Media: Atlantic Media is dedicated to equipping opinion leaders with breakthrough ideas and original insights.
Tom Shoop
Executive Vice President & Editor in Chief, Government Executive Media Group of Atlantic Media
Tom Shoop is vice president and editor in chief at Government Executive Media Group, where he oversees both print and online editorial operations. He started as associate editor of Government Executive magazine in 1989; launched the company’s flagship website, GovExec.com, in 1996; and was named editor in chief in 2007.
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About Atlantic Media, Nextgov: Atlantic Media is dedicated to equipping opinion leaders with breakthrough ideas and original insights.
Michelle Jaconi
Vice President and Executive Editor of Independent Journal Review
Prior to joining the world of #Yolo, Vines and GIFs, Michelle spent six years at CNN, where she founded CNN’s Cross Platform Programming unit, leading political coverage across CNN’s television networks, digital properties and mobile apps. In that role, Jaconi led editorial partnerships with companies such as Tumblr, Facebook and Twitter. Also in her six years at CNN, Michelle launched and led programs in every television day-part, including State of the Union and Inside Politics. She also worked extensively with CNN.com, launching next generation programming, video franchises and co-writing a daily newsletter during the 2012 presidential campaign. Prior to joining CNN, Michelle spent 12 years at NBC’s Meet the Press with Tim Russert, the longest-running television program in the world. She still considers herself a Russert girl and smiles at every opportunity to reminisce about the beloved newsman from Buffalo. Throughout her career, Michelle has earned multiple awards, including the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Media for producing the Meet the Press senate debate series, a Peabody for her help in producing CNN’s coverage of the Arab Spring, and back-to-back Emmy Awards for presidential election nights, at two different networks, CNN and NBC. Michelle has been described in the press as being “ecstatic” about campaign season and that somehow is an understatement. If you ever are in a room with Michelle, there is a good chance she’ll ask you to weigh in on the political debate of the day, which is why she finds herself at home at IJ. Michelle loves learning from everyday Americans and finds great joy in driving her pick up truck, simply because people tend to smile at a girl in a truck. Click here to view my Vine list on Why I Joined IJReview.
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About Independent Journal Review: The Independent Journal Review, an American news platform, provides its users with informative content such as political and cultural news.
Michelle Jaconi
Vice President and Executive Editor of Independent Journal Review
Prior to joining the world of #Yolo, Vines and GIFs, Michelle spent six years at CNN, where she founded CNN’s Cross Platform Programming unit, leading political coverage across CNN’s television networks, digital properties and mobile apps. In that role, Jaconi led editorial partnerships with companies such as Tumblr, Facebook and Twitter. Also in her six years at CNN, Michelle launched and led programs in every television day-part, including State of the Union and Inside Politics. She also worked extensively with CNN.com, launching next generation programming, video franchises and co-writing a daily newsletter during the 2012 presidential campaign. Prior to joining CNN, Michelle spent 12 years at NBC’s Meet the Press with Tim Russert, the longest-running television program in the world. She still considers herself a Russert girl and smiles at every opportunity to reminisce about the beloved newsman from Buffalo. Throughout her career, Michelle has earned multiple awards, including the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Media for producing the Meet the Press senate debate series, a Peabody for her help in producing CNN’s coverage of the Arab Spring, and back-to-back Emmy Awards for presidential election nights, at two different networks, CNN and NBC. Michelle has been described in the press as being “ecstatic” about campaign season and that somehow is an understatement. If you ever are in a room with Michelle, there is a good chance she’ll ask you to weigh in on the political debate of the day, which is why she finds herself at home at IJ. Michelle loves learning from everyday Americans and finds great joy in driving her pick up truck, simply because people tend to smile at a girl in a truck. Click here to view my Vine list on Why I Joined IJReview.
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About Independent Journal Review: The Independent Journal Review, an American news platform, provides its users with informative content such as political and cultural news.
Scott Butler
VP of Technical Operations of Sovrn
Scott Butler is the VP of Technical Operations at sovrn.
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About Sovrn: Sovrn offers products and services to online publishers that help them understand, operate and grow their businesses.
Mark Ellis
Senior Vice President Corporate Sales of Time Inc.
Mark Ellis serves as Senior Vice President Corporate Sales for Time Inc. His responsibilities include leading integrated, digital and agency sales teams, with the mission of growing revenue by providing multi-brand, cross platform, data driven, holistic and agnostic Time Inc solutions to the largest marketers and advertising agencies in North America. He rejoined Time Inc in September 2014 after a 15-year hiatus, during which time he held a variety of senior level positions. Most recently he was Vice President North American Sales and Global Partnerships at Yahoo, a position Ellis held since March 2011. In that role he led the North American field sales team and focused on building solutions for the top marketers and advertising agencies across North America. Prior to that he was Executive Vice President North American Sales at AOL from February 2004–March 2011, where he managed field sales, mid market sales, account management and the agency development teams. Other prior roles include Senior Vice President Corporate Sales at IMG from 2001-2004 and Senior Vice President Sales at digital sports startup Quokka Sports from 1999-2001. Earlier in his career he held various management positions at Time Inc, including Publisher of Time IncNew Media, Sports Illustrated Custom Publishing Director and Detroit Manager for Sports Illustrated. Ellis earned an undergraduate degree in Marketing from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from the University of Detroit. He is a Detroit native, based in New York City. He is married, the father of 3 children and serves on a variety of advisory boards and industry organizations.
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About Time Inc.: Time Inc. is a media company publishing over 90 magazines, including Time, Sports Illustrated, Travel + Leisure, Food & Wine, and many more.
Tamara Gruzbarg
Senior Vice President, Data, Analytics and Business Information of Time Inc.
Tamara Gruzbarg is a senior analytics and insights executive with 20 years of experience spanning such diverse industries as Finance, Consulting, Ecommerce, Fashion Retail and Media. She is currently leading Data, Analytics and Consumer Insights area within Time Inc, where her team is focused on harvesting a deep understanding of the consumer from both – subscriber and advertising – stand points. Prior to Time Inc Tamara held leadership positions in consumer analytics for Stuart Weitzman and Gilt Groupe. Tamara is passionate about application of analytics across a wide range of business problems, and excited about the opportunities, presented by the Big Data.
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About ActionIQ, Time Inc.: Time Inc. is a media company publishing over 90 magazines, including Time, Sports Illustrated, Travel + Leisure, Food & Wine, and many more.
Regina Buckley
SVP, Digital Business Development and Business Operations, and Brand General Manager, Lifestyle of Time Inc.
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About Time Inc.: Time Inc. is a media company publishing over 90 magazines, including Time, Sports Illustrated, Travel + Leisure, Food & Wine, and many more.
Joe Webster
VP of B2B Marketing and Global Email Strategy of Future
Joe Webster lives in the Washington, D.C. area and runs B2B marketing and audience development at Future. Prior to Future’s acquisition of SmartBrief where he ran marketing, biz dev, and audience, Joe was in charge of U.S. business development at Storyful, the Dublin-based social news start-up. Before joining Storyful, Joe worked at the Associated Press for close to a decade where he led the effort to bring the AP into social media. Joe is a member of the Online News Association, the National Press Club and attended the University of Kansas.
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About Antengo, Future: Future creates high-quality multi-media products which reach their audiences online, on mobile and in print.
Andres Moran
Vice President of Sales // General Manager of Ad Marketplace of Wunderkind (formerly BounceX)
Andres Moran is a co-founder the head of business development at Fundera. Prior to joining the Fundera team, Andres was senior director of publisher sales at Outbrain where he was top revenue producer for nearly two years and greatly expanded the company’s network. Andres also has experience as an entrepreneur, founding Earndit, a company that incentivizes people to exercise through rewards and digital trophies, in 2009. Earndit was recently acquired by Higi, a company that measures and attaches a score to your personal health. He also started Miami’s first medical spa that was eventually sold in 2011. Andres graduated from Columbia Business School and loves to travel.
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About Wunderkind (formerly BounceX): Wunderkind enables the world’s top brands to better recognize their customers online, providing 1-to-1 marketing at scale.
Namik Abdulzade
AVP of Engineering Operations of Wunderkind (formerly BounceX)
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About Wunderkind (formerly BounceX): Wunderkind enables the world’s top brands to better recognize their customers online, providing 1-to-1 marketing at scale.
Jordan Kennedy
VP of Client Partnerships of Wunderkind (formerly BounceX)
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About Botify, Wunderkind (formerly BounceX): Wunderkind enables the world’s top brands to better recognize their customers online, providing 1-to-1 marketing at scale.
Dave Campbell
VP Strategic Accounts of Wunderkind (formerly BounceX)
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About Wunderkind (formerly BounceX): Wunderkind enables the world’s top brands to better recognize their customers online, providing 1-to-1 marketing at scale.
Joe West
VP Engineering of Wunderkind (formerly BounceX)
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About Wunderkind (formerly BounceX): Wunderkind enables the world’s top brands to better recognize their customers online, providing 1-to-1 marketing at scale.
Harmony Faust
Vice President, Marketing and Communications – North America of GALE CENGAGE Learning
Harmony Faust is Vice President, Marketing and Communications – North America at GALE CENGAGE Learning.
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About GALE CENGAGE Learning: Cengage Learning delivers highly customized learning solutions for colleges, universities, professors, students, libraries, government
Matthew Lombardi
Vice President/General Manager of Growth for Sports of The Arena Group
Matthew Lombardi is the Vice President/General Manager of Growth for Sports at Maven.
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About The Arena Group: The Arena Group combines powerful brands, in areas consumers are passionate about and delivers compelling experiences.
Karthic Bala
EVP & Chief Data Officer of Condé Nast
Karthic Bala is currently the Head of Data Strategy at Condé Nast. His team focuses on using data and statistical modeling techniques to create innovative solutions. Has over twenty years of experience in handling technology and large data systems to drive competitive advantage and monetize data.
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About Condé Nast: Condé Nast publishes magazines, websites, and tablet and smartphone applications.
Stephanie Fossan
Sr. Vice President, New Product Strategy of SocialFlow
Sr. Vice President, New Product Strategy at SocialFlow.
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About SocialFlow: SocialFlow is a social distribution and monetization platform that is purpose-built for media companies.
Shannon Smith
VP Sales of SocialFlow
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About SocialFlow: SocialFlow is a social distribution and monetization platform that is purpose-built for media companies.
Craig Pentland
Senior Vice President Client Services of SocialFlow
Senior Vice President – Client Services at SocialFlow.
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About SocialFlow: SocialFlow is a social distribution and monetization platform that is purpose-built for media companies.
