Cristina Alesci is a business and politics correspondent for CNN, covering financial markets, economic policy and campaigns.

Alesci reports on how average Americans, big business and Wall Street are impacted by the Trump administration’s trade and tax policies. Her most recent work tells the story of workers who are coping with large scale layoffs in the Midwest, the stock market turbulence, global growth and the trade war between the US and China. Her background covering the financial industry for over a decade led her to break news that shed light on the inner workings of the administration, including its decision to impose tariffs on China and formation of outside business councils that helped burnish the “CEO White House.”

Alesci has interviewed some of the world’s most influential policymakers, investors and executives, including former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, highlighting his efforts to stave off climate change and exploring his potential presidential ambitions. Other recent interviews for CNN have included Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon.

Alesci has also reported extensively on government ethics. During the 2016 Presidential election, Her stories highlighted the potential conflicts of interest faced by each of President Trump and Secretary Clinton. Since the election, she has reported on the conflicts posed by the family businesses of both the President and his son-in-law, White House senior adviser Jared Kushner. Her stories on the continuing ties between senior members of the administration and their financial interests are featured regularly on The Lead with Jake Tapper, The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and OutFront with Erin Burnett.

She joined CNN from Bloomberg Television, where her coverage of high-profile deals made headlines and moved markets. Cristina was responsible for breaking news on some of the biggest deals of the decade, including Facebook’s initial public offering, the buyout of Neiman Marcus and the fight to take Dell private. While at Bloomberg, she also covered the sports, music and entertainment industries, and contributed to Businessweek and Bloomberg Markets Magazine.

She received an M.A. in Journalism with honors from The City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism, a B.S. in Criminal Justice (magna cum laude) from Pace University, and a post-baccalaureate certificate in business from Columbia University. She serves on the board of Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY and lives in New York City.

Brooke Ambler is Senior Director, Direct to Scale & Commerce Partnerships at NBCUniversal where she leads Business Development and Strategy for content x commerce opportunities across the NBCUniversal portfolio. Brooke’s background in technology startups, specifically e-commerce, has brought a unique expertise to the media conglomerate as NBCUniversal pioneers new endeavors and launches products in commerce innovation. She reports into Brian Norris, SVP, Direct to Scale, NBCUniversal and focuses on go to market strategies, acquisition, growth, and scale across networks.

Before joining NBCUniversal, Brooke served as the Senior Manager of Partnerships in the U.S. for U.K. based fashion search engine, Lyst, after roles in Business Development, Growth, and Partnerships at a handful of e-commerce marketplaces. Brooke began her career in the auction world, pursuing her personal interest in secondary markets for fashion and fine jewelry.

After a recent move to Atlanta with her husband, Alex, and two cats, Lenny and Pickles, Brooke finds herself on a plane most weeks (pre-COVID) back to New York City to see her NBCUniversal team, clients, and friends.

Carolina is the Product Marketing group lead for Snapchat’s camera and developer products. This includes Snap’s augmented reality formats, AR software, developer platforms, visual search features, and other immersive technologies. She was part of the early team that helped Snapchat scale its camera monetization products and is passionate about helping marketers, brands, and partners find success with Snapchat’s industry leading formats. Prior to leading the launch of Snapchat’s camera products, she was a leader on Snap’s measurement team focused on thought leadership and has held similar roles at several leading measurement companies, including Nielsen in their New York and London offices.

TY, a Chicago native, started his career at Seattle’s “Comedy Underground”, and his star keeps rising!!

Dedicated to “BRINGING THE FUNNY”, he’s been called “hilarious” (Whoopi Goldberg”), “a true talent” (Simon Cowell), “naturally funny! (Howie Mandell), “thought provoking” and sometimes, even “edgy”. His ability to appeal to diverse audiences has earned him countless T.V. appearances.

He was one of 2, finalist on the Emmy nominated “LAST COMIC STANDING”. Since then, Ty has gone on to multiple “TONIGHT SHOW” appearances, HBO’s “BAD BOYS OF COMEDY”, “Tosh.O”,
Nickelodeon, his own “COMEDY CENTRAL PRESENTS”, A 2 hour Specials “Issues” and “Grown man, baby steps”. He has also been featured on the sitcoms “Life in Pieces”, “Til Death” and “Samantha Who”, as well as “Brooklyn nine-nine”.

Ty has been called “one to watch” by the Hollywood Reporter. And was most recently featured on “AMERICA’S GOT TALENT”

Jason Baron is Senior Vice president of Direct Marketing and Podcast Sales for WarnerMedia Ad Sales. Within this role, Baron oversees all direct response advertising across WarnerMedia’s portfolio of leading brands, including managing advertising sales for the WarnerMedia Podcast Network. He is based in New York.
Under Baron’s leadership, the company’s direct response division implemented new strategies, including integrating the direct response teams across linear and digital, which resulted in significant revenue growth across all categories. Baron joined the company in 1997 as a CNN account executive and held ascending positions before being promoted to senior vice president in 2011.

Jim Belushi is the founder of Belushi’s Farm cannabis, where his sprawling and spiritual 93 acres along the Rogue River plays home to a range of offerings—from Belushi’s Private Vault and Secret Stash, to Captain Jack’s Gulzar Afghanica, a rare strain from the Hindu Kush region that became known in the ‘70s as “The Smell of SNL.” Having suffered the loss of his brother John to an overdose and his own journey learning and healing through cultivating cannabis, Jim’s an outspoken proponent of the plant’s beneficial properties across a spectrum of uses. From enhancing joy and quality of life, mitigating trauma and managing pain, to a harm reduction approach and rebuttal of the opioid abuse epidemic, Jim advocates for patient rights and adult-use legalization while empowering craft farmers to thrive in economies of scale.

A seasoned Second City and Saturday Night Live alumni, Jim’s starred in a selection of critically acclaimed movies ranging from Trading Places to Wonder Wheel, working with famed directors like Oliver Stone, Roman Polanski, David Lynch and Michael Mann. He’s also served as an executive producer, music composer, director, book author, and Broadway star. His own television show According to Jim aired for 182 episodes during eight seasons with the family favorite launching into off-net syndication. Along with Larry Joe Campbell and other talented Second City alum, Jim Belushi and the Board of Comedy perform improv sketch comedy at colleges, clubs, performing arts centers and venues nationwide. And, together with Dan Aykroyd, Jim tours the globe as Brother Zee of the iconic Blues Brothers. Additionally, Jim headlines his own music group The Sacred Hearts, which is the official house band for the House of Blues brand of venues.

With 42 years in the public eye and Jim’s professional career further inspired by the beauty and healing power of cannabis, Jim’s actively engaged in several projects benefiting the region around Belushi’s Farm. In Medford, Jim is helping reconstruct the historic Holly Theater to bring the 1930s Spanish Colonial movie palace back to life as Southern Oregon’s largest indoor concert venue. In Eagle Point, Jim’s assisting with the reconstruction of The Butte Creek Mill, destroyed in a 2016 electrical fire, to preserve its heritage, build community, and improve the environment. And where Jim looks to have the most profound impact, he’s working vigorously with scientists and the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission and Portland City Council to create an opioid trade program where Veterans, the infirmed, downtrodden and addicted can have a place for healing for low to no cost.

In the words of Dan Aykroyd, “if John had been a pothead, he’d still be alive today.”

Rahil Berani currently runs the programmatic practice for Digitas NA in the NY/ATL Region, primarily handling tech b2b, sports apparel, and consumer health brands. Rahil is responsible for putting together digital strategy for programmatic execution, as well as bringing emerging opportunities for clients. Prior to joining Digitas 2.5 years ago, Rahil worked on the publisher side, working on pricing and inventory, yield, and helping build programmatic practices for publishers such as Viacom Digital, Mashable, and Nucleus Marketing.

Seraj is the Chief Strategy Officer at AcuityAds, a leading journey automation platform for omnichannel digital advertising. Seraj previously co-founded Digitas, a global digital advertising agency and Visible Measures, a third-party digital video measurement company. Over the past 25 years, Seraj has done extensive research on viewership trends across digital platforms and is an authority on consumer trends and insights guiding the future of consumer marketing.

Jenny Brodowsky is a seasoned strategic leader with expertise on go-to-market sales operations in the programmatic and data space. Jenny has expertise in building and launching new offerings, leading data integrations with DSPs, agency holding companies, trading desks and brands to unlock enterprise level partnerships, data access and revenue while developing best in class sales teams.

Leonard has recently been named one of top 30 management thinkers in the world. He has also been called, “a leader of the new world order”. He is an award winning
entrepreneur, venture capitalist, best-selling author and a 2 time Emmy nominated media visionary. Leonard has helped in raising hundreds of millions in capital for startup companies, been through taking a company to a 6 Billion market cap IPO and has been involved in the founding and successful exit of numerous companies to date.

After selling his company in 2009, Leonard became the President of the Innovation and Digital Group for the Anschutz Company, one of the largest live sport and entertainment businesses in the world. The company owns assets such as the O2 Arena in London and Staples Center in LA; sports teams like the Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Galaxy and the Los Angeles Kings, and today, is one of the premiere concert promotion businesses in the world seating hundreds of millions of people a year.

Currently, Leonard is the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Creative Labs, a joint venture with CAA (Creative Artists Agency in LA), the largest sports and entertainment agency in the world, often called “Hollywood’s Secret Society”. Leonard oversees the building of new ventures for some of the most well known celebrities and political leaders in the world.

He is also one of the proud owners of the professional soccer team Coventry City in England.

Currently, Leonard is authoring a new book in partnership with Forbes Magazine, entitled, “The Great Re:Write” based on the successful documentary series Leonard and Forbes produced which has already garnered an audience of over 6 million in the last year.

Leonard holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts from Queens University, a law degree from Osgoode Hall and is a graduate of the Private Equity Program at the Harvard Business School.

Kevin K. Brown, Sleep Number® setting 40, serves as the Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer for Sleep Number. He is responsible for building the Sleep Number brand through telling stories that emotionally connect around the benefits of life-changing sleep. These stories set Sleep Number a part by communicating the company’s product innovations and driving brand advocacy across all customer touchpoints. He oversees the strategy, planning and execution of the overall brand expression, brand experiences, digital engagement, media, customer loyalty programs, and strategic marketing partnerships.

As General Manager of Audience Measurement at Nielsen, Scott Brown is responsible for innovating the company’s measurement products and driving the unification of its linear TV, advanced TV and digital solutions.



Under Scott’s leadership, Nielsen is overhauling its digital measurement methodology enabling the company to create a flexible, independent platform that can quickly adapt to evolving privacy and policy changes. He will also transform Nielsen’s TV measurement to incorporate addressable advertising, CTV and streaming.



Since joining Nielsen in 2009, Scott has held various roles across product management and technology. Previously, Scott served as Chief Technology Officer for Nielsen’s measurement products. In that role, he led the technical implementation of its capabilities across mobile, computer and connected TVs including the migration of its infrastructure to the cloud. That cloud-based platform currently underpins Nielsen’s entire audience measurement product suite today.



Scott attended the University of Florida and earned a B.S. in Finance and M.S. in Information Systems. He was recently named a “Top 40 Under 40” honoree by The Tampa Bay Business Journal.

Audrey Burgess is a Creative Researcher at Facebook, working within Creative Shop and cross-functionally on research related to creative planning and execution. Her research focuses on brand building, branded content (including research on mixed campaigns), and Gaming. Outside of executing research, she works to make data more accessible and understandable by building tools for statistical analysis and research synthesis, and developing educational programs for internal stakeholders.

With an MBA from New York University and a BA in Psychology from Princeton University, Audrey has found enough data at Facebook to satisfy her curiosity about how advertising influences human behavior.

As Google’s Managing Director of Luxury, Branded Apparel & Durables, Michael Burke leads a sales team responsible for driving business growth for  many of the world’s largest, most loved brands and agencies.

In his nearly two decades at Google, he’s enjoyed a front row seat to the future of commerce and marketing. Digital media, consumer privacy, AI, and seamless omnichannel engagement are the hottest trends in retail, and Michael and his team are actively supporting hundreds of brands in their own unique digital transformations.

Leveraging deep consumer insights, they are also delivering world-class digital marketing strategies and solutions to help brands engage and acquire high-value customers.

Michael has built and led high-performing teams across several industries and product areas. Prior to focusing on Brand Manufacturers, Michael managed teams in Retail and Consumer Electronics, and led business development for Google Checkout. During a year-long exit from Google, he also led business development at Clickable, a VC-backed, growth stage start-up acquired by Syncapse.

Michael is a frequent content publisher and industry speaker at events such as the Vogue Business Summit, Digiday Publishing Summit, and Ecom World. His expertise covers topics ranging from the evolving retail landscape and growth of digital goods, to the application of AI in retail and marketing.

Nate Checketts is the Co-Founder & CEO of Rhone, a men’sperformance lifestyle brand
founded in 2014. Prior toRhone, Nate worked for and consulted with some of the biggest technology and entertainment properties in theworld including Cisco, The National Football League, Legends, FanVision and Sport Radar. Nate is also an avidentrepreneur who founded and launched 4 companies before the age of 30, including Rhone and Mangia Technologies, whose patents were later acquired by the San Francisco 49ers. In addition to Rhone, Nate also serves as Chairman of the Board to Beyond Type 1, a non-profit dedicated to the community of those with Type 1 Diabetes. Nate graduated from Brigham Young University with a BA in Finance. He and his wife Dayna reside in
Connecticut with their three young boys, Gabriel, William and Nicholas.

Callie Christensen is the co-CEO and co-Founder of Slumberkins, a Direct-to-Consumer, e-commerce children’s brand on a mission to promote emotional wellness and provide tools to help raise caring, confident, and resilient children. The brand is refreshing the plush toy industry, and resonating with parents that find community on social media platforms and seek out modern, new, and intentional products to bring into their homes. Slumberkins is on the forefront of brand building online as they expand into children’s entertainment by bringing the characters to life in a preschool television series produced by the Jim Henson Company.

On Chicks in the Office, Ria and Fran discuss the biggest stories in pop culture, celebrity relationships and breakups, review TV show recaps, and answer fan submitted questions with special celebrity guest interviews. Just two chicks keeping you informed and up to date on the hard hitting pop culture news you didn’t know you needed.
Recent guests include: Jonas Brothers, Tyra Banks, Jason Derulo, Priyanka Chopra, Alex Rodriguez, Nina Dobrev, French Montana, Bella Thorne, Olivia Culpo, Chris Harrison, Taye Diggs, Scott Eastwood and many more.

Michael Clark is the Head of Multicultural Sales and Business Development at G/O Media. He is a digital native who has held business development and sales management positions with The Root, Entertainment Studios, Univision, Mediaspike, Washington Post Digital, Interactive One/Radio One, and Johnson Publishing Co. Michael has partnered with several key brands such as Ford, HBO, JPMorgan Chase Prudential, Starbucks, Target and Toyota to create ROI-driven, multi-platform solutions. He got his start in advertising in New York as a media planner on the General Motors, House of Seagrams and United States Army accounts at Chisholm-Mingo Group, a leading multicultural advertising agency.
Michael resides in NYC with his wife and son.

Trace Cohen is Co-founder, Head of Strategy of B R A I V E, a company focused on building brand-first, human-centric AI experiences. Since joining Wired Magazine in 1993, in its start-up phase, Trace has been at the forefront of emergent technology from web to mobile to Social Media, and now AI. She led creative for Levi’s® first branded content website in 1995 and was awarded the One Show’s first Interactive Gold Pencil that year, most recently she co-developed an ingredient-centric AI Knowledge Base for the clean beauty industry. Trace’s 30-year career in the marketing industry has remained committed to the digital space: she led Social Media strategy at Razorfish, Digital Strategy at Publicis, Global Digital Marketing for Blackberry, Digital Brand Strategy for Venables Bell, and more. Through a lens of purpose, community and content, she has built breakthrough customer experiences for such brands as Cisco, T-Mobile, Audi and eBay, to name a few.

Gabrielle Etrog Cohen recently rejoined Harry’s to help launch new brands – she’s thrilled to be back with the Harry’s family where she helped to launch Flamingo in 2018. For the last two years, Cohen was the Chief Brand Officer Rent the Runway where she led the brand, creative, marketing and communications teams. Prior to RTR, she was the Senior Vice President of SoulCycle Inc, a role she held from November 2010 to April 2018. Cohen was instrumental in scaling SoulCycle from four to over 85 studios during her eight year tenure. Cohen lives in Atlantic Beach, NY with her family.

Global Martech Director at AB-INBEV, #1 beer company in the world. Passionate about Marketing and Technology and how we can understand consumers better than anyone.

Known as one of the pre-eminent voices in the field of Ad Fraud, Shailin co-founded Method Media Intelligence in 2017. As CEO, Shailin has navigated MMI from its infancy as a research based consultancy to its current position as an industry leading measurement and verified data, product company. MMI offers 100% measurement with over 1 year of data storage, giving advertisers and agencies a full view of current and historical ad performance data at their fingertips. MMI’s patented approach has helped to redefine IVT detection as it seeks to update commonly held beliefs within the industry.

Anne G. Donohoe is a Managing Director at KCSA Strategic Communications. She helped launch the KCSA Cannabis Practice nearly seven years ago and leads the cannabis team in the Los Angeles office. Her voice can be heard on The Green Rush, a three- year old podcast about the business of cannabis, which she not only hosts but co-created and co-produces. In 2019, she was named one of the top 100 Women in Weed by Green Market Report.

Bringing over 12 years of media, marketing strategy, and account management on both the client and agency side, Conor’s experience encompasses both brand development and direct response. This background gives him a unique ability to understand an advertiser’s objectives to develop and execute clear strategies with stair-stepped KPIs which have helped numerous Veritone One clients achieve lasting success. Whether working on behalf of a public company or launching a startup using broadcast media for the first time, Conor’s creative application of data and insights are a key factor to activate audiences and grow the bottom line. Conor’s current role exists to oversee Strategy and Investment for Veritone One to apply never before seen media insights from Veritone’s Cognitive Media Platform to improve decision making and campaign optimization for all Veritone One advertisers.

Katie recently joined Gladly as VP of Marketing to scale marketing in support of rapid company growth. Prior to Gladly Katie led marketing at Outreach, where she helped grow the company from $5M to $50M. Earlier in her career she held Product Marketing leadership roles at Salesforce, MuleSoft, and Guidewire. Katie started her career at Accenture where she implemented SAP Systems for Fortune 500 companies. She is an avid skier, passionate home chef and is dedicated to improving the welfare of animals through her work with the SPCA.

Jack Drillich is the marketing manager dedicated to integrated media partnerships and content activation across various media and talent partners at FanDuel. Jack manages the strategic planning and activation of FanDuel’s podcast media with a goal to drive significant revenue growth, new activations, and build brand equity across all of FanDuel Group’s product lines.

Michael Duda is the co-founder and managing partner of Bullish, an early-stage consumer investment company armed with a marketing Agency based in New York City.

Bullish is unique in that it combines the power of top-flight brand marketing, strategy and creative talent with the fund. Investing at the pre-seed, seed and series A stages, portfolio companies include Harry’s, Peloton, Casper, care\of, function of beauty, Hu Chocolate, Sunday Lawn and Warby Parker. Additionally, the marketing agency works at the highest levels in the industry, successfully building brand identities for emerging DNVB/DTC businesses to creating Super Bowl campaigns or brand launches for the likes of Anheuser-Busch, Pepsi, Nike, Walmart, and other Fortune 500 firms.

Duda has earned recognition from the likes of Business Insider (Top early-stage investor, Silicon Alley Top 100), Crain’s 40 Under 40, Modern Retail’s “DTC Investors to Know” and been featured on the critically acclaimed podcast “Invest Like the Best.”

Prior to Bullish, Duda spent 20 years in the world of Madison Avenue, including 13 at Deutsch Inc. where he became the youngest partner in company history, CEO of Johannes Leonardo and founder of Consigliere Brand Capital (rebranded as Bullish in 2015).

Duda is a graduate of St. John Fisher College (Rochester, NY) and is on the Board of Directors of Syracuse University’s Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics. When not spending time with his wife and three sons in Connecticut, he can be found arguing with referees at a sporting event or offending someone on Twitter.

Nick Dujnic is the Vice President of Marketing for LiveIntent, where he oversees the company’s brand and demand generation strategies. He is also the host of LiveIntentional, a video series that explains what’s going on in a very complicated digital marketing landscape in a fun and accessible way. The recipient of Marketing Edge’s Rising Star award in 2017, he once inspired the headline “How One Man Did the Impossible: Make Ad-Tech Jargon Fun. He has spoken previously at Shoptalk, eTail West, and Advertising Week NY, among others.

Kinney is the Global Head TikTok’s Creative Lab, an in-house creative consultancy. At TikTok, he is focused on building and guiding teams that inspire, educate and unlock the possibilities for marketers to reach their full potential on the platform and connect with its unique creative community. He believes creative work must have an authentic and emotional soul that resonates with the audience to be effective. He’s both won and judged at the industry’s top award shows and was named one of Adweek’s “Creative 100,” a list of inventive talent in marketing, media and tech. But above all, he loves making work for humans, not robots.

With a keen eye for creative details, Shannon is a social media strategist who knows how to engage communities and develop content that converts. For
the past 6 years, she has worked closely with Pookie to launch and grow the Nala family suite of social accounts to over 10 Million Followers across key social channels including Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok. In addition, she has developed creative influencer campaigns and digital ads to help brands
like Google, Facebook, Lyft, Purina, Stainmaster and more achieve their marketing goals.

As Co-founder and Social Media Strategist for Love, Nala, Shannon is focused on brand awareness, community engagement and customer acquisition. In just 6 months, she has grown the Love, Nala social account to over 131,000 social followers – the largest of any pet food brand. In addition,
Shannon interfaces with high profile partners, and social media influencers on marketing campaigns and works closely with select Rescue Partners to
facilitate the company’s social impact program. Since launch, Love Nala has donated over 50,000 bowls of food to cats in need.

Oz Etzioni is CEO and co-founder of Clinch, an AI-powered omnichannel personalization technology platform. Clinch’s platform combines brand, product and consumer data with dynamic creative
messaging to generate unlimited personalized versions of advertisements for programmatic and social media video and display ads.

After spending years leading user experience, design and innovation teams at major agencies, Etzioni founded Clinch to take advantage of the explosive growth in programmatic and address the need to provide data-driven video creative at scale. As CEO, Oz has led advanced omni channel, personalized campaigns. Today, Clinch is the only creative technology company to enable advertisers to use data to personalize videos regardless of platform to deliver the right message to the right customer at the right time.

Most recently, Etzioni helped to form and lead the user experience and innovation department at MRM, part of McCann WorldGroup in NYC, where he created and managed digital experiences and campaign strategy for some of the world’s biggest brands including ExxonMobil, US Army, Diageo, MasterCard, Verizon and GeneralMotors.

Etzioni holds a bachelor’s degree in design from Parsons, The New School, where he graduated with honors. He also studied industrial design at the Elisava School of Design in Barcelona, Spain. Before that, he spent 11 years in the Israeli Air Force holding several command and management roles.

Chana Ginelle Ewing is cultural entrepreneur, marketer, and author working across film, books, retail and tech. Chana is the founder/ceo of GEENIE, a curated beauty marketplace that mirrors your beliefs. She is the author of the bestselling book, An ABC of Equality (with illustration by Paulina Morgan; published by Quarto, 2019), introducing identity and social justice concepts to children. Chana believes that identity is a lever to pull to unlock human potential and entrepreneurship is an opportunity to make dents that move culture forward.

Jen is a master of creative problem solving. She creates and fine-tunes data-forward solutions that deliver success for her clients by focusing on both executional precision and the corresponding strategic impact. From full marketing transformation to measurement systems to bespoke ROI solutions, her ability to approach problems from multiple angles has shaped results-winning strategies for clients across finance, entertainment, retail, home appliances, and much more. An 11-year Digitas veteran, Jen previously held positions at Tribune Interactive and Booz Allen Hamilton. She holds a BS in Engineering from the University of Colorado and an MBA in Marketing Strategy from Georgetown University.

Konrad Feldman is the founder and CEO of Quantcast, a global advertising technology company. Founded in 2006, Quantcast pioneered the use of machine learning to interpret digital audiences and provides solutions for publishers, brands and agencies to understand, plan and activate audience-based media across the open internet. Prior to Quantcast, Konrad co-founded Searchspace, the leading provider of software for detecting money laundering and terrorist financing for the world’s financial services industry. Previously, Konrad was a researcher at University College London while undertaking a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence before launching Searchspace. Feldman holds a BSc in Computer Science from University College London.

After working on Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! campaign, with a mission to improve the health in communities worldwide, Chris quickly realized that change has to come from all sectors. In December 2018, Chris joined Ocean Spray, a farmer owned cooperative, on a mission to unite sectors towards a common goal for healthy people and a healthy planet. As Head of Global Corporate Affairs for the past five months, one of her first initiatives was announcing a commitment to sustainably farming all of its cranberries, making Ocean Spray the first fruit cooperative in North America to verify 100% of its crop as sustainably grown. Chris is also responsible for dedicating all of the product portfolio to the nonprofit sector in a way to help drive impact from that arm of our communities, from PINK on breast cancer research, to a partnership with St. Jude’s.

Will Flaherty is the VP of Growth for Ro, the telehealth company powering the digital health clinics Roman, Rory and Zero as well as Ro Pharmacy — a simple and affordable online pharmacy where over 500 generic medications are each $5 per month. Will leads Ro’s growth marketing team in all acquisition efforts from digital, to TV, to out of home. Before joining Ro, he was the Head of Growth Marketing at Rent the Runway, and spent over five years at SeatGeek focused on brand and offline marketing and data-driven communications.

Since 2019 Carl has served as CEO of Quigley-Simpson, a full-service advertising agency headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in NYC and a stellar list of blue-chip clients.
Under Carl’s leadership, the agency has focused its value proposition around brand and demand which combines brand building initiatives with performance focused intelligence, strategies and creative that drive consumers to action and optimize brand ROI. During his tenure at the agency, Carl has created greater synergy and efficacy by streamlining the agency’s multitude of offerings, advanced the agency’s focus on the health and wellness industry, expanded its DTC capabilities and created an independent media platform focused on brand and demand.

Prior to joining Quigley-Simpson, Carl spent his career in leadership roles at WPP and Digitas/Publicis working across industries in automotive, car rental, financial services, consumer packaged goods, retail, technology, eCommerce, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, and travel. Most recently, he spearheaded the creation of a business alliance between two WPP powerhouses—Wavemaker (Media) and Wunderman (Digital, Data, CRM)—to help brands achieve an integrated approach to communications centered around the consumer journey. While Global Chief Digital Officer—MEC, he led the transformation to more digitally-centric marketing strategies for the firm’s clients. Carl sits on a number of industry advisory boards and is the Chairperson Emeritus of the Ad Club of New York.

Lisa Fulks is Director of Digital Marketing at Ally Financial in Charlotte, NC. In her role, she oversees the digital marketing strategy for Ally’s Banking division, with a focus on data, customer acquisition and brand growth. Prior to Ally, Lisa spent seven years at Prudential Financial, where she was Director of Integrated Media, leading all brand marketing campaigns. She also managed media strategy for Prudential’s Life Insurance and Annuities businesses. Lisa started her career at various ad agencies in New York, including Mediacom and Avenue A | Razorfish, servicing clients in the retail, pharmaceutical and financial services sectors.

Michaela is the Vice President of Performance Marketing Sales at the Walt Disney Company responsible for Linear, Digital, Streaming, and Social revenue across the portfolio inclusive of ABC, ESPN, Hulu, Freeform, FX and National Geographic. Since joining Disney, she has further built out the sales team across all platforms resulting in double-digit growth. Prior to Disney, Michaela spent 8 years at Hulu building out the Performance Marketing team working with new Emerging and Direct to Consumer brands to help fuel their business. Prior to Hulu, Michaela spent 6 years at NBC selling across a variety of networks including USA, Oxygen, and Bravo. Michaela was born and raised in Chicago, IL and holds a bachelor’s degree in Marketing from Fordham University. She currently resides in New York with her husband and their three children, Siena, Luke and William.

Jordan Gladstone is Director of Marketing at Dave. Dave’s mission is to advance America’s collective potential. Jordan grew Dave’s user base from 80,000 to 8+ Million at an industry-leading CAC. She leads the marketing team at Dave to execute on all growth and retention strategies. Her focus is building and scaling growth engines efficiently.

Mike Goodman is the SVP, Revenue at Kidoodle.TV. Mike is responsible for global advertising revenue, operations, and marketing across all demand channels including direct sales, programmatic and indirect partnerships. Prior to Kidoodle.TV, Mike held various positions in the digital video and CTV spaces, including at BrightRoll, Yahoo/Oath, and FreeWheel/Comcast.

As the Global Managing Director of Measurement Products at LiveRamp Christine Grammier leads partners with companies of all types to weave the power of identity into their analytics architecture. Christine is a marketing analytics pioneer through from role making the first online and offline data connections in 2003 when the Internet Advertising Bureau was striving to first prove that internet advertising could drive in-store sales to most recently scaling a cross-screen measurement practice at LiveRamp to support advertisers measuring across all media channels supporting over 500 customers. Her work has been celebrated with an iCOM Data Creativity Award and an ARF David Ogilvy Award for Big Data Excellence.

Shiloh is an award-winning creative with more than a decade of experience building strategic advertising campaigns and unique digital experiences for industry innovators like VMLY&R and Method. He approaches brand-building through a creative lens, and understands the impact that differentiated strategy and visual expression can have on all facets of a business, from brand to marketing to engineering. Previously, Shiloh spearheaded growth for a diverse slate of technology, retail, fashion, and CPG brands . At Winc, he drives the growth of the company’s most culturally relevant brands; a considered balance of rich brand development, innovative experience, and ROI-driven marketing. He is always searching for new avenues for storytelling, consumer engagement, and immersion. Shiloh is a Webby judge and honoree, has received a One Show Merit award, and has had his work featured on Adweek and Communication Arts. BFA in Communications Design from Pratt Institute.

Brad Grealy is the Head of Spotify’s AMP team, responsible for growing advertising revenue across all demand channels and content categories in the US, including music and podcast. Under his leadership, Brad’s team of Client Partners work closely with brands to reach Spotify audiences while they’re enjoying their favorite audio experiences.

Prior to Spotify, Brad held an executive role at Videology as their VP of Strategic Accounts, as well as a variety of roles with video-focused startups in Los Angeles. Brad began his career in public accounting, followed by television production on several Reality and DIY style shows.

Brad graduated from Tulane University in New Orleans and brings a combination of entertainment, finance, tech, and advertising experience to Spotify. Brad recently relocated from Los Angeles to the Northeast for his current role, along with his wife and two boys.

Dr. Russell Handorf works for White Ops as a Principal Threat Intelligence Hacker where he develops technology to detect and deter advanced botnets. He recently worked at the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Cyber Division’s Technical Operations Unit as a computer scientist where he developed and implemented technology that aided in the investigations of criminal and national security matters, served in and helped lead the Cyber Action Team in investigating some of the most critical investigative matters the FBI was pursuing at the time. Prior to the FBI, he worked as a Senior Security Analyst for the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and NASDAQ-OMX-PHLX, and built a company called ClosedNetworks that provided secure wireless communications for municipalities to residential broadband Internet access.

Sandie Hawkins is the Head of US E-Commerce Operations at TikTok where she is focused on turning TikTok into a shopping destination.

Prior to this role, Sandie spent 2.5 years as the General Manager of North American Global Business Solutions at TikTok where she oversaw the strategic business direction of the Global Business Solutions teams across the region. During this time, she built a world class team helping brands and agencies meaningfully grow their business on TikTok. Before TikTok, Sandie held an executive role at Adobe as VP and Head of America’s for Adobe’s Advertising Cloud. Prior to Adobe, she held leadership roles at Varick, Underdog Media and Rocket Fuel.

Sandie graduated with honors from Brown University, where she still holds the school record for the javelin. She resides in Fairfield, CT with her husband, Charlie, 10-year-old daughter, Dylan, and her new puppy, Maverick.

Erin Hennessy is the Executive Director of Insights for The New York Times’s advertising department. She leads a global team within Ad Innovation responsible for exploring new solutions in measurement, unearthing a deep understanding audience and content insights, and keeping a pulse on cultural trends. Her passion for understanding people underpins her ability to strategically connect partner needs with meaningful solutions in data.

Erin has been in the media research field for over a decade servicing fortune 500 accounts helping them to turn data into actionable insight. Since joining The Times in 2016, she has accelerated the growth of the team and the role that data and insights plays in The New York Times’s advertising department.

As Vice President of Cross Platform Insights, Tony Hereau is leveraging the full suite of Nielsen’s services to demonstrate the impact that audio has on media investment, marketing execution and sales outcomes. With over 20 years of experience in the buying and selling of media, he played a key role in launching the PPM service, championed the radio reach story via the Total Audience Report and most recently developed a measurement service for the podcasting industry. Tony’s role as the “Audio Ambassador” gives advertisers and agencies an independent resource for all things audio in an ever-changing media landscape.

Darren Herman joined Bain Capital in October 2016 as an Operating Partner presiding over digital media, advertising, e-commerce and data. He splits his time between the Portfolio Team and Deal Teams where he uses his industry operating experience to source new opportunities for Bain Capital.

Prior to Bain Capital, Herman was on the executive leadership team of Mozilla where he was instrumental in securing and renegotiating the Firefox revenue deals from Google to Yahoo!, Yandex, Baidu, and others totaling over $2B. He ran the content and advertising team at Mozilla and under his leadership, his team concepted, executed and shipped the industries first privacy respecting advertising and content system in under 24 months.

Prior to Mozilla, Herman was a senior executive at MDC Partners’ (Nasdaq: MDCA) largest media agencies and created one of the first trading desks on Madison Avenue and launched one of the first corporate advertising venture funds. Herman was responsible for digital media, analytics, and innovation broadly across MDC and often participated in board meetings and M&A conversations.

Earlier in his career, he was a venture capital backed founder/executive having built multiple technologies in the advertising, content and media space. His investors include NBC Universal, Morgenthaler, Hakuhodo, and Presidio amongst others.

For the past 14 years, Herman also runs Silicon Alley Sports in his spare time bringing executives together outside of Manhattan to network and play sports while raising money for charity.

Sofia Hernandez is the Head of US Business Marketing for TikTok, the leading short-form video platform designed to inspire creativity and bring joy. She’s responsible for building innovative marketing solutions that help brands become TikTok fluent and engage with their communities through powerful and creative storytelling.
Prior to TikTok, Sofia was the Chief Client Officer at consumer insights platform Suzy where she was responsible for driving revenue retention and growth, informing the product roadmap, and ensuring the entire company was rooted in a ‘customer first’ approach. With over 18 years leading some of the most iconic global marketing campaigns for Fortune 500 companies including P&G, J&J, Netflix and Spotify, Sofia’s passion for people and what makes them tick continues to fuel her keen understanding of how to drive successful connections between brands and the people that love them.

An activist at her core, Sofia recognizes her role as part of the 1% of Latina Executives in Tech and is committed to fostering inclusion in the tech industry by incorporating DEI into everything she touches–from a company’s hiring practices to its advertising. Sofia is a passionate advocate for social justice and co-founded a unique apparel line, Black on Black BK, that’s dedicated to spreading messages of equality and empowerment.

Paris Hilton is one of today’s most recognizable figures, known around the world as a businesswoman and entrepreneur. In 2006, she created Paris Hilton Entertainment, a multi-billion-dollar company consisting of 45 branded stores throughout the Middle East and Asia selling handbags and other consumer products. As a DJ, designer, recording artist, host, actress, model and author, Hilton has built a global empire, and continues to expand her brand. Since 2004, Paris has released 27 fragrances, with her perfume collection selling 19 products that have done over $4 Billion in sales in the last decade. In 2011, Variety declared Paris Hilton as a “Billion Dollar Entrepreneur” in recognition of her successful business and global brand.

This year, Hilton was a keynote speaker at the Upfront Summit 2020, and recently spoke about women and entrepreneurship and well-being in the digital era, at the Milken Institute’s Middle East and Africa summit. Hilton can next be seen in the YouTube Originals documentary on her life “This Is Paris.” Lauded as “powerful,” the documentary was viewed over 2 million people globally in the first 48 hours of its release, as audiences respond to the authenticity of the “real” Paris Hilton.

Philanthropy is an important part of Hilton’s life and she regularly makes time for special visits to the Children’s Hospital in LA, as well as various orphanages and hospitals overseas. Over the years, she has been passionately involved with numerous philanthropic organizations, including Starlight Children’s Foundation, American Humane Association, the Nancy Davis Foundation and the Race to Erase MS, and most recently The Sasha Project LA, among others.

Jesse Horwitz is Co-Founder and Co-CEO at Hubble, one of America’s fastest growing direct-to-consumer e-commerce companies. Horwitz and Co-Founder Ben Cogan earned spots on Forbes’ “30 Under 30” list in 2016, and over the past two years have extended Hubble’s footprint around the world. Under Crown Publishing – Penguin Random House, Horwitz wrote and recently published “Selling Naked,” a how-to and guidance book on Direct to Consumer marketing. Horwitz is also Co-Founder at Mockingbird, a baby stroller brand, and BZR, a one-stop shop DTC platform, as well as a board member for Andie Swim, a fashion and apparel company. Horwitz is currently active in advising Resolved CX, a customer service platform for direct-to-consumer companies, AdCouncil, an online campaign to optimize voter registration for the 2020 election, and Humanity Forward, a non-profit dedicated to help raising money for those devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Lung Huang is the Head of Growth Solutions for Mars Petcare, making a better world for pets through the evolution of data, science and technology. He is focused on understanding Mars Petcare’s data assets in order to provide the best customer experience based on data and personalization; reducing operational costs and time through data-driven intelligence.



Before moving to his current role , Lung was the global SVP of business development at Merkle. He led all commercial engagements with data partnerships that supported initiatives in people-based marketing on behalf of Merkle and the Dentsu Aegis Network M1 Platform. Prior to joining Merkle in 2017, Lung was the head of strategic partnerships at 84.51° (A Kroger Company), where he managed business development, industry engagement, and media data strategy. He also played a critical global role for dunnhumby, a customer data science company owned by the retailer Tesco, leading the partnership development and commercialization strategy in media, advertising, payments, and analytics. Lung was formerly the vice president of Arbitron Inc. and had his start at Young & Rubicam’s The Media Edge.



Lung’s career has taken him from retailer to agency to brand, garnering him extensive experience in business development, global data privacy, and GDPR compliance.



He earned his BA in Business from the University of Kansas, where he currently sits on the advisory board for the business school. He lives in New York City with his wife, two children, and new puppy Fritzi

Philip Inghelbrecht is the CEO and Co-Founder of Tatari, a data & analytics company focused on buying and measuring ads across linear and streaming TV. Philip is also known as a co-founder of Shazam, one of the most widely-used music apps in the world.

Prior to Tatari, Philip was also a founding employee and former president of TrueCar (NSDQ:TRUE). In addition, he previously ran business development at Rockmelt (acquired by Yahoo) and led sports and entertainment partnerships for Google/YouTube. Philip is also an active investor and advisor.

Scott Kelliher joined eBay in May of 2019 as Head of US Advertising. Scott is responsible for all direct and indirect advertising revenue, overseeing all aspects of the business including Marketing, Sales, Operations.

Before eBay Advertising, Scott held leadership positions at Time Inc., Yahoo, and AOL where he guided business strategy and key client relationships across several categories. Most recently, he served as President of Sales and Marketing for the Tech, Telco and Auto verticals at Time Inc.

Through his work with some of the world’s most iconic brands, both on the publisher and client side, Scott has deep industry knowledge and keen insight into the complex world of digital advertising, data, and ad tech. He has a true passion for helping brands succeed.

A frequent speaker on panels and at industry events, Kelliher is a graduate of Bates College. Scott currently sits on the Board of Directors for Outthink.

Bernadette Knight is the category lead for white spirits at Campari America, overseeing the brand strategy for a portfolio that includes SKYY Vodka, Espolon Tequila, Montelobos Mezcal and Bulldog Gin. Bernadette’s focus is building powerful, category leading brands that deeply connect with consumers. Prior to joining Campari Group, Bernadette worked for Shawn ‘Jay-Z’ Carter as the Global CMO at Champagne Armand de Brignac, where she created and led the new marketing division that helped shepherd the brand to becoming an icon in the champagne category. During her tenure, Champagne Armand de Brignac was awarded ‘fastest riser’ status on the Drinks International World’s Most Admired Champagne Brands list. Bernadette has deep experience in luxury brand building and held a variety of marketing leadership roles with LVMH across two continents, leading powerhouse brands such as Veuve Clicquot Champagne, Hennessy Cognac, Krug & Ruinart Champagnes and the Estates & Wines portfolio. Bernadette was named on Luxury Daily’s ‘Luxury Women to Watch’ list in 2018.

Amy Lanzi oversees Publicis Media’s Commerce Practice in North America. In this role, she is tasked with product and talent development for the region as well as accelerating and connecting commerce practitioners from across the global Publicis Media network.

During her time at Publicis Media, Lanzi has trained 200+ employees; identified and crafted commerce-focused partnerships with current Publicis Media partners such as Google, Facebook and Amazon; and secured new relationships with Commerce enablers such as Target Media Network (TMN) and Kroger.

Steve has been a thought leader and expert practitioner in planning, executing and measuring digital media campaigns. After selling his digital media agency in 2010, Steve launched Encore Metrics to pioneer a new category for multi-touch attribution and advanced analytics. Encore was acquired by Flashtalking in 2015 and now provides industry-leading, data-driven insights to brands and agencies around the globe. In his current role, Steve oversees Flashtalking’s data and analytics products, sales, marketing and customer success. He plays an active industry leadership role, serving as Co-Chair of IAB’s Measurement & Attribution Committee and a member of the IAB Diversity Leadership Committee. Steve previously worked in software, finance and consulting after earning an MBA from Harvard.

Gian LaVecchia is DoubleVerify’s SVP of Brand Partnerships and Advertiser Sales, responsible for revenue strategy, growth and operational leadership across the Americas. Gian has spent his 20+ year career driving digital and mobile transformation in partnership with some of the world’s most recognized brands and agencies, including Digitas, Microsoft, GroupM and, most recently, Teads – where he served as the Head of Agency Development and Partnerships for North America. Gian is a recognized industry thought leader and commentator and has been frequently published and quoted in prominent outlets including AdWeek, AdAge, Fast Company, WIRED and Wall Street Journal, among others. Gian earned his B.A. from Clark University.

Corey is the Chief Marketing Officer at Lovepop, Boston-based creator of magical pop-up cards, gifts, and decorations that make it easy to share love and make any moment magical. Corey oversees all of Lovepop’s consumer marketing activities, as well as the company’s wholesale and retail business lines. Prior to Lovepop, Corey spent the bulk of her career at the Boston Beer Company (brewers of Samuel Adams, Truly, Twisted Tea, and Angry Orchard) in various marketing, research, business analytics, and corporate strategy roles. She also spent time at startup digital publisher, Flatworld, and Monitor Deloitte. Corey lives just outside of Boston with her husband, four young children, dog, and chickens. In a prior life, she was a member of the 1999 National Champion Women’s Ice Hockey Team at Harvard College.

Heather Liebal leads efforts to connect some of the world’s biggest brands with the strategic insight they need, responsible for driving informed innovation against the future of Direct to Consumer. For the past 6+ years, she has led research, insight, and strategy development for some of Google’s closest partners, applying her expertise across a variety of categories, including retail, consumer brands, restaurants, and education.

  Jeff Lin has a long history of success at both large institutions, as well as gritty start-ups.  He was founder and CEO of FANCHEST, a D2C sports business that became the 2nd Fastest Growing Retailer in America  and top 50 in Inc. Magazine’s 5,000 Most Successful Companies in America.  He sold the business to a private equity firm specializing in consumer products and media (2019). Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, he spent 10-years on Wall Street where he was one of the youngest executive directors at his firm.  Jeff is an active advisory board member in the start-up community and has worked with over 60 companies.  He sits on the Consumer Brand Council at the Interactive Advertising Bureau.   He also serves as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Morgan Stanley with a focus on investing in female and multi-cultural founders.   Since 2020, Jeff has been increasingly involved in the Web3 ecosystem and holds positions at JDS Crypto, Medallion, and KOTA.  He lives with his wife Ali, and their boys, Jayce and Luca, in NYC.

Jeff Lotman is the Owner and CEO of Fred Segal and CEO and Founder of Global Icons. In March 2019, Global Icons acquired Los Angeles based experiential retailer Fred Segal LLC, which has its flagship store on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood.


With the additional investment and support from Lotman and the worldwide Global Icons team, Fred Segal will expand their existing collection of apparel and accessories; open additional retail locations in international territories; and grow its licensing across different verticals ranging from home décor to accessories.

Prior to acquiring Fred Segal, Lotman has been a well-accomplished business veteran who has led his company to the forefront of the licensing industry through his years of experience and savvy entrepreneurship. As a young executive, Lotman spent more than 15 years at Keystone Foods, a multi-billion dollar manufacturing company that developed products for clients such as McDonald’s and Kraft started by his father, Herb Lotman. There he guided the international expansion of the company by establishing manufacturing and distribution operations in over a dozen countries. He advanced to Chief Operating Officer, where he served for three years, before leaving to start Global Icons.

Lotman founded Global Icons in 1998 where he now serves as CEO. The agency specializes in the development and extension of corporate brands and trademarks. It is the largest independently owned agency with offices around the world, generating over $5 billion in retail sales. Over the years, Global Icons has established an impressive reputation and client roster that includes Kleenex, Hostess, Lamborghini, Fireball, Turtle Wax, USPS, Sunkist, Vespa, Magic Chef, and Dickey’s Barbecue Pit among others.

Lotman was born in Philadelphia and now resides in Los Angeles with his wife and two daughters.

As Partner and Associate Director on Invention+ (Mindshare’s division dedicated to media innovation), Rachel leads digital innovation for CHANEL, BlackRock, Lufthansa, PANDORA Jewelry, and other brands across North America. She’s constantly leveraging new ways for brands to reach consumers, be it through AI, AR, VR, audio, voice technology, and more. As part of that, she serves as the agency’s internal Audio Innovation Lead, bringing new audio ideas and strategies to teams.

Rachel is also a fierce advocate for LGBTQ and gender equality. She’s one of the leaders for The Collective, an agency taskforce and cultural imperative that works to drive a diverse, intersectional workplace and bring those same principles to clients’ media plans.

A respected industry thought leader, Rachel’s insights have been featured in publications such as Adweek, Campaign, Mobile Marketer, and Luxury Daily. Her work has been honored at the Mobile Marketing Association’s SMARTIES, the OMMA Awards, the FCS Portfolio Awards, and more. Rachel was recently named one of The Drum’s “50 Under 30” for her creativity in media, and was previously awarded the 2016 Cynopsis Rising Star Award for her standout industry contributions. She also sits on the IAB Audio Council.

Rachel is a graduate of Arizona State University, Barrett Honors College with bachelor’s degrees in French and Marketing, magna cum laude.

Tuan is an AR commercialization lead at Google specializing in brand value and partner development. His goal for AR is to provide superpowers to people to enhance their daily lives.

He joined Google 10 years ago to build out YouTube’s ad platform with some of the biggest brands and content partners in the world. After spending the first year in the US, he moved to Singapore and Tokyo to develop go-to-market strategies and launch ad products on platforms such as YouTube, Google Display Network, and Doubleclick.

Prior to Google, he worked at several startups in Silicon Valley including comparison shopping engines and visual search technology. He is a California Bay Area native and UC Berkeley alumni.

Abigail Mallick is the Assistant Director of Paid Media Strategy and AdOps for Penguin Random House, where she oversees the planning and execution of campaigns and leads the advertising strategy team. In addition to book publishing experience, she has also worked in the nonprofit, higher education and advertising agency space.

Farhad Manjoo became an opinion columnist for The New York Times in 2018.

Before that, they wrote The Times’s State of the Art column, covering the technology industry’s efforts to swallow up the world. They have also written for Slate, Salon, Fast Company and The Wall Street Journal. To their chagrin, their 2008 book, “True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact World,” accurately predicted our modern age of tech-abetted echo chambers and “alternative facts.”

Farhad Manjoo was born in South Africa and emigrated with their family to Southern California in the late 1980s. They live in Northern California with their wife and two children.

Sargi is a seasoned digital marketing executive with experience leading digital business and marketing strategies, establishing innovative programs, and creating integrated strategic solutions. Sargi thrives in environments with the ability to optimize ever-changing business needs, improve processes, and continuously drive growth.  She has a unique blend of strategic and operational experience in developing business solutions across digital strategy, commerce, analytics, measurement and media strategies.  The ability to create connections across a diverse set of digital capabilities across marketing and media.

In her role at Havas Media, Sargi is responsible for creating, collaborating to help increase the digital solution and innovation factor across various client businesses. She works with leadership to develop new products, create meaningful partnerships, audit & improves digital processes and is part of industry advisory boards including Yahoo Agency Leadership Council, Instacart Advisory Council and Google Health Marketing and Advertising Board.

She is also the Brand Safety & Compliance Officer for Havas Media US, and an active member across Brand Safety industry groups including the Advertiser Protection Bureau brand safety task force in 4As, Trustworthy Accountability Group Leadership Committee, Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM), Brand Safety Institute Leadership Council working with industry players to develop new products, guidelines, and frameworks for brand suitability and safety.

She has been named to Adweeks’ list of Media All Stars in 2018 as one of the Agency Executives Guiding the Industry During Turbulent Times. She has been a guest speaker at several conferences and quoted for publications such as; Adage, AdWeek, The Drum, AdExchanger, Medium, CNBC, MediaPost and various video and Podcast appearances speaking of on matters from internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, data driven marketing for branding and E-Commerce.

Prior to Havas Media, Sargi has gained experience in performance & biddable media, UX design & development and eCommerce marketing. She led global digital strategy & performance portfolio for fashion, retail, beauty, CPG, financial, luxury, technology and pharmaceutical categories at Dentsu Aegis. Sargi has actively driven integrated strategy and activation process across digital capabilities throughout her tenure.

On Chicks in the Office, Ria and Fran discuss the biggest stories in pop culture, celebrity relationships and breakups, review TV show recaps, and answer fan submitted questions with special celebrity guest interviews. Just two chicks keeping you informed and up to date on the hard hitting pop culture news you didn’t know you needed.
Recent guests include: Jonas Brothers, Tyra Banks, Jason Derulo, Priyanka Chopra, Alex Rodriguez, Nina Dobrev, French Montana, Bella Thorne, Olivia Culpo, Chris Harrison, Taye Diggs, Scott Eastwood and many more.

Matt has been responsible for DoubleVerify’s product, engineering and sales operations efforts since 2011. Prior to joining DV, Matt held senior product, operations and executive positions in online advertising for over ten years, including roles at Advertising.com and CUnet. Prior to his commercial experience, Matt served as a nuclear submarine officer in the United States Navy. Matt earned his B.S. in Computer Science from the United States Naval Academy and his M.A. (Cantab.) in History and Philosophy of Science from Cambridge University.

With over 25 years of experience as a digital media executive, Eric currently oversees Facebook’s US Consumer Technology business partnerships. Throughout his career, he has worked across linear TV, digital, and mobile platforms, predominantly focused on video strategies and monetization.

Eric emphasizes creativity, culture and diversity, simplicity, and innovation as the foundational elements for a successful partnership. He regularly speaks at marketing and technology events on a variety of topics, including data-driven marketing, diversity and inclusion, marketing disruption, and video.


Prior to Facebook, Eric held various sales and sales management roles, including seven total years at ViacomCBS, most recently as Director, Digital Portfolio & Programmatic Sales. Additionally, he has sales management experience with multiple start-up’s, including Vice President of Eastern Sales at Collective Digital Studio, and Vice President, Online Sales and Distribution for NTent.


Eric has a degree in Business Administration from the University of Maryland, College Park. He currently lives in Westchester County, NY with his wife, two children, and puppy.

Pookie is a content strategist with over 8 years experience building notable consumer pet brands including Guinness World Record Holder and Instagram famous @Nala_Cat. and her siblings, @white_coffee_cat and @hello_luna_rose to name a few. In a short time, Pookie has grown the Nala & family suite of pet accounts to over 10 Million strong. In addition, Pookie has helped create and launch social campaigns to drive brand awareness and customer acquisition for some of the world’s largest consumer brands including Google, Facebook, Instagram, Uber, Sony, Spotify, Wellness Pet Food, Pet Co., PetSmart and Netflix. In addition, Pookie has also partnered with brands like Purina, FreshStep and CatCon to help raise over $250,000 in funds and food donations for pets in need. As Co-Founder of Love, Nala, Pookie oversees the Content Strategy for the brand and manages and leverages the Nala family of accounts to help drive awareness, traffic and customer acquisition for the company

Laura Mignott is a network weaver, global showrunner, and mountain mover known in her industry and beyond for her knack for bringing talented people together. She is the CEO of DFlash, a New York-based experience communications agency that designs global events that make people feel welcome. “The Oprah that you know,” as Laura has been called, is the creator/host of the Reset Podcast, in which she interviews game-changers in the world of business. In order to share practical networking skills she’s honed over the years, Laura is also the creator of the online course One Degree of Connection, where she helps people to discover their passions and their “X factor.” The #BossLady, as she’s affectionately known, sits on multiple boards and leadership committees, including the C19 Coalition, Black Women Talk Tech, and more.

Thanks to Laura’s creative storytelling, strategic mindset, and relentless hustle, DFlash has created and executed everything from pop-ups and private dinners to multi-day global events for Fortune 500 brands like Netflix, Amazon, Samsung, Bose, and many more — and has also opened up new spaces for startups and talent that are often overlooked. Laura has been featured in AdWeek, AdAge, Essence, Forbes, Huff Post, Thrive Global, USA Today, and Black Enterprise, among others, and has made TV appearances as a marketing/branding expert. She is a regular guest lecturer at various universities, including NYU and Baruch. Laura holds a BA from NYU and MBA from Keller Graduate School of Management. She lives in NYC, believes in hard work and good karma, and is always on the hunt for the next great Netflix show to binge.

Allison Murphy is senior vice president, ad innovation at The New York Times Company, a position she assumed in February 2019. In this role, Allison leads the development and delivery of The Times Company’s ad innovation strategy, directing cross-functional teams responsible for accelerating the Company’s development of market-leading ad platforms and products. She is also responsible for the Company’s advertising mission, a cross-functional team that spans product, tech and data to accelerate digital advertising.

Prior to this role, Allison served as vice president, ad innovation, since November 2017 and vice president, products & news partnerships since 2017 where she oversaw teams that ideate, build and execute unique products and packages to bring to advertisers – working in close concert with The Times’s newsroom and digital product teams.

Allison was previously chief of staff to the chief revenue officer, developing strategies and operational plans to grow The Times’s revenue across the subscription and advertising businesses. She began her career at the company in its central strategy & development team.

Before joining The Times, Allison was a strategy consultant for mission-driven organizations at The Bridgespan Group – an affiliate of Bain & Company. Allison has an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and holds a B.A. and an M.A. in English from the University of Virginia.

Colm is a brand and creative strategist with 15 years of experience building brand-driven businesses around the world. He has a proven track record of pushing creativity at scale, particularly for complex clients.

He joined The & Partnership this year from McCann New York, where he was also CSO, overseeing a team of 60 across all strategy disciplines, pitching and winning three pieces of business in just a few months.

Prior to McCann he ran the strategy group at Droga5 New York, where he was responsible for making sure all its brands were driven by culturally-resonant, future-proof strategies that guide and inspire the total brand experience, not just communications.

Brian Norris is Senior Vice President, Direct to Scale, NBCUniversal and leads the sales team responsible for NBCUniversal’s suite of industry-leading, advanced advertising capabilities. Norris brings almost 20 years of management and leadership experience driving television revenue in linear, addressable and digital media. He reports to Tom Stevens, SVP, Advertising Sales, NBCUniversal.

Before joining NBCUniversal, Brian served as Vice President of DISH Media Sales overseeing advertising sales for DISH and Sling TV. Brian joined DISH in 2008 to assist in the establishment of DISH Media Sales’ flagship office in New York. In this role, Brian led the day-to-day efforts for all advertising sales, viewer measurement and operations. Earlier in his career he held sales roles at Viacom and Lifetime Entertainment Services.

Brian volunteers with Big Brothers/ Big Sisters of NYC and currently serves on the board of the nonprofit International Radio and Television Society (IRTS) as well as the IE Business School Alumni Association. He also serves as an undergraduate volunteer interviewer for Brown University’s Alumni Association in his New Jersey geo-market. Additionally, he serves as an advisory board member for both Response Magazine and nonprofit, GuiDANCE Autism.

Brian earned his bachelor’s degree from Towson University and holds an M.B.A from Brown University and IE Business School in Madrid. Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, Brian now resides in Scotch Plains, NJ with his wife Ericka and their two children.

Jim Norton is Chief Revenue Officer at Flowcode, which instantly connects the offline world to the online world using the latest in QR technology. In his role he is responsible for building and managing relationships with partners across the industry who are looking to enhance their omnichannel and direct to consumer strategies. He joined Flowcode from Dosh, a mobile cash back app based in Austin, Texas where he was Chief Revenue Officer.

Previous to Dosh, Jim served as Chief Business Officer, President of Revenue at Condé Nast, where he led revenue diversification efforts in direct-to-consumer subscriptions, events, licensing, and eCommerce. Prior to Condé Nast, he spent seven years at AOL as Global Head of Media Sales, and earlier in his career he held sales roles at Google and Tribune Broadcasting. Jim has both an undergraduate and graduate degree from Boston College.

Kelly Oriard is the co-CEO and co-Founder of Slumberkins, a Direct-to-Consumer, e-commerce, children’s brand on a mission to promote emotional wellness and provide tools to help raise caring, confident, and resilient children. The brand is refreshing the plush toy industry, and resonating with parents that find community on social media platforms and seek out modern, new, and intentional products to bring into their homes. Slumberkins is on the forefront of brand building online as they expand into children’s entertainment by bringing the characters to life in a preschool television series produced by the Jim Henson Company.

Sean Popen is VP of Digital Marketing and eCommerce at Tracfone Wireless, where he and his team lead all facets of digital marketing and online sales across Tracfone’s portfolio of “no contract” wireless properties for B2C and B2B. Other facets of his role include leading digital creative, digital CX, and martech, to support the omnichannel ecosystem. Sean started his career in direct marketing at Feld Entertainment, then moved into Digital with roles at Netflix, AOL, CenturyLink, Lenovo, and Office Depot. On his spare time, he stays active by running, playing tennis, and has recently taken up surfing. Sean resides in South Florida.

Jay Prasad has over two decades of experience in leading companies and the industry in the data and cross screen revolution across digital video and TV. Jay is currently the Chief Strategy Officer for LiveRamp TV In this role, he will help create a holistic go to market strategy for all of the LiveRamp TV offerings in the US and grow it Internationally, and evaluate M&A opportunities. Taking into account dynamic aggressive market trends, emerging and disruptive technologies, he will lead a team that is tasked with executing strategic and revenue partnerships that accelerate the industry’s move to scale liquidity in cross screen marketing and outcome based measurement.

Most recently, Jay was the Chief Business & Strategy Officer for VideoAmp Mr. Prasad led VideoAmp’s business strategy, partnerships and marketing that were instrumental in developing new products around TV and Video unification, and raising 106M in venture funding. Notably, Mr. Prasad is a co-inventor on VideoAmp’s patents.

Prior to joining VideoAmp, Mr. Prasad served as VP of Global Business Development at TubeMogul where he led the company’s launch of Programmatic TV, data and supply partnerships, as well as their international partnership teams in the U.S., EU, Japan, and Southeast Asia. Previously, he led strategic development at FreeWheel focused on broadcaster’s distribution to digital and OTT platforms. Jay has also held leadership roles with Yahoo!, and Ernst & Young.


Mr. Prasad is on the Video board of the IAB and also serves on its government affairs and advanced TV committee


Mr. Prasad holds a degree in Marketing, International Business, and Risk Management from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and studied International Business and International Political Economics at the London Business School. He also holds a certificate in BlockChain innovation from the MIT Sloan School of Business.


Jay Prasad joined LiveRamp TV as chief strategy officer in January 2020. LiveRamp, a data connectivity platform leveraged by brands and their partners to deliver exceptional experiences, tapped Prasad, formerly chief strategy officer at ad-tech firm VideoAmp, to create a holistic go-to-market strategy and capture the opportunity in data-driven marketing in TV streaming. Prasad joined LiveRamp shortly after the company’s $150 million acquisition of Data Pus Math.

Dan Ramsay leads the PurePlay and DTC retail team for Google in San Francisco. He works closely with digitally native vertical brands to grow their reach, build their customer base and drive profitability using category insights, advanced digital media strategies as well as privacy safe measurement and incrementality techniques. Prior to his current role, Dan worked in the specialty retail vertical at Google leading clients to capitalise on growth opportunities in Ecommerce, Omnichannel, Digital Marketing and Measurement. Dan started out his Google Career in the UK, moving to the bay area with his wife in 2017, making Sausalito their new home. Before joining Google, Dan held several Marketing & Digital roles in the client and agency world within the retail, not for profit and tech B2B sectors including at Ogilvy and Cancer Research UK.

Robert, an IBM Design Principal and Head of AI Ad Product Design Watson Advertising, has spent his career developing strategies, campaigns, interactive, and AI/ML-powered solutions while driving innovation and success with a hands-on, research-focused, everything-is-possible approach. Recently he’s been guiding the team, bringing IBM Watson to consumers at scale with Watson Ads and Advertising Accelerator with Watson. He’s always searching for new problems to solve with design, data, and a little sweat and ingenuity.

Carter Reum is a Partner and Co-Founder of M13, a full-service venture engine with offices in Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco. Founded with his brother Courtney, M13 executes a “founders first” focus to build and scale leading consumer technology companies.

In 2007, following careers at Goldman Sachs, Carter and Courtney established VEEV Spirits with the goal of creating “a better way to drink.” An early leader in sustainability and wellness, VEEV Spirits became one of the fastest-growing independent brands in the country.

While growing VEEV, Carter and Courtney supported other entrepreneurs by investing and serving as advisors and board members. Their experience as operators and investors inspired M13’s holdco model consisting of a $200M consumer tech fund, active support of its founding teams and a launchpad brand studio that incubates ideas into sustainable companies with partners such as P&G Ventures. With more than 80 direct investments and 16 exits, M13’s prior investments total over $137B in enterprise value and includes Lyft, Pinterest, Ring, Daily Harvest, FabFitFun, Rothy’s and more.

In 2017, Carter and Courtney were appointed the first ever Executives in Residence for the City of Los Angeles, created in an effort to merge the arts and entertainment industries with traditional consumer product industries. As part of the initiative, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti hand-selected Carter to work on the City’s branding initiatives and partner engagements. Carter is a member of the LACMA Board of Trustees and serves on the digital advisory of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Carter holds a B.A. with distinction from Columbia University and is an alumnus of Harvard Business School. Carter and his brother are the authors of the national bestseller Shortcut Your Startup (Simon & Schuster) that shares business insights to empower the next generation of entrepreneurs.

Courtney Reum is an investor, entrepreneur and author.

Courtney and his brother Carter are Partners and Co-Founders of M13, a full-service venture engine with offices in Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco. M13 executes a “founders first” focus to build and scale leading consumer technology companies. M13’s holdco model consists of a $200M consumer tech fund, active support of its founding teams and a launchpad brand studio that incubates ideas into sustainable companies with partners such as P&G Ventures. With more than 80 direct investments and 16 exits, M13’s prior investments total over $137B in enterprise value and includes Lyft, Pinterest, Ring, Daily Harvest, FabFitFun, Rothy’s and more.

The brothers began their careers at Goldman Sachs before launching their first company, VEEV Spirits, one of the fastest-growing independent brands and an early leader in sustainability and wellness. Courtney was appointed as one of Mayor Eric Garcetti’s Commissioners for the Los Angeles Convention Center & Tourism Authority and Executive in Residence for LA. An active member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO), he served as the President of the Bel-Air Chapter. Courtney sits on the boards of the Los Angeles Opera and City Year.

With over seventeen years of experience managing digital advertising campaigns, Orchid Richardson is the Senior Vice President of Digital at Blavity Inc., where she leads the growth of Blavity360º’s Black and multicultural publisher network, increasing revenue for all its members. Her experience as an expert data solution architect and integrator has allowed her to lead initiatives within many prominent media companies, entertainment networks, and publications during her career. Orchid has worked for several other media companies, including BET Networks, Hearst Magazines Digital Media, and 33Across, Inc. At the IAB, Orchid served as the Senior Vice President of IAB’s Programmatic and Data Center (PDC), where she defined the strategic vision and executed the PDC Board of Directors’ agenda. Orchid also established industry-wide standards and business guidelines for the responsible use of data that enabled relevant, personalized, and privacy-compliant consumer experiences. Orchid led industry-wide training on The Data Centric-Organization, providing direction on how to break down a matrix organization through four key areas – people, partnerships, processes, and platforms.

Orchid is actively involved in advertising, having held leadership roles in key industry trade organizations, including Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement and Black MAKERS. Additionally, she is an active member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. She is Vice President of the Metro-Manhattan (NY) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated, and the Westchester Chapter of Jack & Jill of America. Orchid also serves as a board member and fundraising chair of the Ujamaa Community Development Corporation, which has built over $100 million in affordable housing in Westchester County, New York. She is passionate about giving back and helping to unite the community.

Rachel is the Sr. Marketing Manager at Native. She oversees a wide range of marketing channels at Native, but specializes in Podcast. The company added podcast to its marketing portfolio 1.5 years ago and under Rachel’s leadership the channel has become an essential part of Native’s marketing mix.

Trace Rutland has spent 20+ years at media agencies in various roles in both planning and buying across all media channels. She acted quickly on a fad called digital media and has been chasing that bright shiny object ever since. Jumping to the client side, she oversaw media buying across the Mars portfolio and then moved to Hershey to lead addressable media and technology. Recently, Trace joined Ocean Spray to build and lead a data driven media practice.

Berto, a writer, started his career in advertising 17 years ago at Havas San Juan after completing his BBA in Advertising and Public Relations at the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico and winning a few student advertising awards. After stints at different local agencies, working on brands like BK, Firefox, Corona, BBVA, Reckitt Benckiser, and Medalla Light, he moved his family from the beautiful beaches of Puerto Rico to the Rocky Mountains to work on the Silver Bullet, Coors Light. Throughout his career, he has helped clients of various sizes and structures, at branding boutiques, digital studios, and ad agencies; connect with their audiences authentically. Berto has also collected some international advertising awards like FIAP, El Ojo, Cúspide y Caribe. He now leads the multicultural creative team at Studio Resonate, Pandora’s in-house audio-first creative consultancy. He also hosts a podcast about creativity ADQLEB.com – and teaches copywriting at The Miami Ad School/Portfolio Center in Atlanta.

Mark Schlosser leads the Brand Partnerships team at White Ops. In his nearly five years (and counting) fighting bots, he has been able to help brands around the world ensure their marketing strategies are reaching humans. Before White Ops, Mark spent 10 years at Collective and Yahoo! where he worked in sales roles. Notably, at Yahoo! he won the Annual President’s Club award 3 times. Mark prides himself on his expert leadership abilities, which started in college when he was elected Student Government President to 17,000 students. Outside the office, he’s an avid boxer and fitness lover. Rolling with the punches isn’t just for the ring, it’s part of being an effective leader. Schlosser holds a business degree from Towson University.

One of the industry’s leading voices in Creativity, Content and Digital Storytelling, Alan Schulman is a Branding, Advertising and Digital creative veteran. He recently served as Chief Creative Officer and Content Practice Lead for Deloitte Digital from 2015-2020.

Over his 25+ year career, Alan has held Executive Creative & Content leadership roles at leading global agencies including McCann-Erickson, FutureBrand Worldwide, Foote, Cone & Belding, Sapient and most recently as Chief Creative Officer of Deloitte Digital US.

Alan is the recipient of numerous awards for creative & content excellence, including leading branding and marketing campaigns for such noted media & entertainment brands as HBO, Verizon Media, EA Sports, Showtime, ESPN, and others. He has been referred to as a “Creative Director of the Future” by Ad Age’s Creativity Magazine and was named one of OMMA’s “Digital Creative ALL-STARS in 2015.”

Alan is currently an Advisory Board member of the American Marketing Association (AMA) of NY. He has served on the Board of Governors of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (EMMYS NY), the Creative Review Committee of The AdCouncil, as well as a former Co-Dean and Juror of the Creative Academy for the 2018 Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity. He has also served as Co-Chair of the 4A’s Creative Technology Committee, as a member of the IAB Product Development Committee and as a member of the Adobe Global Creative Director’s Council.

Among his lesser known accomplishments, Alan is an accomplished jazz guitarist who holds a Master’s Degree in Jazz Arranging & Composition from Howard University in Washington, DC. During his career, he has appeared as a sideman with such noted jazz artists as Anita Baker, Herbie Hancock and Wynton Marsalis. He performs regularly in the Jazz Quartet AsIs – whose CD “Here’s to Life” reach #9 on the Downbeat Jazz Charts in 2018. Schulman is an current active voting member of the Recording Academy (GRAMMYS),

Jacee Scoular is the Director of Brand Marketing at Hollister Co., and has a laser-focus on building customer-first brand strategies that authentically connect with Hollister’s core Gen-Z demographic. Her efforts have led to relationships with partners that reach the teen customer in ways that are meaningful and relatable, and meeting Gen-Z where they already spend their time with engaging, relevant content.

Steven is a Partner & Chief Revenue Officer at Ad Results Media, a leading purchaser of podcast advertising globally. In his current role, Steve leads Client Strategy & Relations, in overseeing some of the largest podcast & audio advertisers including Molson Coors, ZipRecruiter, Ring, Peloton, Stamps.com & many others.

Steve joined Ad Results Media as part of a merger with his firm Brown Bear Digital in 2016. As a co-founder of Brown Bear Digital, he built and led a team providing offline marketing consulting, working with start-ups like Blue Apron, Harry’s, Casper, SeatGeek and others to help launch their audio marketing initiatives. Under his leadership, the agency helped launch and scale some of the largest brands in podcasting today.

Steve resides in San Diego where he spends his free time with his family as well as coaching youth sports and biking.

Bill Simmons is a multi-media star who throughout his illustrious career has been a successful podcaster, columnist, author, TV host, and analyst, whose prolific writings, rants, and insights have become the voice for a generation of American sports fans. In March of 2016, he launched the immensely successful THE RINGER website and podcast network, which is home to an intriguing blend of sports, pop culture and over 30 popular podcasts available today. In February of 2020, Spotify announced it had entered an agreement to purchase The Ringer.

In 2015, he signed a multi-year, multi-platform deal with HBO, an umbrella under which his weekly talk show Any Given Wednesday aired in 2016. In July 2018, Simmons signed a new deal with HBO that will see him continue to produce content and assets for the network, including video podcasts, features, shows, and documentary films. This came on the heels of the hugely successful HBO documentary Andre the Giant , which Simmons executive produced under the banner of Ringer Films, the most recent addition to Simmons’ company’s portfolio. Andre the Giant has amassed nearly 7.3 million viewers across platforms, the highest HBO cumulative total on record for a sports documentary. Ringer Film’s next project with HBO will be Showbiz Kids , a feature-length documentary that Simmons will executive produce. Showbiz Kids is about the highs and lows of children working in the entertainment industry featuring interviews with some of the most famous former child actors in the world.

Previously, Simmons served as the founding editor of Grantland, the sports and pop culture website that he created in 2011. The site featured a mix of original columns, long-form features, and blog posts by an accomplished and diverse lineup of the internet’s leading writers and editors. Simmons also served as co-host of The Grantland Basketball Hour and was an executive producer of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning documentary series 30 for 30 . His podcast, The B.S. Report ., was a mainstay in the top 10 among Sports &
Recreation podcasts on iTunes.

Off-screen, Simmons is the author of two New York Times No. 1 best-sellers, The Book of Basketball and Now I Can Die in Peace.Simmons received a Master’s Degree in Journalism from Boston University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from the College of the Holy Cross.

He currently lives in Los Angeles.

Rebecca Skrak is Head of Business Operations at eBay Advertising, responsible for overseeing sales operations, campaign delivery, pricing, and platform partnerships across North America. An advertising veteran with deep-rooted expertise in digital media, business development and integrated marketing, Rebecca leverages 20 years of industry experience at top media institutions such as OmnicomMedia Group and FCB Global, planning and buying media across TV, digital and print. Prior to eBay, she was Senior Vice President of Operations at Tremor Video where she oversaw the company’s platform and revenue operations, as well as third-party partnerships. Rebecca is a graduate of DePaul University and lives in San Francisco.

Brandon joined the Momentary Ink team in August of 2019 after developing several of his own brands including West Diamond Weddings, Understand Your Brand (Clothing Co.), and Into The Nations (a non-profit working with underserved communities in El Salvador). With a background in film and design, he builds content and creative strategy for Momentary Ink’s social ad platforms including TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat.

Sharon Terlep writes about consumer products and the pharmacy industry for The Wall Street Journal, including issues around retail, consumer behavior and the drug-store business. She has been a reporter at the Journal since 2008, working in Detroit and New York, covering beats including the automotive industry, mergers and acquisitions and sports investigations. Mr. Terlep covered the 2008 collapse of the U.S. auto industry, Wall Street dealmaking amid the economic recovery and controversial efforts to reform health standards in college sports.

Tobaccowala was named by BusinessWeek as one of the top business leaders for his pioneering innovation and TIME magazine dubbed him one of five “Marketing Innovators.

Rishad is the author of “Restoring the Soul of Business: Staying Human in The Age of Data” which helps people think, feel, and see differently about how to grow their companies, their teams and themselves to remain relevant and the upcoming “Re-Thinking Work” to be published globally by HarperCollins in February 2025 which helps people thrive amidst the seismic changes of tech and talent.

Rishad most recently served as the Chief Growth Officer and Chief Strategist of Publicis Groupe.

Rebecca is a consumer centric, results-oriented, digital first global marketer with 20+ years of experience in successful development of brand and growth strategies, digital transformation, data driven marketing, communications planning and performance media execution for global and DTC brands such as ThirdLove, Calvin Klein, P&G’s Gillette Franchise, Johnson & Johnson, Verizon Wireless, and Burger King.

There is nothing I love more than to understand the intersection of product, culture and consumer truths to deliver successful award-winning marketing campaigns, brand impact and deeper consumer connections. It’s the art, science and strategic rigor to the implementation of those marketing campaigns that has helped me drive positive business growth for my brands and clients. I have a profound enthusiasm for entrepreneurialism, innovation, creation….. And pop culture!

Melanie Travis is the Founder and CEO of Andie, a global e-commerce brand disrupting the market for women’s swimwear. Melanie established her career at some of New York City’s most successful consumer technology companies: Foursquare, Kickstarter, and most recently Bark & Co. Melanie studied Comparative Literature at Haverford College and film directing at the California Institute of the Arts (MFA).

Lindsay Van Kirk is the Vice President of Product Management at Xandr. She is responsible for leading the end-to-end product management and strategy for SSPs, DSPs and Data Partners that create a thriving marketplace within the AppNexus exchange. Previously, Lindsay was a Senior Director of Product Line Management, overseeing a team that worked closely with digital publishers to maximize monetization through header bidding. Prior to that, she also held strategy and operations roles, including building out the strategy and operations function for the AppNexus publisher business and the sales operations function.

Lindsay is a graduate of Georgetown University where she received her Bachelors of Science in Foreign Service, focused on the intersection of culture, politics, and media.

In his current role Karl is responsible for driving subscription growth at Dow Jones for the Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch and Barron’s. As the GM of membership he leads a team of 45+ responsible for global new subscriber acquisition, engagement, retention, and data science. Karl and his team have been central to the subscription growth at Dow Jones, playing a key role in the transformation to a subscription dominated business. Prior to Dow Jones Karl worked at News UK helping to grow the Times of London subscriber base and launching a new subscription business (Sun+). Collectively Karl has 17 years of media and publishing experience having started his career at WPP (Mindshare and Mediacom) in comms strategy roles. Karl is based out of New York City with Helen, his wife of 6 years and Samuel (3).

Kevin works at Molson Coors Beverage company as a Senior Marketing Manager where he is responsible for all national media across the Above Premium portfolio of brands — including Blue Moon, Peroni and recently launched Vizzy Hard Seltzer and Coors Seltzer — as well as the enterprise lead and subject matter expert for Podcast advertising at the company. Kevin brings 13+ years of industry experience, most of which has been dedicated to the Molson Coors stable of brands both in house as well as on the agency side prior.