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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based VP’ operating in the Social Media 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.
Allen Blue
Vice President, Product Management of LinkedIn
Allen was formerly Director of Product Design at SocialNet.com, a social networking service covering dating, recreational and professional activities, where he was responsible for product design and implementation of SocialNet’s member-data focused business model. Previously, Allen has worked as a contract web designer and developer for a variety of clients including PayPal, Stanford University, and Microsoft’s Virtual Worlds project.
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About Hope Street Group, LinkedIn: LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows its members to create business connections, search jobs, and find potential clients.
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Igor Perisic
Chief Data Officer and VP Engineering of LinkedIn
Igor Perisic is the Chief Data Officer (CDO) and Vice President (VP) of Engineering at LinkedIn. As CDO, he is responsible for all data policy issues and collaborates with LinkedIn’s product, security, and legal teams to ensure that the company is investing in technology, policies, and controls that will allow LinkedIn to continue to rapidly and safely scale its portfolio of product offerings. In addition, he runs LinkedIn’s Data engineering team which focuses on building infrastructure, search, machine learning and relevance systems. Igor joined the company in 2007.
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About LinkedIn: LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows its members to create business connections, search jobs, and find potential clients.
Mohak Shroff
VP, Engineering of LinkedIn
Mohak Shroff is the vice president of consumer engineering at [LinkedIn](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/linkedin#/entity), a professional networking site that allows its members to create business connections, search for jobs, and find potential clients. In his current position, Shroff leads the engineering teams that develop all of LinkedIn’s member facing, growth, and engagement products and services. Previously, he held various job roles in engineering at LinkedIn. Prior to joining LinkedIn, Shroff served as technical leader at Ariba Supplier Network, where he led various application and infrastructure development efforts across the company’s vertical technology stack. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from The University of Texas at Austin.
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About LinkedIn: LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows its members to create business connections, search jobs, and find potential clients.
Brian Rumao
VP, Chief of Staff to the Executive Chairman of LinkedIn
Brian is Director at Next Play Ventures and VP and Chief of Staff to the Executive Chairman at LinkedIn. For over six years Brian was Chief of Staff to the CEO, Jeff Weiner. Brian worked alongside the LinkedIn executive team to manage strategic initiatives and operational rhythm of the business, launch and scale new cross-functional programs, and develop leadership communications and company narratives. Brian also managed the overall joint integration program following Microsoft’s acquisition of LinkedIn in June 2016. He joined LinkedIn in 2012 on the Business Operations team, advising on growth strategies in B2B marketing and sales. Prior, Brian was a consultant at McKinsey & Company. Brian serves on the board of directors for the Boys & Girls Club of the Peninsula and is a First Mover Fellow of the Aspen Institute.
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About LinkedIn, Next Play Ventures, On Deck, The Aspen Institute: LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows its members to create business connections, search jobs, and find potential clients.
Mike Derezin
VP, Learning Solutions of LinkedIn
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About LinkedIn: LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows its members to create business connections, search jobs, and find potential clients.
Tanya Staples
VP, Learning Content, LinkedIn Learning Solutions of LinkedIn
Tanya Staples is the senior director of content and production at [LinkedIn](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/linkedin#/entity), a professional networking site that allows its members to create business connections, search for jobs, and find potential clients. Previously, she was the senior vice president of content and chief of staff at [lynda.com](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/lynda-com#/entity). With a background in technical writing, Staples has also served as a project manager at [Corel](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/corel#/entity), where she worked with its Corel Painter product line. Staples plays an active role in the figure skating community and has competed in 7 Canadian National Championships for synchronized skating. She has also managed the Fine Line Synchronized Skating Team and serves as a board member for the Gloucester Figure Skating Club. Staples holds bachelor’s degrees in history from the [University of Guelph](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/university-of-guelph-2#/entity) and in education from the [University of Ottawa](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/university-of-ottawa#/entity). She lives in Los Angeles, California, United States.
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About LinkedIn: LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows its members to create business connections, search jobs, and find potential clients.
John Jersin
VP of Product, LinkedIn Talent Solutions of LinkedIn
John is currently the Vice President of Product for LinkedIn, leading Talent Solutions products which drives the majority of LinkedIn’s revenue across a number of product lines and helps people find jobs on LinkedIn. John was previously the CEO and co-founder of Connectifier, acquired by LinkedIn for a nine figure sum. In addition to working on Connectifier He is an advisor and investor in several startups.
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About LinkedIn: LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows its members to create business connections, search jobs, and find potential clients.
Hari Srinivasan
Vice President of Product Management – Linkedin Learning of LinkedIn
Hari Srinivasan is the Vice President of Product Management – Linkedin Learning at LinkedIn.
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About LinkedIn, Signal Labs: LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows its members to create business connections, search jobs, and find potential clients.
Scott Roberts
VP & Head of Business Development of LinkedIn
Scott Roberts is the VP & Head of Business Development at LinkedIn.
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About Airspeed, Curated, Edlyft, Ginger, InnerPlant, Klever, LinkedIn, Object, Playback, Premier Lacrosse League, Theta Lake, Truework, ŌURA: LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows its members to create business connections, search jobs, and find potential clients.
Nick Bartle
Vice President, Marketing of LinkedIn
Nick Bartle is the vice president of marketing at [LinkedIn](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/linkedin#/entity), a professional networking site that allows its members to create business connections, search for jobs, and find potential clients.
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About LinkedIn: LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows its members to create business connections, search jobs, and find potential clients.
James Morgensen
VP Workplace of LinkedIn
James Morgensen is the VP Workplace at LinkedIn.
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About LinkedIn: LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows its members to create business connections, search jobs, and find potential clients.
Kevin Delaney
VP of Learning and Development of LinkedIn
Kevin Delaney is the VP of learning and development at LinkedIn.
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About LinkedIn: LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows its members to create business connections, search jobs, and find potential clients.
Kalinda Raina
Vice President, Head of Global Privacy of LinkedIn
Kalinda Raina is Head of Global Privacy for LinkedIn. She is responsible for leading the Privacy Team at LinkedIn with global responsibility for overseeing compliance with data privacy laws and regulations, establishing privacy standards and policies, regulatory outreach and implementing the company’s compliance framework for privacy. Prior to joining LinkedIn, she led the Americas privacy team at Apple, and was the first Global Head of Privacy at Nintendo. Kalinda holds a Bachelor of Arts in History and Communications, summa cum laude, from UC San Diego and a law degree from Boalt Hall.
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About LinkedIn: LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows its members to create business connections, search jobs, and find potential clients.
Melissa Selcher
Vice President, Brand, Communications and Social Impact of LinkedIn
Melissa Selcher joined LinkedIn as SVP, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer in 2020.
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About LinkedIn, LinkedIn: LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows its members to create business connections, search jobs, and find potential clients.
Brendan Browne
Vice President of Global Talent Acquisition of LinkedIn
Brendan Browne is the VP of global talent acquisition at Linkedin.
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About LinkedIn: LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows its members to create business connections, search jobs, and find potential clients.
Jean-Philippe Maheu
VP, Americas of Twitter
Jean-Philippe (JP) Maheu leads our global Agency Partnership and Brand Strategy teams. He joined Twitter through the acquisition of Bluefin Labs where he was the CEO of the leading SocialTV analytics company. Under JP’s leadership, Bluefin achieved remarkable sales traction with leading brands and strengthened its market leading position. Twitter’s acquisition of Bluefin Labs led AdAge to name JP as one of the eight great digital hires of 2012. Prior to Bluefin Labs, JP served in executive leadership positions at Razorfish, Ogilvy & Mather and Publicis Modem. He spent six years with Razorfish, where he ascended into the role of CEO for the last two years of his tenure, leading the vision, strategy and growth of the company. Following Razorfish, Maheu was the chief digital officer of Ogilvy & Mather, where he was responsible for digital growth and innovation across the company’s operating units. More recently, JP was the Global CEO of Publicis Modem, the digital marketing unit of Publicis Worldwide, which is the largest agency within Publicis Groupe. JP holds a MBA from J.L. Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University and a M.S. in Network & Computer Sciences from Pierre et Marie Curie University in Paris, France. JP lives in NYC with his wife and two teenage children.
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About Twitter: Twitter is a social networking platform that allows its users to send and read micro-blogs of up to 280-characters known as tweets.
Keith Coleman
Vice President Product of Twitter
Keith Coleman is the Founder at Yes.
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About Twitter, Yes: Twitter is a social networking platform that allows its users to send and read micro-blogs of up to 280-characters known as tweets.
Candi Castleberry Singleton
VP, Diversity Partnership Strategy + External Engagement of Twitter
Candi Castleberry Singleton is the Vice President of Intersectionality, Culture, and Diversity (ICD) at Twitter, where she leads the new #GrowTogether strategy focused on ICD internally and on the platform. She is also the founder of the award-winning Dignity & Respect Campaign, which has helped organizations create environments of dignity and respect. Business acumen developed from leading teams in operations and experience in sales and product marketing at Xerox Corporation shapes her approach to partnering with business and community leaders to build sustainable practices for the workplace and community. She has developed successful strategies and initiatives in technology, telecommunications, and healthcare including Sun Microsystems, Motorola, and UPMC. As an experienced diversity and inclusion leader, she created The Bolt-On to Built-In Model™ featured in her chapter of Crossing the Divide: Intergroup Leadership in a World of Difference (Harvard Business School Press). The model has helped her transition companies from compliance-driven processes led by HR to integrated activities that shift the responsibility for achieving an inclusive culture to every employee. Candi has served as adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University. She received an MBA from Pepperdine, a bachelor’s degree from UC Berkeley, and completed the Stanford Executive Human Resources program.
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About Twitter, Twitter: Twitter is a social networking platform that allows its users to send and read micro-blogs of up to 280-characters known as tweets.
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.
Sandy Gould
VP, Talent Acquisition, Development, Diversity & Inclusion of Yahoo
Sandy Gould is the VP, Talent Acquisition, Learning and Diversity & Inclusion at Verizon Media.
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About Verizon Media, Yahoo: Yahoo is a technology and media company that serves users through its portfolio of digital platforms, products, and services.
Jon Prall
VP Production Engineering of Yahoo
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About Yahoo: Yahoo is a technology and media company that serves users through its portfolio of digital platforms, products, and services.
Jeremy King
SVP, Engineering of Pinterest
Jeremy is SVP of Technology at Pinterest where he leads the company’s technical vision and roadmap and the engineering organization responsible for building and scaling a visual discovery engine. Prior to Pinterest, Jeremy was the CTO and SVP at Walmart. During his tenure at Walmart, Jeremy led the e-commerce tech team that powered the technology behind U.S. retail stores and eCommerce for Walmart and Jet. Focused on creating seamless shopping experiences, he oversaw customer, merchant and supply chain technologies across cloud and data platforms. An expert in e-commerce development and building and scaling technical teams and consumer products at the world’s largest retail organization, he was also previously CTO and SVP at Walmart Labs, EVP of Technology at LiveOps and VP of Software Development and Engineering at eBay.
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About Pinterest, Walmart Labs, Webb Investment Network: Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas.
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.
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.
Matt Wilson
Vice President, Politics of Brigade
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About Brigade, Causes: Brigade wants to make civic engagement easy, effective, and enjoyable — and in so doing, restore political power back to the people.
Diarmuid Russell
SVP of Finance & Business Operations of Tubular Labs
Diarmuid Russell is the SVP, Finance & Business Operations at Tubular Labs. He is a former head of international at Glassdoor, a career marketplace that helps people search for jobs and companies recruit suitable individuals. Prior to that, he was the senior vice president and general manager for partner services at the same company. Russell is a skilled digital media executive with more than 10 years of experience in consumer internet businesses in Europe, Australia, and the U.S. Before joining Glassdoor, he served as the vice president and general manager for consumer business at GlobalEnglish. Previously, he was employed at BBC Worldwide, where he advised on the acquisition of[Lonely Planet and subsequently became the commercial director for its digital division. He has also worked at Expedia and Marakon Associates Russell holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of St. Andrews and a master’s degree in business administration from INSEAD. He resides in San Francisco, California, United States.
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About Tubular Labs: Tubular Labs is the global leader in video intelligence for the cross-platform world.
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.
Maria Zhang
VP of Engineering of Instagram
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About IDG Capital, Instagram, Social Starts: Instagram is a free photo-sharing application that enables its users to take photos, apply filters, and share them on social networks.
Jim Squires
VP, Business & Media of Instagram
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About Instagram: Instagram is a free photo-sharing application that enables its users to take photos, apply filters, and share them on social networks.
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.
Jonathan Purnell
VP, Data Science of Spectrum Labs
Previously a Data Scientist for Salesforce DMP, Jon delivered Internet-scale distributed products using innovative machine learning techniques, including Deep Learning and NLP. Before that, he was an Applied Scientist at Bing Ads and a collaborative researcher with BBN Technologies (a division of Raytheon). Sales: sales@getspectrum.io | Blog: getspectrum.io/blog
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About Spectrum Labs: Spectrum Labs helps consumer brands recognize and respond to toxic behaviors happening within their online communities.
Erin Willingham
VP, Platform Engineering of Spectrum Labs
A former Principal Platform Engineer at Salesforce, Erin architected and deployed numerous systems during his tenure. Over the last decade, Erin has focused on building secure, reliable systems, and has spoken at numerous conferences including security and scaling with the goal of helping the tech community build better and safer systems. Sales: sales@getspectrum.io | Blog: getspectrum.io/blog
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About Spectrum Labs: Spectrum Labs helps consumer brands recognize and respond to toxic behaviors happening within their online communities.
Minesh Mehta
VP of Sales of Clarabridge
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About Clarabridge: Clarabridge is a Customer Experience Management platform that provides insight from customers.
Matt Pillar
Senior Vice President, Corporate Development of Jam City
Matt Pillar is an accomplished executive with more than twenty-five years of experience building, advising, and investing in businesses in Asia and the United States. He currently serves as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at leading mobile gaming company Jam City, formerly SGN Games; Founder and Managing Director at Fire Dragon Enterprises, a global strategic advisory firm; and Senior Fellow with the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University, where he teaches a graduate/MBA course on “Doing Business in China/Asia.” In addition to his service on a number of Boards of Directors of consumer-facing media and technology companies over the years, Matt has been a major fundraiser on the Board of Trustees of the Los Angeles Ronald McDonald House. He currently serves on the Board of Overseers of From the Top and on the Board of Directors of the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southern California. Proficient in Mandarin Chinese, Matt graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree with Honors in East Asian Studies from Brown University and received a Master in Business Administration degree with Honors from Harvard University, where case studies and lecture material which he co-authored and published have been taught in both the Harvard Business School executive education program and second-year MBA curriculum. He currently writes about China business and strategy at http://www.climbingthegreatwall.com and on Twitter at https://twitter.com/firedragonllc.
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About Fire Dragon Enterprises, Jam City: Jam City is a mobile entertainment company, connecting the world through technology, creativity, and play.
Robert Zakari
EVP Corporate Development & General Counsel of Jam City
Rob Zakari is EVP of Corporate Development and General Counsel at Jam City, where he helps direct its mergers and acquisitions strategy and advises its executives on critical company priorities. A native of Los Angeles, Rob has held leadership positions at many of its e-commerce companies over the last two decades. Before joining Jam City, he was EVP and General Counsel at e-commerce company The Lucky Group. As founding manager of early-stage venture fund Global Agora, Rob became acting CEO of SUP ATX, guiding its relationships with offshore manufacturers and overseeing its expansion from 2010 to 2012 from a startup to the world’s largest seller of stand-up paddleboards. In 2002, Rob co-founded Zaba Inc. (formerly PeopleData), an online public record search engine that he led as president for seven years until its 2009 acquisition by Intelius. Prior to this, Rob was a VP at early online storage company Xdrive and VP and General Counsel at direct-to-consumer public records reseller US Search before and during its 1999 IPO. A graduate of UCLA and New York Law School, Rob lives in Los Angeles with his family, two Rhodesian Ridgebacks and a BMW motorcycle.
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About Jam City: Jam City is a mobile entertainment company, connecting the world through technology, creativity, and play.
Josh Brooks
Senior Vice President of Brand Strategy and Marketing of Jam City
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About Jam City: Jam City is a mobile entertainment company, connecting the world through technology, creativity, and play.
Jeremy Horn
Vice President of Jam City
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About Jam City: Jam City is a mobile entertainment company, connecting the world through technology, creativity, and play.
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.
Deborah Cardoso
VP, Finance and Team of Airtime
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About Airtime, K2MediaLabs: A live social space where people build communities around shared interests through video, audio, and chat.
Andy Chen
Senior Vice President of Innovation of Match Group
Andy Chen is chief product officer at Glassdoor, responsible for leading strategy, innovation, and execution among the product, design and community teams. Andy joined Glassdoor from Match Group, where he held several leadership roles within product, innovation and business development. Most recently, Andy was SVP of Match Group’s innovation team, +1Labs, where he led a portfolio-wide effort to drive ideas from conception to strategy to development and to market. Prior to his tenure at Match Group, he co-founded travel technology startup, Traxo. Andy holds an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin, where he graduated with honors, and a bachelor’s degree in civil structural engineering from Texas A&M University.
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About Glassdoor, Match Group: Match Group is a division of IAC & online dating portfolio that comprises over forty brands around the world.
Tracey Breeden
VP, Head of Safety and Social Advocacy of Match Group
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About Match Group: Match Group is a division of IAC & online dating portfolio that comprises over forty brands around the world.
Beth Wilson
SVP Product, Match.com, Match Mobile & Chemistry.com of Match Group
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About Match Group: Match Group is a division of IAC & online dating portfolio that comprises over forty brands around the world.
Beth Wilson
SVP Product, Match.com, Match Mobile & Chemistry.com of Match Group
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About Match Group: Match Group is a division of IAC & online dating portfolio that comprises over forty brands around the world.
Abhay Jain
Vice President, Strategy and Business Development of A+E Networks
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About A+E Networks: A+E Networks is truly a global media company with joint ventures and channels all over the world.
Paul Cabana
EVP, Head of Programming, HISTORY Channel of A+E Networks
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About A+E Networks: A+E Networks is truly a global media company with joint ventures and channels all over the world.
David Granville-Smith
Executive Vice President And Chief Financial Officer of A+E Networks
David “Digger” Granville-Smith is the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of A+E Networks. Granville-Smith joined A+E Networks as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in July 2014. In December 2016, he was named to his current position. Granville-Smith leads all key financial functions across A+E Networks, including A&E®, History®, Lifetime®, LMN®, FYI™, H2®, Crime & Investigation Network®, History en Español™, Military HISTORY®, LRW®, A+E Studios™, A&E Indie Films®, A+E Networks International®, A+E Networks Digital® and A+E Networks Consumer Products™. In addition, Granville-Smith oversees the Production, Operations, Engineering and Information Technology departments and is responsible for the Corporate Development, Strategy, Investments and Ventures Group. He provides strategic and operational leadership across all of the divisions of the company, including the Brand Portfolio Group, Ad Sales, Distribution, Digital and International, in order to drive the company’s overall growth and value creation. Granville-Smith serves on the boards of A+E Networks Latin America and VICELAND. Prior to joining A+E Networks, Granville-Smith worked at J.P. Morgan and Bear Stearns, which was acquired by J.P. Morgan, for 23 years. Prior to that, he worked at Smith Barney in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group. At J.P. Morgan, he was a Managing Director and Head of the Media Group in the Investment Banking Division. Throughout his career in banking, Granville-Smith worked on a number of significant strategic and financing transactions for diversified media, cable network, cable distribution and telecommunications companies. Granville-Smith is a trustee of the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York. He also serves on the President’s Advisory Council for the College of Brown University. Granville-Smith received an A.B. degree from Brown University. He resides in Manhattan with his wife and two children.
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About A+E Networks: A+E Networks is truly a global media company with joint ventures and channels all over the world.
Mark Garner
Executive Vice President, Content Licensing and Business Development of A+E Networks
Mark Garne serves as executive vice president of content sales, licensing, and business development at A+E Networks.
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About A+E Networks: A+E Networks is truly a global media company with joint ventures and channels all over the world.
Ross Habif
Vice President, Corporate Development & Strategy of A+E Networks
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About A+E Networks: A+E Networks is truly a global media company with joint ventures and channels all over the world.
Amy Baker
Executive Vice President of A+E Networks
Amy Baker and her team are responsible for harnessing the power, influence and audience of A+E Networks’ brands, platforms and talent to help marketers drive awareness, sales, brand loyalty, customer acquisition and retention. Prior to this position, Baker was EVP, Ad Sales for Lifetime, LMN and fyi. She first joined A+E Networks as SVP, Ad Sales for HISTORY in 2005. Prior to A+E Networks, Baker was SVP of Discovery Solutions and Branded Entertainment at Discovery Communications where she provided advertising clients with comprehensive solutions to reach their business objectives across Discovery’s family of assets. Amy holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland and is based in New York City.
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About A+E Networks: A+E Networks is truly a global media company with joint ventures and channels all over the world.
Kamilah Thomas
VP HR & Global Head of People Development of A+E Networks
Kamilah is a strategic human resources leader for the corporate functions at A+E Networks, where she ensures that a focus on culture and people is imparted on all teams and divisions globally. She has over 20 years of experience leading corporate transformations through global learning and development, diversity, people management and inclusion efforts. Previously, Kamilah served as an HR leader at the Madison Square Garden Company and Sony Music Entertainment.
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About A+E Networks: A+E Networks is truly a global media company with joint ventures and channels all over the world.
Jason DeMarco
Vice President, Programmatic & Audience Solutions of A+E Networks
Jason DeMarco joined A+E Networks in July 2012 to establish a programmatic monetization strategy. During his tenure, A+E Networks has been a market leader in adopting new technology and creating partnerships that bring the best in content, data and systems to market. Jason continues to focus on automation across all platforms and data enabled monetization.
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About A+E Networks: A+E Networks is truly a global media company with joint ventures and channels all over the world.
Zeeshan Zaidi
Senior Vice President & General Manager of Artist Services of Ticketmaster
Zeeshan Zaidi is General Manager of Artist Services at Ticketmaster, a division of Live Nation Entertainment. His group works with artists, managers, agents, promoters and labels to help make tours more successful through leveraging Ticketmaster’s marketing reach, data insights, and commerce opportunities. Before joining Ticketmaster, Zaidi spent several years in the startup world in various capacities. He was CEO/co-founder of Host Committee, Inc., a social media and events startup. He also served as COO and Head of Global of LimeWire, the world’s largest file-sharing network, and COO of Selectable Media (formerly Nabbr), a video advertising network. He previously spent seven years in the recorded music industry at Sony BMG in numerous roles, including VP, Digital for RCA and Sr. Director, Marketing for Arista Records. There, he developed the careers of superstar artists such as Avril Lavigne, OutKast, Usher and Dido.
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About Ticketmaster: Ticketmaster is the world’s largest ticket marketplace and the global market leader in live event ticketing.
Albert Leffler
Co-Founder and VP New Project Development of Ticketmaster
Albert Leffler is the co-founder and VP of new project development at Ticketmaster.
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About Ticketmaster: Ticketmaster is the world’s largest ticket marketplace and the global market leader in live event ticketing.
Chris Smith
Vice President, Data Science of Ticketmaster
Chris is a hands on technical manager with extensive experience working on highly scalable systems and big data.
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About Ticketmaster: Ticketmaster is the world’s largest ticket marketplace and the global market leader in live event ticketing.
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.
Anna Luo
Vice President, Customer Innovation & Marketing of Jivox
Anna Luo is passionate about introducing cutting-edge technologies to enterprise customers – putting them on the path of increased competitiveness and accelerated growth. She has two decades of marketing experience, most of which she has spent driving cross-functional collaboration to scale startups and contributing to successful exits via IPO and acquisition. Anna’s marketing leadership role in infrastructure and business intelligence included Sentilla (now Ericsson), provider of predictive and financial analysis for physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures; Coral8, a startup developing complex event processing platform that leveraged Project STREAM from Stanford University; TIBCO, a leader in event-driven platform and then 200-employee startup that went public in 1999. Her full-time and consulting role in other companies included Vidder (software defined security), Counterpane Internet Security (managed network security, now BT), and CTB/McGraw Hill, where she spearheaded an online ideation and networking program to improve customer experience and retention for a $35-million online assessment product. Anna is an endurance athlete and has competed at the Long Course Triathlon and Aquabike National Championships and various regional races. Between her career and racing, she finds time to mentor young professionals and volunteers at the MIT Club of Northern California and MIT Global Entrepreneurship Network. Anna holds a Master of Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California at Berkeley.
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About Jivox, Vidder: Jivox offers a cloud-based, data-driven omnichannel platform that personalizes digital advertising and marketing experiences at scale.
Evan Blair
Co-Founder & Global Vice President of ZeroFOX
Evan Blair is a Co-Founder and the Chief Operating Officer at ZeroFOX. Prior to that, Evan was a member of the Accuvant Leadership Team where he led the multi-million dollar Partner Solutions practice. At the time of his departure, Accuvant was the 2nd largest privately held cyber security solutions provider, had recognized over $1 billion in revenue since inception, and had capabilities with over 175 global partners. In 2008, Evan joined Foster at Baltimore-based cyber start-up Ciphent, where he was responsible for executing the marketing and sales strategy for the organization. Charged with the ultimate goals of increasing sales, profitability, and revenue, Evan’s department supported the company’s three-year revenue growth rate of nearly 1000%. Previously, Evan held financial and business development roles at Application Security Inc. He began his career as a financial analyst with Dresdner Kleinwort in Manhattan, NY and holds a BA in Economics from Wake Forest University.
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About ZeroFOX: ZeroFOX, The Social Media Security Company, enables organizations to identify, manage and mitigate social media based cyber threats
Justin Garrity
VP Display & Commerce of Sprinklr
Justin Garrity is a software executive and entrepreneur. He has a passion for creating innovative products that enable brands to create engaging experiences leveraging design and data. Justin is the SVP of Product and Marketing for TigerLogic and runs their Postano product line. He was Chief Creative Officer of Storycode, a mobile app platform for publishers & brands and Director of User Experience for Webtrends, a pioneer in web analytics, focusing on innovations in data visualization.
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About postano.com, Sprinklr, Sprinklr: Sprinklr provides enterprise software for customer experience management.
George Thangadurai
Senior Vice President & Head of International Business of Borqs Technologies
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About Borqs Technologies, HEAL Software: Borqs Technologies is a high-tech company providing intelligent terminal software and end-to-end service platforms.
Anthony Chen
CFO and Executive Vice President of Borqs Technologies
Anthony K. Chan, is our CFO and Executive Vice President, Corporate Finance and has joined our company since April 2015. Mr. Chan has over 30 years of experience in U.S. and China cross border investments and business operations. From July 2013 until March 2015, Mr. Chan served as the President of Asia Sourcing for Portables Unlimited in New York, a distributor of T-Mobile USA. From March 2009 until July 2013, he served as the CFO for Tianjin Tong Guang Digital Broadcasting Co. Ltd, a mobile communications products company. For the 20 years prior to that, he was involved in multiple investment and technology transfer projects between China, the U.S and Europe, in the areas of communication products, chemical fibers, textile machinery and medical equipment. Mr. Chan received both his bachelor’s and MBA degrees from the University of California at Berkeley.
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About Borqs Technologies: Borqs Technologies is a high-tech company providing intelligent terminal software and end-to-end service platforms.
Josh Backer
Co Founder – President, Advertising & SVP Operations of Unified
Founded Social Suitcase in 2009 – Boutique business development and sales consulting firm specializing in social media monetization products and brand advertising. – Sold to TrafficMarketplace in March 2010 Founded DankApps in 2008 – Bay Partners funded social network application company – Donated thousands of dollars to cause based charities through the “Social Change” brand of applications Founded Teach the People in 2007 – TechCrunch40 company – fbFund grantee Emory University, Atlanta GA – Graduate Instructor, Dept. of Comparative Literature “Sick Lit.: Literature and Discourses of Illness and Disease” The Padeia School, Atlanta GA – Part-time Faculty “Pollack to Smithson: Modern and Contemporary American and European art from 1935-1975” “Art and Politics in the 20th Century”
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About Unified: Unified equips marketers with information and intelligence they need to make the best decisions about their social advertising investments.
Jesse Channon
SVP, Revenue of Unified
Jesse has successfully built departments and functions across Sales, Business Development, Account management and Technical Solutions in start ups in the Social Media space. Jesse began his career in Social at Vocus, then moving on to companies like PageLever and UNIFIED. Jesse was also the co founder at Monkey Say Media, as small Social Media consulting firm.
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About Unified, Unified: Unified equips marketers with information and intelligence they need to make the best decisions about their social advertising investments.
Chris Cahill
EVP, Finance of Unified
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About Unified: Unified equips marketers with information and intelligence they need to make the best decisions about their social advertising investments.
Chris Le Breton
SVP, Strategic Initiatives of Jobvite
Chris Le Breton is SVP of Strategic Initiatives at Jobvite. He studied at University College London and after graduation worked at Deutsche Bank. He was Co-founder & CEO of RolePoint, a Talent Acquisition platform founded in the Bay Area, focused on Internal Mobility and Employee Referral solutions, prior to its acquisition by Jobvite.
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About Jobvite, RolePoint: Jobvite provides end-to-end talent acquisition software and services that increase recruiting quality, speed, and cost-effectiveness.
Jared Adams
SVP, Product Engineering of Jobvite
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About Jobvite: Jobvite provides end-to-end talent acquisition software and services that increase recruiting quality, speed, and cost-effectiveness.
Kelly Lavin
SVP, Talent of Jobvite
Kelly leads talent at Jobvite. She has over 20 years of experience in the HR space and has excelled at helping companies hire and retain great people through creative and impactful talent practices. Prior to leading talent at Jobvite, Kelly was on the launch team at Canvas, the first enterprise-grade text-based interviewing platform that enables recruiters to screen more job candidates and market employment brands. At Canvas, Kelly led Customer Success and Talent. Kelly also spent five years with Apparatus as head of talent. With Apparatus, Kelly formulated the company’s talent strategy. Kelly helped with the sale of Apparatus to Virtusa for $34.2 million and subsequently played a global role overseeing Virtusa’s employee L&D function for the Americas and Europe. Prior to Apparatus, she worked with Emmis Communications for four years. Kelly also co-founded Next Gen Talent – A 2-year program designed to equip early career HR leaders with the business acumen necessary to drive change and lead through the challenges that our businesses face.
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About Jobvite: Jobvite provides end-to-end talent acquisition software and services that increase recruiting quality, speed, and cost-effectiveness.
Shun Chen
Vice President, Products of Conviva
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About Conviva: Conviva is the continuous measurement and engagement platform for streaming media.
Nick Cicero
Vice President Strategy of Conviva
Nick is the founder of Delmondo, a creative studio and social video analytics software acquired by Conviva in 2018. He is a leader in building digital content initiatives with a proven ability to set vision, strategy, and execute on numerous innovative projects for some of the world’s largest brands and publishers like MTV, NBC Sports, Red Bull, L’Oreal, the UFC, Universal, Conde Nast, and Clear Channel. Prior to founding Delmondo he spent time building and implementing new enterprise social publishing and analytics tools with Livefyre, Expion and Percolate. He put the first Instagram Video on TV for Oprah and built an innovative social content experience for the PlayStation launch in North America, among other projects. Nick received his Master’s from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.
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About Conviva: Conviva is the continuous measurement and engagement platform for streaming media.
Wesley MacLaggan
SVP, Marketing of Marin Software
Wesley MacLaggan has been working with Marin Software since 2008. He is currently Head of Marketing at Marin Software. Previously he lead the Product team where he was responsible for driving Marin’s roadmap and working closely with engineering to deliver innovative advertising solutions to the market. He has over a decade’s experience developing and delivering analytical enterprise SaaS applications, including four years with Applied Predictive Technologies working on their platform to help retailers maximize the return on their promotional spending. Mr. MacLaggan began his career providing strategic guidance to companies in a range of industries with Mercer Management Consulting. He holds an Economics degree from Dartmouth College.
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About Marin Software: Marin Software Incorporated (NYSE:MRIN) provides a leading cross-channel performance advertising platform used by advertisers and agencies.
Kristin Gusanders
EVP, Client Services of Legacy Marketing Partners
Kristin Gusanders is a EVP, Client Services at Legacy Marketing Partners.
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About Legacy Marketing Partners: Legacy Marketing Partners is an independent brand experience agency that offers its customers with event marketing and digital campaigns.
Mark Driggs
EVP, Business Operations of Legacy Marketing Partners
Mark Driggs is a EVP, Business Operations at Legacy Marketing Partners.
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About Legacy Marketing Partners: Legacy Marketing Partners is an independent brand experience agency that offers its customers with event marketing and digital campaigns.
Shari Moehlenkamp
Vice President, Finance of Legacy Marketing Partners
Shari Moehlenkamp is a Vice President, Finance at Legacy Marketing Partners.
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About Legacy Marketing Partners: Legacy Marketing Partners is an independent brand experience agency that offers its customers with event marketing and digital campaigns.
Kim Georgeff
Vice President Client Services of Legacy Marketing Partners
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About Legacy Marketing Partners: Legacy Marketing Partners is an independent brand experience agency that offers its customers with event marketing and digital campaigns.
Andrew Higgins
Vice President, Marketing & GM of EMEA at Pixlee
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About Pixlee: Pixlee is a user-generated content marketing platform that helps brands to market and sell by using real customer photos and videos.
Price Glomski
Executive Vice President of PMG
Price Glomski is an Executive Vice President at PMG, a leading digital agency in Fort Worth, TX. His responsibilities include overseeing technology and client integration, new business development, and strategic management of the agency’s social media offering. An industry veteran with 13+ years of experience, Price joined after a long and distinguished career at Range Online Media/iProspect. While at iProspect, Price led the agency’s DFW presence to winning acclaim in Ad Age’s Best Places to Work survey (thrice), the Dallas Morning News’ “Top 10 Companies to Work for in DFW” (twice), and Texas Monthly’s “Best Places to Work in Texas.” At PMG, his core areas of focus include product development, social media innovation and strategy, local strategy, and overall development and ideation. Price is recognized among brands and partners as having an unparalleled grasp of how technology can drive marketing. A graduate of Texas Christian University, Price also serves on the committee of the University of North Texas’ Professional Leadership Program.
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About PMG: PMG is a digital agency that uses strategy, creative, media, and insights to deliver against its mantra of Digital Made for Humans™.
Dustin Engel
VP, Corporate Strategy & Development of PMG
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About PMG: PMG is a digital agency that uses strategy, creative, media, and insights to deliver against its mantra of Digital Made for Humans™.
Catherine Lowell
Vice President of Content of IVY
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About IVY: IVY is a Social University that provides a lifetime of new experiences, friendships, and inspiration.
Tammy Garves
SVP Content Relevance of Appen
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About Appen: Appen offers a wide variety of services to technology companies seeking to compete and expand in the global marketplace.
Rich Labarca
Vice President of Product of AddThis
Rich LaBarca GM Dynamics 365 Customer Insights at Microsoft.
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About AddThis: AddThis provides social engagement tools, APIs and services personalizing websites for engagement, monetization and traffic boosting.
Jacob Edelstein
VP Engineering of Curalate
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About Curalate: Curalate optimizes digital commerce for discovery.
Jacob Edelstein
VP Engineering of Curalate
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About Curalate: Curalate optimizes digital commerce for discovery.
Maria Sipka
Co-Founder, VP Brand Strategy and Chief Evangelist of Linqia
Maria is the Co-Founder, EVP Brand Strategy at Linqia. Home of the first performance-based influencer marketing platform with fully managed services, Linqia merges science and storytelling to optimize creator content at scale. Prior to Linqia, Maria was part of the founding team and COO at XING, Europe’s leading business network, where she led XING’s communities and premium group offerings, exiting shortly after its IPO. Maria also founded the content marketing agency Cherry Communications at age 18 and grew the agency to be one of the most respected consultancies in Australia. Additionally, Maria has been recognized as one of the leading women in technology by Forbes.
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About Linqia: Linqia is the only influencer marketing company that delivers guaranteed influencer ROI for the enterprise.
Mohammed Pedhiwala
VP of Engineering of Linqia
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About Linqia: Linqia is the only influencer marketing company that delivers guaranteed influencer ROI for the enterprise.
Keith Bendes
Vice President, Strategy & Growth of Linqia
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About Forbes Communications Council, Linqia: Linqia is the only influencer marketing company that delivers guaranteed influencer ROI for the enterprise.
Tawn Albright
EVP, Corporate Development of Leaf Group
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About Leaf Group: Leaf Group is a diversified Internet company that builds platforms across its media and marketplace properties.
Adam Reynolds
Vice President of Digital Media Management
As Vice President of Digital Media Management, Adam Reynolds’ orchestrates many of the agency’s marquee entertainment social media campaigns. Having motivated millions of fans towards record-breaking box office results, Reynolds is a veteran social and digital expert who has launched release efforts for “The Hunger Games” franchise, “The Hobbit,” “ARGO,” “The Conjuring,” “Magic Mike XXL,” “Obvious Child,” “The Expendables,” “The Hangover III” and “Godzilla.” Adam also created the first ever Facebook press junket, bringing talent, studio and a social platform together for a first of its kind, industry-changing promotional experience. With Lionsgate, Warner Brothers, Paramount, A24 and IFC as trusted clients, Reynolds’ team of experienced social media specialists regularly craft innovative digital marketing campaigns that engage consumers and drives brand recognition.
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About Digital Media Management: Digital Media Management helps Hollywood’s biggest brands navigate social media channels, activate fan bases and secure brand partnerships
Zack Sugarman
SVP, Properties of Wasserman Media Group
Zack Sugarman currently serves as the Senior Vice President of Properties at Wasserman. Sugarman has ten years of Strategic Digital Marketing and Social Media experience creating award winning campaigns and initiatives for athletes, teams, leagues, properties, brands and technology companies alike while working at Wasserman. Sugarman runs lead on strategy, execution .
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About Wasserman Media Group, Wasserman Media Group: Wasserman media group provides marketing services to talent.
Shelley Pisarra
SVP, Research & Insights of Wasserman Media Group
Shelley Pisarra leads Wasserman’s Research & Insights team and is a 20+ year brand and innovation marketing veteran. Having built and led teams at PepsiCo, Nestle, Novartis and Unilever, she is a thought leader who specializes in developing behavioral-driven brand strategies that identify and fuel white space growth opportunities. As such, she has extensive expertise in harnessing data and consumer understanding to build new capabilities that advance business partnerships, create first-mover advantage, and exceed sales objectives.
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About Wasserman Media Group, Wasserman Media Group: Wasserman media group provides marketing services to talent.
Tom Windish
EVP, Head of Business Development and A&R of Wasserman Media Group
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About Wasserman Media Group: Wasserman media group provides marketing services to talent.
Matt McDonagh
VP, Commercial Partnerships of Sofar Sounds
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About Sofar Sounds: Sofar Sounds is a global community hosting curated, secret performances in more than 400 cities around the world.
Paul Kahn
Vice President of North America of Upfluence
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About Upfluence: Upfluence is a smarter influencer marketing platform that helps brands and agencies scaling influencer marketing worldwide.
