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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 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.
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.
Chelsea Cain Maclin
VP of Marketing of Bumble
In her role, Chelsea leads Bumble’s global marketing strategies and initiatives, focusing on international campaigns, brand marketing, experiential marketing, and integrated partnerships. Her growing team works cross-functionally to test, develop and implement innovative marketing strategies for the brand across the globe. She helped the company launch its newest vertical, Bumble Bizz. Chelsea has spent her career helping technology-based B2C and B2B businesses grow. She’s passionate about driving exponential yet sustainable, high-quality growth, and believes marketing is a vehicle to build impactful relationships with customers, create digital and physical communities, and ultimately solve societal problems. Chelsea has a passion for women’s equality and supporting women-led businesses, both personally and professionally. Chelsea began her career at rewardStyle, a startup technology company that provides monetization tools and marketing consulting to premier B2C digital publishers and influencers. She led the Publisher Development team, maintaining responsibility for company P&L, and managing a team of consultants serving 8,000 clients like Vogue, InStyle, influential individuals and celebrities. These publishers were primarily female business owners, and Chelsea’s team helped teach them how to utilize technology to market, analyze, and optimize their businesses to build revenue, which resulted in consecutive years of +100% YoY growth in rewardStyle’s revenue. She later moved into private consulting for startup technology companies, advising on marketing and business development with founders and executive team members.
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About Bumble: Bumble is an app that brings dating, friend-finding, and career-building into a single social networking platform.
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.
Stephen Heisserer
VP Product of MicroAcquire
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About MicroAcquire: MicroAcquire is a startup acquisition marketplace that helps startups find buyers and get acquired.
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.
Matt Kamen
SVP Engineering of Foursquare
As vice president of engineering and head of enterprise, monetization, and core technology, Matt oversees some of Foursquare’s most distinctive work, including our revenue-driving engineering products—Pinpoint, Attribution, Place Insights, Native Ads and our Places developer tools—as well as Pilgrim, the venues database, and all of our data science and machine learning teams. Prior to joining Foursquare in 2011, Matt worked in search and web technologies for Goldman Sachs. A musician at heart—he plays the bass—he’s also a luthier. Born and raised in Manhattan and a Harvard graduate, he now lives in Washington Heights with his family.
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About Foursquare: Foursquare is a location technology platform offering business solutions and consumer products through a deep understanding of location.
Robert Joseph
VP, Engineering in Production of Foursquare
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About Foursquare: Foursquare is a location technology platform offering business solutions and consumer products through a deep understanding of location.
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.
Jay Moore
Vice President of Digital Marketing of Triller
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About Triller: Triller is an AI-powered music video app that enables anyone to make professional videos, effortlessly.
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.
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.
Dan Bratone
VP, Head of North American Business Development of The Trade Desk
Dan Bratone is the VP, Head of North American Business Development overseeing the development and management of The Trade Desk’s domestic new business teams, go to market strategies and sales operations. Dan’s career has spanned from entertainment to enterprise software with operational and leadership experience across Sales, Marketing, Partnerships, Product Development and Project Management with the last decade focused on building high performance revenue generation organizations for media focused SAAS platforms. Dan’s a recognized industry expert on digital marketing best practices in channels such as Programmatic media, SEM/SEO, and Social Media. Prior to the Trade Desk, Dan held sales leadership positions as the SVP, Americas at TBG Digital and as the VP of Sales for Efficient Frontier. At EF Dan built and led the sales teams focused on the Eastern Region and LATAM until its acquisition by Adobe Systems in 2011. Dan is a graduate of Syracuse University with an MBA from Fordham University.
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About The Trade Desk: The Trade Desk is an online demand-side platform that provides buying tools for digital media buyers.
Mike Blacker
VP, Enterprise Business Development of The Trade Desk
Mike Blacker is the VP of Strategic Business Development at The Trade Desk, a global demand-side-platform in the $5B real-time bidding industry. In his role, Mike prospects for new strategic clients across various industries and works extensively with existing clients to further embed The Trade Desk platform into their business. Mike is an adtech veteran with a string of start-up including Infoseek, CBS SportsLine, Epylon/Accenture, ExpertCity/Citrix, AudienceScience, Feeva, Quova and Neustar. Mike was one of the first to sell online ads back in 1996 and has spent his entire career working in various roles around digital advertising, adtech and ad platforms. Mike graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara and lives with his family in Ojai, CA.
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About The Trade Desk: The Trade Desk is an online demand-side platform that provides buying tools for digital media buyers.
David Danziger
Vice President, Data Partnerships of The Trade Desk
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About The Trade Desk: The Trade Desk is an online demand-side platform that provides buying tools for digital media buyers.
Ethel Chen
SVP, Venture Capital & Technology Investing of GIC
Ethel Chen is a SVP with the Technology Investment Group at GIC. GIC’s Technology Investment Group (TIG) is a global team with offices in Silicon Valley, China, and India. TIG invests directly in private and public technology companies and also serves as a limited partner in top-tier tech funds. TIG’s mission is to forge long-term financial and strategic relationships with its global partners – examples include Zoom, Datadog, Snowflake, Slack, Amplitude, Peloton, Uber, Spotify, DoorDash, Affirm, Coinbase, Alibaba, Tencent, Meituan, and Bytedance. The team is particularly focused on helping its portfolio companies, entrepreneurs, and fellow asset managers navigate opportunities associated with tech disruption. Established in 1981 to manage Singapore’s foreign reserves, GIC is a long term investor with well over $100 billion in assets in more than 40 countries worldwide. Prior to GIC, Ethel invested in public software companies at EMS Capital, a family office associated with the Safra family. Prior to EMS, Ethel spent nearly 8 years as a venture capital investor with Norwest Venture Partners. Ethel started her career in M&A investment banking at Morgan Stanley and private equity at Clayton, Dubilier & Rice. She holds a MBA from Harvard Business School and degrees in Management Science and Engineering (MS) and Computer Science (BS) from Stanford University.
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About CareCloud, EMS Capital, GIC: GIC is a global long-term investor that manages Singapore’s foreign reserves.
Jeremy Kranz
Senior Vice President & Head of Tech Investing of GIC
Kranz is the global head of technology investing and Senior Vice President at GIC. He manages direct and fund investments across the VC, late stage, growth and buyout stages.
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About GIC, GIC: GIC is a global long-term investor that manages Singapore’s foreign reserves.
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.
Amr Mohamed
VP of Engineering of Aspiration
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About Aspiration, HintBox.ai: Aspiration offers retail banking and investing services that enable customers to spend and save their money in ways that protect the planet.
Matt Lee
VP of Product of Aspiration
Matt Lee is the Vice President of Product at Aspiration. Matthew Lee was the co-founder of Hyperink, a Y Combinator digital publishing startup. Prior to this, he worked at Microsoft for eight years as an engineer and program manager. Born and raised in Southern California, he has a degree in computer science from UCLA.
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About Aspiration: Aspiration offers retail banking and investing services that enable customers to spend and save their money in ways that protect the planet.
Alexandra Horigan
VP Strategic Initiatives of Aspiration
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About Aspiration: Aspiration offers retail banking and investing services that enable customers to spend and save their money in ways that protect the planet.
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.
Shawn Conly
Senior Vice President Marketing of GREE
Shawn Conly is a Vice President, Marketing at GREE.
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About GREE: Gree is a Japanese internet media company that provides mobile social networking, and mobile technology services for its users.
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.
Recep Ozdag
Vice President of IXIA
Vice President and General Manager at Keysight Technologies.
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About IXIA, Keysight Technologies: Ixia provides IP network validation and network visibility solutions for equipment manufacturers, service providers and government agencies.
Chris Williams
Senior Vice President of Human Resources of IXIA
Chris is responsible for global Human Resources at Ixia. As a leader, Chris is known for being a highly collaborative and results-driven executive, striving to align business strategy, culture, and values. Joining in August 2008, Chris brings a diverse background in wireless communications, and Internet media, services, software, and bio-pharmaceuticals to Ixia. His broad functional expertise and management acumen were honed while working for public companies such as Yahoo!, Overture, Kinko’s, Dassault Systeme, and Pinkerton. Chris holds a Masters in Human Resources and undergraduate degrees in Management and Finance from the University of Utah.
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About IXIA: Ixia provides IP network validation and network visibility solutions for equipment manufacturers, service providers and government agencies.
Walker Colston
SVP, Support of IXIA
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About IXIA: Ixia provides IP network validation and network visibility solutions for equipment manufacturers, service providers and government agencies.
Kim Crain
SVP, Human Resources of CafeMom
I oversee the Human Resources and Administration functions for CafeMom and MamásLatinas. Prior to joining CafeMom in 2008, I was a senior consultant with RealHR Solutions providing management-level HR support to businesses and not-for-profits in New York City. I’ve held senior HR positions at Medical and Health Research Association and Full Moon Interactive and started my career at ADP.
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About CafeMom: CafeMom is social networking site targeted at mothers and mothers-to-be offering a host of contents from pregnancy, relationships and more.
Steven Samuels
EVP, SVP, Finance & Administration of CafeMom
I oversee the company’s overall finance and administrative efforts, including accounting, human resources, financial planning, investor relations, and legal. I’ve worked at CafeMom and ClubMom since 2000. Before that, I worked at Deutsche Bank. McGill University in Canada, MBA with an emphasis in Finance and a BSc in Microbiology and Immunology
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About CafeMom: CafeMom is social networking site targeted at mothers and mothers-to-be offering a host of contents from pregnancy, relationships 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.
James Turnbull
VP of Engineering of Glitch
James is an experienced engineering leader who has previously worked at Microsoft, Kickstarter, Docker, Venmo, and Puppet. He was one of the founders of the non-profit educational platform Empatico. He is also the author of a number of technical books and chair of the Velocity conference series.
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About Glitch: Glitch is the friendly community where everyone builds the web.
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.
Michael Johnson
Regional Vice President, Large Enterprise Sales of SmartRecruiters
Michael Johnson is responsible for Avature’s business development strategy and execution for the West, managing our Portland, OR and Chicago offices. Prior to joining Avature, from 1997 to 2003, Mike held multiple senior sales management positions with HotJobs.com and Yahoo! and was most recently Western Manager, Strategic Account Sales leading sales teams in Austin, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Chicago. He is an active member of the Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM), the Employment Management Association (EMA), and the International Association for Corporate & Professional Recruitment (IACPR). He has been quoted in Crain’s Chicago Business and the Chicago Tribune and he has served as a panel member of the First Annual Illinois Technology Conference. Michael holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Textual Studies from Syracuse University.
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About SmartRecruiters: SmartRecruiters is an end-to-end recruiting platform that helps companies with talent acquisition.
Sarah Wilson
VP, People of SmartRecruiters
Sarah Wilson is the VP, People at SmartRecruiters.
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About SmartRecruiters: SmartRecruiters is an end-to-end recruiting platform that helps companies with talent acquisition.
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.
Kamala Harris
49th Vice President of the United States of The White House
The first Black and Indian-American woman to represent California in the United States Senate, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris grew up believing in the promise of America and fighting to make sure that promise is fulfilled for all Americans. Harris’ father immigrated to the U.S. from Jamaica to study economics and her mother immigrated from India. Harris’ mother told her growing up, “Don’t sit around and complain about things, do something,” which is what drives Harris every single day. Harris started fighting for working families in the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office, where she focused on prosecuting child sexual assault cases. From there, she became the first Black woman elected as San Francisco’s District Attorney. In this position, she started a program to provide first-time drug offenders second chances with the opportunity to earn a high school degree and find a job. In 2010, Harris became the first Black woman to be elected Attorney General of California, overseeing the country’s second largest Justice Department after the U.S. Department of Justice. In this capacity, she managed a $735 million budget and oversaw more than 4,800 attorneys and other employees. As California Attorney General, Harris fought for families and won a $20 billion settlement for California homeowners against big banks that were unfairly foreclosing on homes. During her time as a U.S. Senator, Harris has introduced and co-sponsored legislation to help the middle class, increase the minimum wage to $15, reform cash bail, and defend the legal rights of refugees and immigrants. Harris has served on the Senate Judiciary Committee, where she has fought to protect Americans’ civil rights, restore independence and integrity to the Justice Department, and scrutinized nominations coming before the Committee. On the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Harris has dealt with the nation’s most sensitive national security and international threats. She also has served on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee where she has overseen the federal government’s response to natural disasters and emergencies, including the Trump administration’s response to COVID-19. Harris graduated from Howard University in Washington, D.C., where she was a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., and earned a law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of Law. Harris has been married to her husband Doug Emhoff for the past six years. She is the stepmother of two children, Cole and Ella, who call her “Momala” and are her “endless source of love and pure joy.”
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About The White House: The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States.
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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