Born in Nigeria and raised in the United States, Blacktag CEO and Co-Founder Akin Adebowale is a multidisciplinary artist and engineer and graduate of the University of Georgia. His first entrepreneurial venture, BASE Official, was a creative agency that impacted the careers of culture icons like Drake, Kanye West, Common, and more, contributed to the growth of major brands like Hilton Hotels and caught the attention of Bob Johnson, founder of BET and first Black US billionaire, as both a client and later mentor to Adebowale. Drawing on his experiences with independent fashion clients, Adebowale later founded fashion and design marketplace, OXOSI, which most commonly sourced from African countries, was geared towards Black designers, and successfully raised a total of 2.1M USD in just two years.

TJ leads the U.S. Sports business at Twitter, after spending the previous few years managing Twitter’s partnerships with major U.S. sports leagues, including the NFL, NBA, and MLB. He is responsible for helping Twitter’s sports partners answer the question “how do we leverage the power of Twitter to achieve our business objectives?”. He advises sports properties
who look to Twitter to reach new audiences, monetize, and do cool and innovative sh*t.

TJ has been recognized for his diverse experience and expertise in sports trends across the industry and digital landscape. He is recognized as an authority on digital sports media, with appearances on Good Morning America, ESPN, CNBC, CBS as well as the Wall Street Journal, GQ, and Bloomberg. Additionally, TJ was recently recognized by the Sports Business Journal as 40 under 40 and named one of 29 “Young Influentials” by AdWeek.

Before joining Twitter in 2012, TJ worked on digital sales and marketing at ESPN where he supported the company’s digital properties, including ESPN.com and WatchESPN.

Follow him on Twitter at @tjay.

As Co-Head of Content and Programming for IMDb TV, Amazon’s free, ad-supported streaming service, Lauren Anderson oversees all programming for IMDb TV, including development, production, licensing, research, and strategy. Prior to joining IMDb TV, Anderson served as Head, Strategic Content for Amazon Studios, she spearheaded such series as The Savage x Fenty Show for Prime Video. Prior to joining Amazon, Anderson was the Chief Content Officer (CCO) for Indigo Development and Entertainment Arts, the joint venture studio between NBCUniversal and Snapchat. As CCO, she was responsible for all aspects of the business and creative development for the studio. During her tenure, Indigo produced a variety of Snap Originals for the Discover platform, including the Webby-nominated and longest-running scripted hit The Dead Girls Detective Agency.

Previously, Anderson was Senior Vice President of Primetime Programming at NBC Entertainment. It was this work that saw her named by Variety as one of Hollywood’s New Leaders. During her time at NBC, she worked at both the studio and network, developing and/or shepherding series including The Good Place, AP Bio, Parks and Recreation, The Office, The Carmichael Show, and the musical drama Smash. Her work at NBC also included oversight of several non-traditional offerings, including a multi-season live scripted series. Anderson began her career at NBCUniversal as an Entertainment Associate. Prior to joining NBC, Anderson served as an executive at the National Basketball Association in New York City. She began working at the NBA as a summer intern while earning her BA from Columbia University in New York City. Although based in Los Angeles, she still calls Ohio home.

Jesse Angelo is President Global News and Entertainment, VICE Media Group, where he oversees the News, Publishing and Television businesses of the world’s largest independent youth media company. As the VICE’s most senior strategic and operational content leader, Angelo has spearheaded the content development, growth and international expansion of the award-winning VICE News division, VICE’s digital channels, and Vice TV, the television network. He joined VICE Media Group in June 2019. Before joining VMG, Jesse Angelo was Publisher and CEO of The New York Post, as well as Chief of Digital Advertising Solutions for parent company News Corp. A native New Yorker, Angelo worked as a reporter and editor for News Corp titles in London, Sydney and New York for 20 years. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College with a degree in American History and Literature. He sits on the board of the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism CUNY Foundation, and co-edited Deadline Artists, two anthologies of America’s greatest newspaper columns.

Three-time NBA All-Star Gilbert Arenas has built a brand off being one of the most interesting, honest basketball players on the planet. After an 11-year pro career where he went from second round pick to averaging over 20+ points per game and becoming the face of Adidas basketball and 20-point per game scorer, Gilbert transitioned his big personality (he was named “Best Celebrity Blogger” in the mid-2000s for his ongoing blog on NBA.com) to media after he hung up his sneakers.

Starting with Out of Bounds, a daily sports show on Complex, Gilbert launched the No Chill podcast in 2018 to create an unfiltered platform for himself and his unique brand of analysis. In 2020, No Chill launched on Fubo Sports Network and expanded from digital-only to television. The show is now a fan favorite with streams, downloads and views in the millions. No Chill has earned a silver Telly, a first-place Cablefax Program Award and was named a finalist in the Cynopsis Sports Media Awards.

In Adam’s 20 years at Merkley, he has worked on a range of clients within the automotive, financial, pharmaceutical, luxury, CPG and dining categories with a focus on media strategy and activation. As Chief Media Officer of Merkley + Partners, Adam is focused on bringing innovative thinking to all clients in a converging offline and online world. During his tenure, Adam has stewarded several initiatives that have consistently allowed Merkley + Partner clients be one step ahead in the constantly evolving media landscape.

He lives by a simple day-to-day rule: Always go that extra mile for clients and colleagues. So, whether he’s planning an upfront strategy, overseeing the 175 local media plans for Mercedes-Benz, guiding clients through the evolving streaming landscape or securing time in the Super Bowl, everything gets a big-league, put-out-the-fires, able-to-leap-tall-buildings- in-a-single-bound effort.

Daisy Auger-Dominguez has made it her mission to make workplaces more equitable, compassionate and inclusive. A human capital executive and workplace culture strategist, Daisy inspires and equips global organizations to think inclusively, lead with purpose, embrace courage and shape the future of work.

As the Chief People Officer at VICE Media Group, Daisy shapes, builds and reinforces the culture of the Vice teams, promotes professional growth, engagement and development, helps to accelerate business performance, and champions an equitable and inclusive employee experience.

Prior to VICE Media Group, Daisy founded and led Auger-Domínguez Ventures, a consultancy that transformed the leading companies and organizations of our times by taking them from inclusive workplace culture theory to practice through organizational psychology, applied experimentation, strategic planning and organizational capacity building. She has designed and executed organizational transformations at Moody’s Investors Service, The Walt Disney Company and Google. Her impact over the past 20 years reaches across the global business, social impact, entrepreneurial and philanthropic communities.

A dynamic and sought-after speaker, Daisy writes about reimagining diversity, equity and inclusion, workplace culture and leadership. She serves on the board of directors of Planned Parenthood Federation of America as Vice-Chair, the Brooklyn Children’s Museum as Secretary of the Board, the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, and on the advisory board of Facing History and Ourselves.

Third Party Endorsers have said – “Nadja rejects the term “Digital first” because everything is digital.” She prefers to say she is “human first”. Before it became fashionable, embracing the trend to combine the principles of what drives behaviour using data, creativity, technology and smart media to transform brands by making the right customer connections.

As Vice Media Group’s first Global Chief Marketing Officer, Nadja is responsible for developing the enterprise brand strategy for this media conglomerate. She oversees marketing, brand strategy, data and insights, and global communications in over 25 countries. Prior to joining Vice Media Group, Nadja was the Executive Partner and WPP Team Leader for Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide. At WPP, Nadja led the Brand Transformation for Unilever across Beauty and Personal Care focusing specifically on Dove and led behaviour change for Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation globally.

She is known as the “fixer”- the person brands call when they are facing challenges in brand transformation. Nadja utilises her 26+ year career in integrated marketing, media and communications to transform brands. Using her background in digital, brand, and consulting she has a unique approach that makes her an invaluable member of the team. During her career, Nadja has led brand transformations for such clients such as American Express, LG Electronics, IKEA North America, RBS Citizens, Bharti Airtel, Coca-Cola, Siemens, Safaricom/Vodaphone. While in Africa, her team leveraged partnered with key African government leaders in driving business growth in countries across East and West Africa.

Context, Culture, and Creativity are also critical for Nadja. Nadja was the recipient of AdColor’s Legend Award for her excellence in advertising, media and communications, the 2019 recipient as one of Savoy Magazine’s top 100 Women in

Corporate America, named one of the top women to watch for AdAge Europe in 2020 and recently named one of the top 25 Women of Color in Communications in 2021.

Ms. Bellan-White is an A Better Chance, Inc. Scholar recipient; earned a BA in Foreign Affairs and Spanish from The University of Virginia in 1989 and an MBA from NYU- Stern School of Business in 1994.

She has served both a member and the President of Dubai Lynx, Creative Effectiveness Jury; member of the Council of Urban Professionals Board (NY); Executive Leadership Council, Executive Director of The Roundhouse.Org (UK) and was recently elected to the Board of the Ad Council.

Alysia Borsa is President of Meredith Digital of Meredith Corporation’s National Media Group, the leading multi-platform media company focused on women – reaching 95% of all U.S. women and more than 190 million unduplicated American consumers every month. Borsa oversees all digital strategy, content, products, technology, sales, marketing, e-commerce and operations for the company’s 40+ iconic brands, including PEOPLE, Better Homes & Gardens, Allrecipes, Southern Living and REAL SIMPLE.

Since joining Meredith a decade ago, Borsa has served in several executive roles, including EVP/Chief Data Officer, Chief Business Officer and Chief Marketing Officer. Her distinguished record and forward-thinking approach have been instrumental in Meredith achieving many key milestones, including the establishment of the Meredith Data Studio. This suite of advertising solutions leverages the company’s rich, proprietary first-party data and predictive insights capabilities, helping to inform its partners’ marketing, product and business strategies. Under Borsa’s leadership, Meredith has also expanded its business partnerships with a wide array of retailers and blue chip marketers.

Prior to Meredith, Borsa held senior positions in the technology, telecommunications and consulting sectors. She worked at Nokia, Comcast and Accenture, developing and executing strategies to grow new and legacy businesses.

Borsa serves on the ANA’s Data & Technology Growth Council and the boards of directors of the Interactive Advertising Bureau; AdLedger, an industry blockchain trade group; and 4-H, a nonprofit youth development organization.

Brian “The Boz” Bosworth is a former American professional football player. He played as a linebacker for the ‘Seattle Seahawks’ in the ‘National Football League’ (NFL). Brian was a college football star and achieved great success while playing for ‘Oklahoma.’ He even won the ‘Dick Butkus Award’ in 1985. He was then selected in the first round of the 1987 ‘NFL’ supplemental drafts, by the ‘Seattle Seahawks.’ He is also a two-time consensus ‘All-American.’ Brian has also appeared in films such as ‘Stone Cold’ (1991), ‘One Tough Bastard’ (1996), ‘Midnight Heat’ (1996), and ‘Back in Business’ (1997). Brian also had a small role in the film ‘The Longest Yard.’ Brian has been quite popular for his outspoken personality, especially after he made certain disputable comments about the ‘National Collegiate Athletic Association’ (NCAA). He is also known for his innovative hairstyles.

Brooke Bowhay is a Director of Planning and Activation at Carat in Los Angeles. She has worked across numerous verticals in her media career including theatrical, retail, travel and QSR. Though her media knowledge spans across all channels, she is most passionate about digital media and was recently named one of Viant Technology’s Women to Watch in Digital Advertising. When she isn’t working, you can find Brooke snowboarding or binge-watching true crime documentaries.

Doug Brodman is the Director of North America Agency & Platform Solutions for Twitter. In this role, Doug helps to strategically create business-building opportunities aligned with the Agency & Media marketplace. He leads the team that helps agencies, platform partners and their clients create innovative programming, content, and media solutions to drive business results on Twitter. Doug and his team have helped to position Twitter as a leading platform partner in the media ecosystem and lead some of the service’s largest initiatives around its Twitter Amplify video business, creative agency education, and engagement, and API partner integration and product development adoption.

Prior to joining Twitter, Doug has spent five years at Google as a part of the US Agency team, leading strategic deals & partnerships with the largest US Media Agencies and fortune 100 brand clients across Media & Entertainment, CPG, Automotive, and Retail. During that time, Doug played a critical role in growing YouTube’s presence in the upfront marketplace and accelerating the shift of traditional TV dollars into the YouTube platform – making YouTube a perennial contender alongside major TV networks in the upfront season and focusing on new product adoption, original programming and content development with key agency partners. Prior to Google, Doug leads the Sales Marketing efforts of the NBC Universal Olympic business for three years helping to initiate the first-ever full live streaming of the Olympic Games in the 2012 London Olympics and also spent six-plus years as a part of the Publicis family, launching & leading the Procter & Gamble digital media buying practice.

Nathan Brown serves as General Manager for Ellen Digital, a joint venture between entertainment pioneer Ellen DeGeneres and Warner Bros.

Brown is responsible for leading the strategic vision and management of DeGeneres’ digital business with full financial responsibility. He oversees all owned and operated sites – including the award-winning platform, ellentube – Ellen Digital’s industry-leading original digital content studio, DeGeneres’ robust social media reach, and successful digital games business. Additionally, Brown is further delving into podcasting and experiential opportunities and working with the e-commerce team to expand DeGeneres’ presence.

Brown is an accomplished digital media executive and entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience dedicated to the development, convergence, and disruption of emerging platforms, content, technology, advertising, and media.

Brown was co-founder and CEO of AR/VR content, research, and technology start-up Tomorrow Never Knows, where he executive produced projects premiering at major film festivals worldwide, including Tribeca Film Festival, Venice Biennale, and Sundance Film Festival. Additionally, Brown served as Chief Business Officer of pioneering mobile entertainment and experiential studio Tactic, heading strategy, partnerships, revenue, and M&A.

Prior to TNK and Tactic, Brown was the President of Seeker (Discovery Digital Networks), where he oversaw strategy, revenue, operations, and all P&L responsibilities. He helped lead the Discovery Digital Networks merger with Thrillist Media Group, The Dodo, and Now This Media. Along with a $100M Discovery investment, these companies formed Group Nine Media, one of the world’s largest digital-first media companies. Additionally, he was the head of the multiple Webby-awarded Discovery VR platform and studio, scaling it to become the world’s largest producer and distributor of cinematic virtual reality.

As the previous GM and SVP of Video at The Huffington Post, Brown oversaw all areas of global video, TV, and film, including development, production, programming, distribution, and monetization. Brown joined The Huffington Post from Complex Media, where he was the founding General Manager of Video and TV, creating Complex News and launching multiple break-out cultural hits helping scale Complex into becoming one of the world’s most successful digital video publishers, ultimately exiting to Verizon/Hearst.

Brown often speaks at global conferences such as SXSW, MIPCOM, CES, Digital Hollywood, Media Summit, OMMA, Techweek, LDV Summit, and Playlist Live.

Keith Bryan is SVP – President, Best Buy Advertising Business, Media, and CRM, with responsibility for Best Buy’s retail media business, media investments, and CRM teams.

Prior to his current position, Keith held other executive roles at Best Buy, most recently SVP – Customer Relationships, leading Best Buy’s strategy to enrich customers’ lives through technology via their relationships with Best Buy, including the CE retailer’s customer membership offerings such as the My Best Buy loyalty program and payments experiences such as Best Buy credit cards, digital wallets, and gift cards.

Earlier roles included SVP – Media, Engagement, and Personalization, including all paid media, SEM, affiliates, social, ad tech, and CRM, as well as the company’s personalization strategy across paid, owned, and earned media and digital platforms. He created and led the Best Buy Media Network, which offers comprehensive media solutions for Best Buy’s partners, and was Merchant Director responsible for a $3 billion P&L that included launching Best Buy’s Apple store-within-a-store. His marketing experience started in CPG at Sara Lee and he practiced corporate law in Atlanta.

He received his MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and his JD from Emory University.

Jenny Burke serves as Executive Vice President, Advertising Strategy, NBCUniversal.
In this role, Jenny has oversight of NBCU’s One Platform growth strategy ranging from global, to local, to streaming, continuing to drive the transformation of advertising at NBCUniversal. Jenny’s organization is structured into three key areas in support of NBCU’s One Platform growth strategy: Agency Strategy, Peacock Strategy and Global & Local Integration Strategy.



Jenny has been with the company for nearly 20 years beginning first in NBC Olympics Finance and Production, and then joining Ad Sales in 2006 to help launch a new Digital Sales team. As she expanded her Strategy role more broadly over the last several years, she has always kept digital at the core of her expertise. Jenny’s role in digital includes the digital advertising sales strategy for NBCUniversal’s news and sports properties, including NBCNews.com, TODAY.com, MSNBC.com, CNBC.com and NBCSports.com. Jenny reports to Krishan Bhatia, Chief Business Officer, NBCUniversal.



In 2011, Jenny was named to Adweek’s “Young Influentials” in 2020. She earned a Bachelor’s of Administration from the University of Notre Dame and a Masters of Business Administration from Columbia Business School.

Ana Bárbara is an iconic, global Regional Mexican singer-songwriter, actress, and superstar. A GRAMMY award winning artist, she is one of the most emblematic voices in Mexican music. She is a vocal judge on the EstrellaTV entertainment competition series “Tengo Talento, Mucho Talento,” providing guidance and inspiration for the contestants auditioning for their shot at stardom.

With a 20-year music career, she has stood out in different musical genres, from mariachi to pop, through Sinaloa bandas, gruperos and romantic ballads with 10 studio albums selling millions of copies.

As EVP, Head of Multiplatform Programming, Paul Cabana leads creative for all A+E’s non-linear platforms.

Prior to running digital, Cabana was a creative executive with The HISTORY Channel for ten years, rising from EP to Head of Development and Programming for both HISTORY and H2. He co-created the Men Who Built America franchise which has since expanded to a dozen extensions. He has been nominated three times for the Emmy® Award for Outstanding Work in Non-Fiction and is a graduate of Harvard University and NYU’s Stern School of Business.

Alana Calderone Polcsa, Executive Vice President, Brand Development, Brand Strategy and Revenue at Warner Bros., oversees revenue strategy, business development and management of ancillary brand extensions for Warner Bros. Unscripted TV including The Ellen DeGeneres Show and Ellen Digital, creating monetization streams across linear, digital and physical platforms.

Under her leadership, Alana transformed the business into a robust custom media and content group. She has driven the growth of the Ellen Digital as a premium digital destination for brands to reach and influence an audience of 300+ MM. Working closely with the Emmy Award-winning writing, producing, and creative teams at ELLEN, Alana leads the bicoastal integrations, e-commerce and ad sales departments, delivering clients with innovative and effective multi-platform solutions that drive business results.

Alana has architected and negotiated the ELLEN brand’s most influential deals, including the Beats Music partnership and marketing strategy, which launched the music streaming service during Super Bowl XLVIII and secured Ellen DeGeneres her first Super Bowl TV commercial. She also crafted the award-winning Cheerios campaign for One Million Acts of Good and most recently orchestrated a partnership with Spotify to create the platform’s first-ever media video hub.

Focused on new media growth initiatives, Alana plays an integral role in developing unique co-sell, performance and distribution partnerships across all media and platform partners and numerous tech start-ups. She also leads the development of The Ellen DeGeneres Show line extensions spanning to consumer products, publishing, talent, land-based and social gaming, as well as experiential events.


Named one of Adweek’s 2018 Young Influentials, Alana’s strategic management and growth of the team tripled revenues within the last five years and garnered 14 awards in branded entertainment, including four Clio Entertainment Awards. Alana was recently selected for the 2019 Clio Entertainment Awards Television/Streaming Executive Jury.

Alana’s marketing experience began at Unilever in brand management where she held various roles including global product innovation and equity management for North America, Europe and Latin America on Dove brands. Additionally, she oversaw the strategy, innovation and new media communication development for the Caress Brand.

Alana holds a Bachelor of Science degree in marketing from The Pennsylvania State University. A native of Los Angeles, Alana is based in Los Angeles with her husband and two daughters.

Rishi leads Global Gaming Partnerships at Twitter, bringing exceptional content from global gaming leagues, esports franchises, publishers & developers, and gamers to fans in real-time, while driving reach and revenue for these strategic partners and Twitter. Since joining Twitter, Rishi has launched brand new content partnerships with developers like Activision Blizzard & Riot Games, world-renowned gaming events like The Game Awards, and some of the world’s most popular esports organizations including FaZe Clan & 100Thieves. Prior to joining Twitter in 2017, he spent time at Mobcrush, where he grew the mobile games live streaming platform to over 1 million monthly active users within 30 days of launch. As the vice president of content partnerships at Major League Gaming, he helped launch the company’s live streaming platform, MLG.tv, and led strategic partnerships with top publishers, including Valve, to create programs like the first North American CS:GO major, MLG Columbus. Prior to Major League Gaming, Rishi focused his career on elevating the visibility of the gaming community at notable organizations such as Machinima and Gunnar Optiks. Rishi is a graduate of the University of California, San Diego, where he received a BA in Economics. Follow him on Twitter at @RdotChadha.

Omar Chaparro is one of the most revered and popular Latin actors and comedians in Mexico and the U.S. His loyal fanbase of almost 10 million followers on digital and social media points to his on-screen likeability, witty and humorous takes on life, and relatable nature. His breakout roles on the American screen include Michael Berry’s film “Stuck” and “Show Dogs,” directed by Raja Gosnell and starring Will Arnett and Natasha Lyonne. Chaparro also appeared in “Pokemon Detective Pikachu,” sharing credits with Ryan Reynolds and Justice Smith. Some of his biggest film projects include “Compadres,” which was directed by Enrique Begne and starred Eric Roberts and Kevin Pollak, Netflix’s original film “Como Caido del Cielo,” and “No Manches Frida,” where he shared screen credits with Martha Higareda. “No Manches Frida,” to date, is still one of Mexico’s top five grossing films.

John Chleborad is Head of Global Advertising & Social Media at Accenture. In this role, he oversees paid media strategies, creative, and social media. This past year, John oversaw the advertising launch of the ‘Let There Be Change’ campaign, Accenture’s biggest brand move in a decade. The campaign created 150+ deliverables, included a remote 6-day shoot during the pandemic for the new anthem spot, and an array of new activations including TV, social media, and out of home.

John joined Accenture in 2016 after a long agency career spanning storied agencies BBDO, Mullen, Barton F Graf, leading accounts in the technology. Originally from Iowa, John is hard wired with an inherent Midwestern work ethic and roll-up the sleeves mentality. This has served him well throughout his unique career path from Des Moines to Nashville to Winston-Salem to Atlanta to New York City.

He lives and (currently) works in Jersey City, NJ with his wife Ashtia, and children, Hudson (2yrs) & Caroline (7 months).

Agnes Chu joins Condé Nast from the Walt Disney Company. She joined Disney in 2008, and most recently served as SVP of content for Disney+. In this role, Chu commissioned an original slate of programming, featuring series, feature films and short form content for the service, receiving 19 Emmy nominations in its first year. She also led the Originals teams for scripted, unscripted and animation, working closely with Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm and NatGeo. Chu has been featured on The Hollywood Reporter’s 100 Most Powerful Women in Entertainment. Prior to joining Disney, she worked in documentary production, including the Oscar-nominated “Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room”.

With over 25 years in the business, both in London and New York, Yusuf has worked across most flavors of planning and strategy making him one of the few genuine hybrid strategists. His experience spans a number of the world’s leading corporations including Microsoft, BMW, Samsung, Kimberley-Clark, Kraft and Verizon.



He is currently EVP, Client Strategy and Insights at NBCUniversal where he leads a team of strategists, researchers, data strategists and analysts. Prior to NBCUniversal, Yusuf was Global Chief Strategy Officer of VMLY&R where he led the strategy discipline across its 75 locations around the globe. Yusuf has also led strategy at McCann New York and had previous stints at DDB London, JWT New York and Naked Communications.



His work has been recognized by the IPA, Effies, the Jay Chiat Awards, Cannes and the Marketing Effectiveness Awards. He’s a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and previous chair of 4As Strategy Committee and non-executive board member of OFSTED.

Allison Clarke is currently the Head of Agency Development at VIZIO. She is a strategic leader with an extensive background in the media industry, including sales management roles with AMC Networks and NBC Universal. Most recently she was SVP, Ad Sales and Partnerships, AMCN, overseeing BBCA, WE tv, and IFC networks. She also led upfront negotiations across agency holding companies for the AMCN Portfolio of networks, including AMC and Sundance Channel across all platforms – linear, digital, social, VOD, events.

She previously held several roles at NBC Universal across various networks – USA, SyFy, Bravo and started her career at MTV Networks.

Sara Clemens is the Chief Operating Officer at Twitch, leading the commercial, operations, and go-to-market teams globally. Sara has over 20 years of leadership experience in the broadcast, technology, and entertainment industries. Prior to Twitch, Sara was COO at Pandora, where she worked to transform the internet radio pioneer into a personalized music service connecting artists directly with fans at scale. Sara’s efforts to build strong relationships with the music industry placed her on Billboard’s list of Most Powerful Women in Music in 2015 and 2016. Prior to Pandora, Sara was on the executive team at LinkedIn, responsible for corporate development and new ventures, and led the company’s successful entry into the China market. Sara spent five years in a range of leadership positions at Microsoft, including leading international expansion, business operations, and new ventures for Xbox, and was a founding member of the team that created HoloLens, Microsoft’s Augmented Reality headset. Sara has extensive experience building consumer internet businesses across a broad range of international markets, including EMEA, LATAM, and the Greater Asia Pacific. She holds an MA with honors from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand.

David Cohen joined IAB in April 2020 as President and was named Chief Executive Officer in September 2020. Cohen is a widely respected advertising agency leader who, prior to IAB, served as President, North America for MAGNA, Interpublic Group’s (IPG) centralized media intelligence, investment, and innovation arm. In this role, Cohen was responsible for more than $20 billion in media spend. During his tenure, Cohen structured and executed large global transactions on behalf of IPG and its clients, with such major IAB member companies as Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Spotify, Twitter, and Verizon Media.

Prior to MAGNA, Cohen served as Chief Investment Officer of UM, ensuring that digital innovation, data, and technology acumen flowed throughout the agency to drive performance. From 2001 to 2011, Cohen served in critical, transformational roles at UM during the explosive growth of digital advertising, including Chief Media Officer, Chief Digital Officer, and Executive Vice President, U.S. Director of Digital Communications. In the late 1990’s, Cohen was responsible for launching and building IPG’s digital practice.

Cohen has a long history of working with trade organizations including IAB and 4As, where he served as chairman of the Interactive Marketing Committee from 2009-2013. He has also been instrumental in initiating several vital industry-wide programs, including the Future of Television, facilitated by EY. Cohen is a Queens native, with a bachelor’s degree in communications from Adelphi University. He was recognized by Adweek as a “Media All Star” and was part of the “Adweek 50” in 2012.

In 2016, David was elected to the Board of Directors of Partnership with Children a non-profit whose mission is to strengthen the emotional, social, and cognitive skills of vulnerable children in New York City to help them succeed in school, society, and life.

David enjoys spending time with his wife and two teenage daughters. A self-described gadget-geek and sometimes fitness fanatic – he ran the NYC Marathon in 2014 and 2019 and Boston Marathon in 2016.

Charlie Collier was named Chief Executive Officer, FOX Entertainment, in October 2018. He is responsible for driving the overall creative and business vision for FOX Entertainment – including the FOX network; its in-house unscripted studio, FOX Alternative Entertainment; animation studio Bento Box Entertainment; and free streaming platform Tubi – supervising all content development, creating new strategies for growth and overseeing all of its operations.

Under Collier’s supervision, FOX won the 2019-2020 broadcast season for the first time in eight years and was the only major network to post year-over-year growth among Adults 18-49 and Total Viewers. FOX also ranked as the #1 network in Fall 2020, marking the first time ever FOX won back-to-back Falls.

Collier’s FOX Entertainment also houses FOX Alternative Entertainment, the company’s studio that produces such hit programs as THE MASKED SINGER and I CAN SEE YOUR VOICE, and all-new series THE MASKED DANCER, NAME THAT TUNE and the upcoming series DOMINO MASTERS, which will premiere in the 2021-22 season; the
award-winning animation studio Bento Box Entertainment, which produces content for FOX, including the Emmy
Award-winning hit BOB’S BURGERS, DUNCANVILLE and the new series THE GREAT NORTH and HOUSEBROKEN, as well as programming for other broadcast, streaming and cable platforms; and Tubi, FOX Entertainment’s fast-growing ad-supported video-on-demand (AVOD) streaming service, featuring more than 30,000 movies and television series, and news content that’s available in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Australia. Additionally, as an integral member of FOX Corporation’s senior leadership team, Collier contributes to the parent company’s growth and continued evolution.

Prior to joining FOX, Collier was President and General Manager of AMC, SundanceTV and AMC Studios, overseeing the creative and business operations of all three divisions. He joined AMC as General Manager in 2006 and was promoted to President in 2008; he added the SundanceTV post to his responsibilities in April 2015. During his 12-year tenure, Collier transformed AMC into one of the most relevant and heralded original programming brands and businesses in television. Under Collier’s leadership, AMC became a global entertainment powerhouse, introducing cultural and critical hits, including the Emmy® Award-winning “Mad Men” and “Breaking Bad”; “The Walking Dead,” the highest-rated basic cable program in the history of television; and “Fear the Walking Dead” and “Better Call Saul,” which stand as the #1 and #2 top cable series premieres of all time in Live + Same Day viewing.

Collier joined AMC in 2006 from Court TV (now truTV) with a track record of driving brand, revenue and business growth. At Court TV, he served as executive vice president and general manager of advertising sales, where he more than quintupled its revenue from national ad sales, dramatically improved its positioning within the industry and played a key role in broadening the network’s appeal beyond courtroom programming and into entertainment programming in the investigation genre.

Prior to Court TV, Collier held roles at Oxygen Media, A+E Networks and TeleRep.

In 2019, Collier was named to The Hollywood Reporter 100, the publication’s list of the most powerful people in entertainment. That same year, he was featured in Variety’s third annual edition of Variety500, an index of the 500 most influential business leaders shaping the global media industry. Given his prior contributions to the cable industry and his current oversight of FOX Entertainment’s ad-supported streaming platform, Tubi, Collier also was among 2020’s Cablefax 100, which recognizes leaders in the multi-platform space.

Among his civic activities, Collier serves on the board of CancerCare, an organization devoted to helping not just cancer patients, but those around them touched by the disease. Additionally, he sits on the boards of The Paley Center for Media, the American Film Institute and the NCTA – The Internet & Television Association. He is married and has four children.

Katie Couric (@katiecouric) is an award-winning journalist, New York Times best-selling author and a co- founder of Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C). Since its launch in 2008, Stand Up To Cancer has raised more than $600 million to support cutting edge collaborative science and its research has contributed to six new FDA approved therapies.

In 2017, she founded Katie Couric Media (KCM), which has developed a number of media projects, including a daily newsletter, a podcast, digital video series and several documentaries. KCM works with purpose driven brands to create premium content that addresses important social issues like gender equality, environmental sustainability and mental health.

Previous documentaries produced by KCM include: America Inside Out with Katie Couric , a six-part series for National Geographic; Gender Revolution: A Journey with Katie Couric , for National Geographic; Under the Gun , which aired on EPIX; and Fed Up , available on iTunes, Amazon and YouTube. Couric was also the executive producer of Unbelievable on Netflix and is developing other scripted projects.

Couric was the first woman to solo anchor a network evening newscast, serving as anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News from 2006 to 2011 following 15-years as co-anchor of NBC’s Today show. She also hosted a syndicated show and served as the Yahoo Global News Anchor until 2017. Most recently, Couric was the first guest host of the iconic game show, Jeopardy!.

She has won a duPont-Columbia, a Peabody, two Edward R. Murrows, a Walter Cronkite Award, and multiple Emmys. She was twice named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people and was a Glamour Magazine woman of the year three times. She has also received numerous awards for her cancer advocacy work; honored by both the Harvard and Columbia schools of public health, the American Cancer Society and The American Association of Cancer Researchers.

In addition to writing The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives, Couric’s memoir will be published in the Fall of 2021.

J.D. Crowley is the Chief Digital Officer at Audacy, the #1 creator of original, premium audio content representing an audio universe of discovery and connection. Home to the industry’s most influential collection of broadcast and digital content, podcasts and premium live experiences, Audacy engages millions of consumers each month.

In this role, Crowley oversees and leads the development of strategy for the company’s digital portfolio, which includes the fastest growing digital audio app in the United States (formerly RADIO.COM) with over 750 stations and thousands of podcasts. Crowley also oversees Audacy’s Podcast Network, which includes Cadence13, an industry leader in podcast creation and distribution, and Pineapple Street Media, an award-winning, renowned independent producer of top-rated podcast content.

Prior to joining Audacy (then Entercom), Crowley held various roles at CBS Corporation, including Executive Vice President of Digital for CBS Radio and the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Digital Media for CBS Television Distribution. One of his chief accomplishments was leading the relaunch of digital and newsgathering efforts at “Entertainment Tonight,” growing ET online from No. 42 to No. 1 in the entertainment news category in the U.S. and No. 1 in the video category for more than 18 consecutive months. He also served as the Senior Vice President of CBS Brand Studio, an in-house digital video and branded content studio he helped launch that developed, produced and distributed original content for dozens of leading national brand advertisers and streaming services, as well as many of the company’s owned and operated television brands across the entertainment, news, lifestyle, and health and wellness categories.

Previously, Crowley served as the Senior Supervising Producer at “Entertainment Tonight” and “The Insider,” first for Paramount Domestic Television, and then for CBS. He began his career as a producer at KCAL/KCBS Television in Los Angeles, and has developed and produced programming across genres from daytime talk shows to news magazines, late-night television, and reality, investigative, and live events formats.

Crowley has received multiple Emmy, Telly, Associated Press and Radio and Television News Awards. In 2010, he was named one of the “13 Under 30 Next-Generation Marketing Executives” by PromaxBDA.

Crowley earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in cinema and television and a Bachelor of Science degree in visual anthropology from the University of Southern California.

Jessica Daigle is the Vice President of Sales Intelligence for TEGNA Media. She is focused on using data to help TEGNA grow revenue. In this role she is responsible for TEGNA’s efforts and offerings in TV and OTT Attribution, Spot TV Pricing and Sales Analytics.

Before joining TEGNA, she was the SVP of Analytics & Consumer Marketing for Remedy Health Media, where she was responsible for the measurement and audience development strategy for the company’s network of health information websites. Prior to Remedy, Jessica ran an analytics team at Media Contacts, part of Havas Digital.

Jessica has been recognized by NYC Television Week’s 40 under 40 in 2019. She regularly participates in industry conferences and events, offering her insights and expertise in analytics and attribution.

Amanda Dameron is Chief Digital Content Officer of Meredith Corporation’s National Media Group, the leading multi-platform media company focused on women – reaching 95% of all U.S. women and more than 150 million digital consumers every month. Dameron oversees the digital operations, content and strategy for the company’s 40+ category-leading brands, including PEOPLE, Better Homes & Gardens, Allrecipes, Southern Living and REAL SIMPLE.

Dameron has spent her career in digital and print media, driving innovative content creation and massive audience growth at every turn. Prior to joining Meredith, she was Head of Content at Tastemade, where she played a pivotal role in growing the company’s global audience to more than 300 million monthly viewers on its digital, mobile and television platforms, streaming 2.5 billion views each month. She also launched a Home and Design vertical for the video media company. Dameron also served as Editor-in-Chief and EVP of Content at Dwell. She began her career as a staff editor at Architectural Digest and Western Interiors and Design.

An expert on the connections among digital media and home renovation, real estate, entertainment, cooking and decorating, Dameron is a frequent guest on numerous cable and streaming networks. She is on the Board of CIDA, a federally funded nonprofit that affirms interior design and architecture curriculum standards for universities in North America.

Subrata De is EVP for VICE News, overseeing staff and content for the media company’s news division. She is also the senior executive producer for the
weekly newsmagazine, VICE on Showtime. The Emmy-nominated series delivers immersive reporting from the world’s conflict zones and regions in transition, including the US, as it confronts an ongoing racial reckoning. The pandemic has found the series adapting, but not reducing its deployments, which have continued throughout the globe. Subrata was previously executive producer and showrunner for Investigations by VICE, an innovative documentary series on Hulu. She first joined the media company as executive producer for VICE on HBO, the Emmy-award winning weekly best known for its on-the-ground reportage in embattled regions such as Yemen and Syria, and for its non-traditional approach to storytelling.

Before joining VICE Media Group, Subrata was a VP at ABC News, with oversight of domestic, foreign, and digital newsgathering. She also spent several years at MSNBC as the executive producer of “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” and at NBC News as a senior producer, reporting and producing Nightly News broadcasts from across the US and in over 20 countries
including Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and Mali.

Subrata got her start in journalism as a radio reporter for the CBC in northern Ontario. She’s the recipient of many industry awards, including three duPont’s, the Peabody, six Emmys, the RFK Journalism Award and a Gracie for Individual Achievement.

Chris Denson is an award-winning innovator, marketer, recovering comedian, and host of the Innovation Crush podcast, with over 750,000 subscribers around the world. Having been a guest speaker, curator, and attendee at 100’s of industry events, Chris is an expert at uncovering the best thinking and commonalities across a diverse array of cultures.

As EVP of Digital Investment and Partnerships at Publicis Media Exchange (PMX), Hayley Diamond has the important task of representing the needs of all Publicis Groupe clients to the marketplace. She manages Publicis Media’s digital components at the annual TV Upfronts, helping clients shift their linear investment into digital platforms. Whether it’s key investment opportunities, omnichannel partnerships with trusted premium publishers and networks, or ensuring clients have the right access to partner offerings including data, unique innovation opportunities, optimum commercials and more, Diamond does it all.

Diamond has brought new, innovative ad offerings to clients such as Kellogg’s, Georgia-Pacific, Maker’s Mark, Chase and Wingstop, and has negotiated Publicis Groupe as the exclusive partner for a variety of opportunities, including Hulu’s Binge Ads product. She has continued to educate clients on non-linear offerings, helping clients move to true, cross-screen experiences to reach broader audiences spanning the pharma, CPG, auto, retail, tech and liquor industries.

She also proactively works with key partners in the TV and video space to ensure clients understand and are able to take advantage of the benefits of true, data-driven, targeted delivery on premium CTV inventory. Through this collaborative effort, she enables better measurement, smarter retargeting, access to premium inventory and delivery of incremental reach – modernizing the approach to TV advertising and guiding clients with non-linear ad platforms.

Diamond joined Publicis Media in 2007 as a Media Associate at Starcom and subsequently rose through the ranks in roles spanning digital strategy and marketplace solutions. In her most recent position as Head of Digital Strategy and Marketplace Solutions at Spark Foundry, Diamond oversaw and developed the agency’s partnerships within the digital marketplace. She worked closely with investment leads to ensure a holistic marketplace strategy and approach.

As an established industry leader living in New York City, Diamond can be found exploring the city, practicing yoga or eating at her favorite sushi spot when she’s not in the office.

Melanie DiBiasio has been with Ocean Spray for 10 years, helping the farmer-owned cooperative bring its beloved, 90-year-old brand to life across social and digital media in an authentic, engaging and inspiring way. She leads the Ocean Spray digital transformation strategy by helping to implement new tools and technology to enable the brand to create unique and personalized communications with consumers across all facets of digital marketing. Outside of Ocean Spray, Melanie is a cycling instructor and amateur baker and cake decorator.

Marie Donoghue is Vice President of Global Sports Video at Amazon, overseeing Amazon’s global sports content business. In her role, Marie leads Amazon’s worldwide sports strategy, identifying and evaluating new opportunities, and enabling customers to access live and on-demand sports content, on hundreds of devices, in over 240 countries and territories.

Over the course of her career, Donoghue has received numerous recognitions, including “Most Powerful Women in Sports” (AdWeek), “Most Influential People in Sports” (Sports Business Journal), “Power 100 Women in Entertainment” (The Hollywood Reporter), “New York Impact List” (Variety), “The Most Powerful Women in Cable”(CableFax: The Magazine), “Women to Watch” (Advertising Age and Advertising Women of New York) and “Game Changers” (Sports Business Journal).

Prior to joining Amazon, Donoghue was at ESPN for more than 18 years, where she most recently served as Executive Vice President, Global Business and Content Strategy, leading the ongoing development and implementation of ESPN’s enterprise-wide business and content strategy. She also headed ESPN’s Business Affairs, Business Development and Partnership groups (including gaming partnerships).

Donoghue earned a J.D. degree from Columbia University and a B.A. from Columbia College.

Pamela Drucker Mann oversees all ad sales and ad product strategies globally, and works with commercial leads across the company’s 31 markets to drive overall ad, agency and B2B revenue. She has played an integral part in leveraging brands and scale to develop new revenue streams and opportunities for advertisers. Drucker Mann has twice been named to Adweek’s list of the top 50 executives, and is an Advertising Age Media Maven, 2015 Advertising Age Publishing Executive of the Year, an Adweek First Mover and a 2016 Folio Top Women in Media in the Entrepreneur category.

Mark Eamer is a Vice President OTT, IMDb TV, and Brand Advertising at Amazon Advertising, where his efforts are focused on leading Amazon’s ad-supported, free, streaming video business. Mark previously lead Prime Video US, where he ran a team that launched several award-winning and hit shows, owned the marketing component for Prime Video’s global launch, and built several automated marketing programs. He is an expert in streaming video services, advertising, marketing, and building outstanding products. Prior to joining Amazon, Mark was the Director of Marketing and Business Development at Zillow. He holds a degree in engineering from Queen’s University, and earned an MBA from the University of Michigan.

Julie leads DV’s commercial organization worldwide. This includes driving integration and alignment between all revenue-related functions, including sales, customer support, pricing and revenue management. Prior to DV, Julie was most recently Global Client Partner at Google, where she spearheaded global partnership and growth strategy for some of Google’s largest global clients, including Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, General Motors, Ford and Fiat Chrysler. Prior to Google, Julie led all of the centralized marketing for North America at Procter & Gamble, including media planning and buying, sports marketing, branded entertainment and retailer marketing — leading over 400 employees and 1,000-plus agency personnel.

Chris is Head of Creative Lab North America, TikTok’s culture and innovation consultancy for brands and creative companies. Prior to TikTok, Chris was Global Executive Creative Director at Ridley Scott Creative Group, and worked as a creative director, storyteller, producer, and marketer — generating multi-platform entertainment content for Amazon, Netflix, 20th Century Fox, and The Walt Disney Company.

As Head of Brand Partnerships at Hello-Sunshine, Zoë’s role is to create and oversee strategic partnerships and content opportunities across the company’s film, television, digital and direct-to-consumer business. Throughout her career at companies like Conde Nast and WME, she developed and managed a wide range of branded entertainment programs and talent partnerships for brands such as Coca Cola, American Express, Polaroid, Pernod-Ricard and Evian.

Before joining Hello Sunshine, Zoe oversaw all film and television integration/promotional campaigns and licensing for both The Weinstein Company and Dimension Films. She also managed and grew the Lexus Short Film series into a global film marketing program, winning a Cannes Lion in 2017.

Trevor Fellows serves as Executive Vice President, Digital Sales and Strategy for NBCUniversal and oversees the monetization of the company’s digital advertising inventory and partnerships. Based in New York, Fellows also works closely with NBCUniversal’s Digital Enterprises team on a variety of digital opportunities across the portfolio. 

Previously, Fellows served as Executive Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer of the Wall Street Journal from 2013-2017 and as Head of Global Advertising Sales for Bloomberg, LP, from 2000-2013.  

Prior to his role at Bloomberg, LP, Fellows served a variety of senior publishing roles based in London. Additionally, he served four years in the British Army’s Parachute Regiment. Currently, Fellows resides in Old Greenwich, CT with his spouse and two children. 

Cory Ferreira is the Senior Director of Product Marketing for Oracle Advertising. Before joining Oracle, Cory’s career spanned from client-side, as a brand manager for a global education technology company, to client consulting for Nielsen Catalina Solutions, to sales leadership at the innovative analytics company Affinity Answers. Today, Cory lives in London, where he has led marketing strategy and programs aimed at growing Oracle Advertising’s business around the globe for the previous two years.

Tom Fochetta is a highly experienced business leader and media veteran with more than 20 years of digital advertising experience. He currently serves as Senior Vice President of Samsung Ads, a leading provider of Advanced TV advertising solutions. Tom has a proven track record for spearheading high-impact sales teams at world-class media, commerce and hardware companies, including Google and Amazon. As the founding executive of Samsung Ads (2015), Tom was tasked with establishing its global ad sales platform. Among his responsibilities, he leads the Americas’ ad sales, client solutions, and operations, and global marketing team, and oversees the Company’s advertising platform across Samsung’s Smart TV and digital ecosystem. Tom reports up into Samsung’s Corporate Offices in South Korea and frequently travels to Seoul to inform Executive Leadership of Market Conditions and to seek further investment.

Armed with a deep understanding of viewership preferences and Smart TV usage, Samsung Ads is a leader in Advanced TV, bringing innovation to advertising and empowering more efficient and effective media strategies. Under Tom’s leadership, Samsung Ads has achieved significant year-over-year growth over the past five years. Through acquisitions, technology enhancements and the development of an end- to-end tech stack, Tom has opened up a new world of opportunities for the sales team and their clients. In fact, Tom championed the acquisition of AdGear and was part of the Deal Team from Samsung’s M&A arm to acquire the foundation of a fully owned and operated tech stack. Today, Samsung Ads works with Fortune 500 advertisers selling and servicing ads natively, across over-the-top (OTT)/Connected TV, display and mobile, leveraging its unique audience platform. Tom is an outspoken advocate for the Advanced TV industry.

He has taken an active role with the interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), sitting on its Board of Directors, leading as Co-Chair for the CRO Council, and participating in its Advanced TV Committee, along with many other industry associations. Tom frequently participates in industry conferences to help educate the industry on Connected TV and evangelize Samsung Ads’ platform. Tom holds an MBA and a Bachelor of Science in Marketing and Management from St. John’s University. He lives on Long Island with his wife and two sons.”

Lesli Foster is an award-winning journalist and mainstay of Washington, D.C. news as a weeknight anchor for WUSA9 evening broadcasts Monday through Friday. She is also part of the WUSA9’s Special Assignment Unit – leading coverage that aims to tackle community issues. Lesli joined the station in 2001 and has covered the major events of our times across the area.

Known for her warmth, and ability to share impactful stories that have an effect on our wider community, she thrives on work that touches everyday living. While her work has allowed her to interview many local, national and international luminaries, she most enjoys talking with ordinary people who use their lives to do extraordinary things.

Her career work has been recognized with Emmy, Edward R. Murrow and Associated Press Awards. Prior to joining WUSA9, Lesli reported for WBAL-TV in Baltimore, where Baltimore’s City Paper named her Best TV News Personality. Her career began in her native Michigan, where she was a weekend anchor and reporter for WEYI-TV, an NBC affiliate outside of Flint, Michigan.

Lesli graduated from Howard University and is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. She gives her energy to many causes throughout the metropolitan Washington, D.C. region, and in 2012 Lesli started an event called “Girlfriends Give Back” which helps raise funds for a different small, but impactful charity from the area each year.

Journalism, she says, is her life’s work, and feeds her drive to make a difference in the lives of people. In her personal time, Lesli enjoys family life being a wife and mom with her husband and daughter.

Laura Froelich leads U.S. Content Partnerships at Twitter, bringing exceptional content from Sports, News and Entertainment partners to the most valuable audiences when they’re most receptive while driving business results for these strategic partners and Twitter. Prior to joining Twitter in February 2014, she spent five years at CBS Interactive devising product marketing and monetization strategies for premium sports content including NCAA March Madness, NFL and college football, The Masters, PGA Tour golf, as well as the suite of fantasy games from CBSSports.com. Her efforts led to multiple years of record-setting revenues for the properties. Prior to CBS, Laura focused her career in sales and marketing at such notable publishers as CNET, Ziff-Davis, and Condé Nast. Laura is a graduate of Brown University where she received a BA in International Relations. Follow her on Twitter at @laurafrofro.

David Gandler is co-founder and CEO of fuboTV, the live TV streaming platform that is transforming how people watch sports, news and entertainment. Under David’s leadership, fuboTV has quickly evolved into a leading virtual MVPD with a focus on innovation.

fuboTV launched in 2015 as a streaming soccer service and today is a sports-first cable TV replacement for the entire family. The company listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol “FUBO” in October 2020.

Popular with cord-cutters, fuboTV is consistently first to market across a number of areas including product and technology (“firsts” include 4K streams, Multiview on Apple TV and live TV recommendations), advertising (launched dynamic ad insertion in January 2018 ahead of most competitors) and content (distribution agreements with 100+ channels and 770+ local network stations in 99% of the U.S.; its own fubo Sports Network with original programming). Forbes named fuboTV to its Next Billion Dollar Startups list in 2019.

Prior to founding fuboTV, David had a prolific advertising career with more than 15 years of video sales in local broadcast and cable TV within both the general and Hispanic market, including at Scripps Networks Interactive, Time Warner Cable Media Sales and NBCUniversal’s Telemundo Media.

David has been named among Goldman Sachs’ 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs (2019), Variety’s Dealmakers (2020, 2019) and Broadcasting & Cable’s Power 100 (2017). He is frequently quoted in major publications and has been a featured speaker at leading industry and banking conferences.

Adam is a decisive sales executive with leadership experience driving business transformation and organizational change on behalf of leading media companies. A noted industry expert, he has a strong reputation for seizing strategic opportunities to develop client-centric product solutions that connect brands to audiences across advanced TV, digital and traditional broadcast/cable platforms.


Currently, Adam serves as Vice President of Network Partnerships and Head of Addressable for VIZIO. In this role, Adam leads Project OAR, the consortium of America’s leading media companies created to establish a common technology for dynamic, addressable advertising management for television.


Most recently, Adam was Vice President of AMCN Agility, the Data Solutions Sales team for AMC Networks.


Prior to joining AMC Networks, Adam was Vice President, Media Sales & Analytics for DISH Network, where he led the company’s media sales division, inclusive of all addressable, interactive, programmatic, and OTT initiatives. Before DISH, Adam served as Executive Director of Digital Media and Interactive Advertising Sales for Game Show Network, where he led the creation and subsequent sale of strategic, cross-platform marketing solutions. He began his career at CBS in the New Media division and held various advertising sales roles with increasing responsibility at TechTV and Comcast Networks.


Adam serves on the board of directors for the IRTS Foundation, an organization with a focus on building future media leaders. He received dual bachelor’s degrees in Journalism and Psychology from Rutgers University, and a master’s degree in Broadcast Journalism from Syracuse University. Adam received a certification from Harvard Business School’s Cable Executive Management Program, CTAM, as well as IAB’s Data 360 and Digital Media certifications. He resides in New Jersey with his wife and their two children.

Renée Elise Goldsberry is a multi-hyphenate actress and singer who has delivered award winning performances both on Broadway and the screen.

Best known for her role as Angelica Schuyler in the musical phenomenon HAMILTON, which received rave reviews across the board and has become a cultural touchstone for the ages. Renée’s performance earned her a Tony Award, Grammy Award, Drama Desk Award, and Lucille Lortel Award.

Coming up, Renee can be seen starring in Tina Fey’s new series for Peacock, GIRLS5EVA. Renée starred in the A24’s critical darling, WAVES, opposite Sterling K. Brown and in the hit Netflix series ALTERED CARBON. She could also be seen on NBC’s musical sensation, ZOEY’S EXTRAORDINARY PLAYLIST in addition to lending her voice to bring characters to life on the Netflix Animated series FAST & FURIOUS SPY RACERS and CENTAURWORLD. Other highlights from her film and television career include her work on DOCUMENTARY NOW’S cult favorite “Original Cast Album: Co-Op”, THE GOOD WIFE, THE HOUSE WITH A CLOCK IN ITS WALLS, THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS, THE FOLLOWING, THE GET DOWN, ALL ABOUT YOU, EVIL and her creation of the beloved character, Evangeline Williamson, on ABC’S ONE LIFE TO LIVE, for which she received two Daytime Emmy nominations and two NAACP Image Award nominations.

Renée’s appearances on stage include her Outer Critics Circle Award nominated performance opposite Frances McDormand in the play GOOD PEOPLE, and the original Broadway version of THE COLOR PURPLE. She made her Broadway debut as Nala in THE LION KING, and her performance as Mimi in Broadway’s closing cast of RENT was immortalized in film! Off-broadway, Renée’s performance as Sylvia in the Public Theater’s production of TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA for their Shakespeare in the Park series garnered her across the board rave reviews.

Sheryl Goldstein is the Executive Vice President, Chief Industry Growth Officer at the IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau). In her role, she oversees engaging the IAB’s 650+ members across all of the IAB’s vast initiatives, activities and thought leadership programs. Under Sheryl’s watch are the Member Engagement, Centers of Excellence, Research and L&D teams. She also spearheads talent development, diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and runs the IAB CRO Council.

Sheryl Goldstein is a “net vet” with over 20 years of driving meaningful revenue growth through consultative selling in the dynamic digital landscape (Yahoo, AOL, About.com). She is adept at building successful teams, developing go-to-market strategies and gaining consensus across key stakeholders. Her background includes a wide variety of digital media platforms and technologies and numerous leadership roles.

In addition to her experience as a sales leader, Sheryl brings years of talent development and training to her role and is committed to making the digital media landscape a great industry for diverse talent to thrive and have a long and exciting career.

Sheryl is a current board member for 212NYC, Makers and was a past Board member of She Runs It. She serves on the Rutgers Business School Advisory Board for Marketing and is helping RBS craft a digital marketing graduate program. In addition, she has served on Boards and Committees for the NY Ad Club, Women in Communications, Inc. and the IAB and is a member of Chief. She is an award-winning sales leader (Yahoo Accelerator Award, AOL Best Media Partner presented by Verizon, AOL Presidents Club, AWNY Crystal Award Winner).

Sheryl is a graduate of Syracuse University Newhouse School and lives in New Jersey with her partner Cindy and dogs Pancho and Camden. On the weekends, you can catch her on the pickleball court or riding around the Jersey Shore on her new electric bike. Her daughter Sarah-Jaana lives in the Boston area with her husband Michael.

Jeremi Gorman is Chief Business Officer at Snap Inc., leading global sales, agency partnerships, revenue operations, and creative strategy. Jeremi joined Snap in November 2018 from Amazon, where she oversaw business intelligence and analytics, and the international expansion of Amazon’s advertising business. Jeremi has spent her career in digital media, serving in businesses roles at Yahoo, Variety Magazine, and Monster.com. Jeremi holds a Bachelor’s degree from UCLA.

Adam Greenberg is the Global Lead for Search & Web Partnerships at Google, where he works to launch new products in the media, commerce, and creator space. Prior to Google, Adam worked in startups and for the Government of Spain.

Michael Guth is Senior Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer of Spectrum Reach, the advertising sales business of Charter. He oversees brand marketing, communications, creative services, and research on a national and local level.

Mr. Guth joined Charter from Madison Square Garden (MSG) where he spent a combined 10 years and most recently served as General Manager, Account Management. In this role, he led strategic and creative partnerships with corporate sponsors across all team, venue, and media assets. He served eight years at MSG as Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing, where he led marketing efforts for the New York Knicks (NBA), Rangers (NHL), and Liberty (WNBA), and oversaw sales and marketing for MSG Networks.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Guth served as Chief Operating Officer of the Opry Entertainment Group, Senior Vice President for Time Warner Global Marketing, and senior brand management roles at The Coca-Cola Company.

He received his M.B.A. and B.A. from Harvard.

Vanessa is the Director of Snap Originals at Snap Inc. Under her leadership, the Shows format launched on Snapchat in 2016. She oversees all Snap’s Originals development, production and operations. Vanessa was named to Variety’s 2017 Hollywood’s New Leaders in Digital, featuring prominent up-and-comers in the entertainment business, as well as Fortune’s 2020 40 Under 40.

Jeremy is responsible for accelerating the North American growth and revenue plans for Channel Factory and advancing the company’s sales approach, strategy, and new revenue streams. He came from Amobee, where he served as SVP of Sales working across North American brands and agencies to consolidate cross channel media activation through programmatic solutions. Prior to Amobee, Haft helped build and scale businesses, transform sales strategies and amplify revenue growth for Viant, Visible Measures, Lotame, and MediaPost. Jeremy lives in New Jersey and in his spare time he enjoys traveling to tropical locations, cooking feasts with friends, and any new fitness trend he can get his hands on.

As Chief Digital Officer, Cory Haik focuses on global audience growth and development, platform partnerships and digital product innovation. With a journalism career spanning nearly two decades, Cory sits at the intersection between news, digital, and business.

She is passionate about the creative development of cutting-edge storytelling and is also well-versed in the arenas of advertising, market research, product, technology and the newsroom. Since joining VICE in May 2019, Cory implemented a major global restructure consolidating Vice’s international digital teams, working across 35 different territories and 29 wholly-owned international bureaus each operating on a regional basis, under a single, global editorial and operational structure.

Previously, she was publisher of millennial-focused news organization, Mic. Prior to that, Cory worked at The Washington Post helping to grow the Post’s digital platforms while also leading innovative initiatives, pushing the envelope on mobile and places to grow new audiences under Jeff Bezos as Executive Director, Emerging News Products.

She began her digital publishing career following the storms of the Gulf Coast at NOLA.com, site of The Times-Picayune in New Orleans, where she was the Managing Editor. Cory shared in two Pulitzer Prizes with The Times-Picayune for the staff coverage of Hurricane Katrina, for breaking news and public service in 2006. At The Seattle Times she also shared in a staff Pulitzer in 2010 for the coverage of police officer shootings.

Cory received her Master of Arts in Communication Theory from the University of New Orleans and her B.A. in Journalism from Nicholls State University. She lives in Brooklyn with her two children.

Jason Hall is Executive Vice President, Advertising Sales for Estrella Media. In this capacity, he is responsible for leading the company’s TV, radio and digital sales executives in advertising sales strategies.

As Executive Vice President, Advertising Sales, he is responsible for leading advertising sales and creating brand awareness of the company’s multichannel platform, including its television, radio and digital assets. He also oversees the national sales representatives in each of the company’s sales offices including Los Angeles/Burbank, Dallas, Chicago, New York, Atlanta and Miami.

Hall is also responsible for communicating with the company’s O&O’s and affiliated local TV and radio station management, as well as legal, corporate marketing, and client direct/agency contacts. In this role, he also spearheads the vetting and selection of potential television, radio and digital partnerships.

A seasoned television sales executive, Hall comes to Estrella Media with 17 years of senior sales experience at Univision Communications. His last position there was VP of Advertising Sales. Previous positions included Regional VP, National Sales and Director of Sales for Miami, Atlanta and New York, and other national executive sales positions.

Prior to joining Univision, Jason was a local Account Executive for Tribune broadcasting’s WBZL-TV in Miami.

Hall holds a Bachelor of Science, Business Administration and Management from Bryant University. He is based in LBI Media’s New York City office.

With over two decades of media industry experience, Ethan Heftman has been with A+E Networks in various revenue generating and management roles since 2013. He currently serves as SVP, Advanced Advertising & Digital Sales with oversight of sales efforts for direct and programmatic digital, as well as the Precision & Performance suite of data driven linear tools. Ethan’s focus is improving business outcomes for clients via data-driven advertising solutions within A+E’s premium content environments.  Prior to A+E, Heftman held leadership positions at media agencies Initiative, Mediacom, and OMD.

Travis combines the experience of a client-side marketer at a top global brand with extensive Ad Tech experience. He joins VIZIO from Rakuten Marketing where he served as Senior Vice President of Client Services, leading a team of 140 CS professionals managing over 1500 performance marketing clients including leading retailers like Walmart, Macy’s and Sephora. Travis has led multiple award-winning organizations including the 2012 Advertiser Perceptions Highest Rated Media Brand for Advertiser Satisfaction in the U.S. at YuMe and mThink’s Best Affiliate Network for service and innovation each and every year he was at Rakuten.

Prior to moving into Ad Tech in 2010, Travis was at Intel Corporation where he held a number of strategic marketing and media positions, including overseeing all media spending for
consumer campaigns globally.

Travis currently resides in Park City, UT with his wife and two kids. Outside of work you can find him and his family skiing, mountain biking, fly fishing, hiking and generally exploring the outdoors.

Travis holds a BS, Computer Science from Virginia Tech and an MBA from the University of Southern California.

Since 2004, Penske Media Corporation (PMC) has become one of the world’s largest media brands— dominating coverage on the cultural passion points consumers love: entertainment, music, fashion and beauty, art, tech, sports and more.

Our growing portfolio of iconic titles includes Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Rolling Stone, Billboard, Vibe, SHE Media, Robb Report, WWD and many others. Penske Media is a pioneer in digital media and a platform innovator, reaching viewers on every type of screen—as well as through rich, interactive live activations, made stronger by our newest partnership with premier creative and innovation festival, SXSW.

Casey Hurbis is the Chief Marketing Officer of Rocket Mortgage. He oversees all marketing initiatives while driving new, innovative strategies to captivate the audience of the nation’s largest and most trusted mortgage lender. To achieve these goals, Casey leads a group of more than 300 team members who make up Detroit’s premier in-house marketing agency.

Under Casey’s leadership, Rocket Mortgage launched two Super Bowl commercials, both starring comedic powerhouse Tracy Morgan, showing why “certain is better.” The ads claimed the top two positions on USA Today’s Ad Meter, the leading ranking platform for Super Bowl spots. This came one year after unveiling the highly lauded Super Bowl commercial starring Hollywood A-lister Jason Momoa, which took fifth place on Ad Meter. In 2020, his team also announced an exclusive multi-year partnership with the NFL, making Rocket Mortgage the first official mortgage provider of the NFL in more than a decade.

Casey’s team led the creation and promotion of the Rocket Mortgage Classic – the first PGA TOUR event held in the city of Detroit. In 2019, the inaugural tournament was the most-awarded event on the TOUR, winning three “Best Of” awards, including the “Fair Way Award” for its diversity and inclusion initiatives. In 2020, the tournament shifted its focus and dedicated the bulk of its fundraising to bridging the digital divide in Detroit – the least connected major city in America. All in all, the second Rocket Mortgage Classic generated $2.7 million for nonprofits, with $2.4 million going towards digital inclusivity programming.

Along with Rocket Mortgage, Casey oversees the marketing efforts for other successful businesses in Rocket Companies (NYSE: RKT), including Rocket Pro TPO, Rocket Homes and Rocket Auto – helping to elevate these brands in their respective industries. His leadership helped place Rocket Mortgage into Ad Age’s Best Places to Work in 2021 list.
Casey joined the Rocket Mortgage family in 2017 after 24 years in automotive marketing – most recently leading advertising and communications for FIAT, where he helped successfully reintroduce the FIAT brand to American car buyers.

Equally important to his brand-building efforts is Casey’s work with local and national nonprofits. Three that are particularly close to his heart are the Special Olympics, the Salvation Army and Bethany Christian Adoption Services. In addition to his community efforts, Casey serves on the Board of Directors for Adcraft Detroit and the Detroit Sports Commission.
Casey is a graduate of Michigan State University, where he can be found cheering on his Spartans every fall.

Ross Jackson joined the Locked On Podcast Network in 2018 as host of the Locked On Saints podcast. Since then, his role expanded as a host on Locked On NFL, focusing on in-depth analysis of the biggest stories across the NFL and fantasy football. His background in performing arts drives his hosting style emphasizing energy and audience engagement. Ross is also a contributor to USA Today’s Saints Wire and serves as the Network’s Partnerships Manager focusing on collaborative efforts between Locked On, TEGNA, and Audacy radio stations while producing tentpole events.

Walker Jacobs is the Chief Revenue Officer at Twitch, bringing more than 20 years of experience building and leading advertising revenue teams at global entertainment brands. Prior to Twitch, Walker was COO at FANDOM, a global entertainment media brand powered by fan passion with 200 million monthly unique users. Prior to FANDOM, Walker was President and Chief Revenue Officer of Clear Channel Outdoor, where he was responsible for leading go-to-market strategies for the company’s out-of-home assets in the U.S. and Canada. Prior to Clear Channel, Walker was Executive Vice President at Turner Broadcasting System, the cable television division of Time Warner, where he led Turner Digital. There, he was responsible for leading sales and marketing across Turner’s portfolio of digital properties. While at Turner, Walker built and led one of the media industry’s largest digital ad sales and marketing organizations.

Eric John leads the IAB Media Center, a dedicated unit within the IAB whose mission is to simplify the video and audio supply chain, providing best practices and education for brands, agencies, and media companies. Eric drives the center’s efforts in the development of market-making research, industry standards, best practices and buyer/seller terms and conditions. Before joining the IAB, Eric served as VP of Digital Services and Strategy at the Alliance for Audited Media and as Global Director of Publisher / Developer marketing at Nokia, managing the company’s world-wide mobile app developer ecosystem. Prior to Nokia, Eric launched and led advertiser brand engagement solutions for Yahoo!, creating advanced, data-driven video, mobile and interactive campaigns for brands such as Pepsi, L’Oréal, GM, Audio and Nikon. Eric began his career at internet advertising pioneer DoubleClick (Google) where he led product development and marketing within the DART for Publishers (DFP) and DART for Advertisers (DFA) business units where he launched the industry’s first post-click measurement tools. Eric is an alumnus of Miami of Ohio (BA) and Indiana University (MA) and is a graduate of Columbia University’s Product Management Program.

Katty Kay co-anchors the hour-long current affairs program BBC News with Katty and Christian, bringing a rigorous and witty interviewing style to the most salient issues of the day for a transatlantic audience. Kay is also an anchor of BBC World News America, a newscast that showcases the BBC’s global journalism and is geared primarily for audiences in the U.S. Kay’s reporting has taken her around the world for the BBC, from the Americas to the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Europe. She is the co-author of three New York Times best-selling books: Womenomics, The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance—What Women Should Know, and The Confidence Code for Girls. Kay is based in Washington, where she draws upon her global expertise to cover major U.S and international stories, connecting the dots and offering unparalleled global context and perspective.

A Chicago native, Laura is a creative navigator, helping teams and clients find the intersection of human truth and product — and brilliantly executing on that insight. Most recently, she led the creation of a global campaign for KitchenAid, bringing master brand and product work to market. Laura also led the creation of the Kitchen Aid’s award-winning film “A Woman’s Place” and its accompanying mentorship program.

Laura has spent many years crafting stories for brands like Dow, SC Johnson, Kraft, Unilever and Kao. While an industry vet, she loves today’s ability to creatively think about the full consumer journey and the role of communication at every media touchpoint.

Alex Kennedy is the Global Head of Partnership Strategy and Operations at Twitter. She is responsible for the development of the Global Content Partnership strategy that both enables sustainable revenue growth and enhancement of the user experience on the platform. Alex additionally serves as an executive advisor to Twitter Women, a business resource group focused on building community for women at Twitter.

Prior to Twitter, Alex served as Chief of Staff to the Chief Digital Officer at Under Armour (UA) with a focus on Corporate and Digital Strategy. Over the course of nine years, Alex served in numerous positions that shaped how UA approached their digital strategy. This included the $700M+ dollar acquisition and integration of three tech companies – MapMyFitness, MyFitnessPal, and Endomondo – that together resulted in a digital fitness community of more than 120 million registered users, the largest at that time. Post acquisition, Alex was responsible for helping prioritize and consolidate product roadmaps, driving resource efficiencies in the disparate engineering organizations, as well as supporting monetization of global users.

Alex sits on several nonprofit and for-profit advisory boards. Currently, Alex serves on the board of ConnectED, a national nonprofit focused on making learning real, rigorous, and hands-on to ensure preparation for both college and career. She also serves as an advisor to the Center for Conscientious Leadership, an organization focused on developing the next generation of leaders. Alex sits on the for-profit advisory board of Lumii, a Human Resources web-based platform start-up that enables leaders to measure employee experience and understand how it impacts their business.

Alex is a graduate of Princeton University and proud native of Washington, DC. She currently resides in Oakland, California.

Klein joined PHD in March following 17 years at Zenith Media, where she most recently served as SVP, National Video Investment. During her tenure with Zenith, Klein drove clients’ overall investment approaches, crafting cross-channel, market-first deals. She also served as a member of the agency’s client leadership team. At PHD, Klein is responsible for leading PHD’s US investment operation and assuring a go-to-market strategy and product offering that is consistent with a rapidly evolving marketplace and expanding client needs.

James Kreckler serves as Senior Vice President, Digital Advertising, Advertising and Partnerships, NBCUniversal. In this post, James is responsible for driving advertising revenue for the company’s digital businesses and creating effective marketing solutions for partners across a diverse array of platforms, including web, mobile, video on demand, and social media. James reports to Trevor Fellows, Executive Vice President, Digital Sales & Partnerships, Advertising and Partnerships, NBCUniversal.

James joined NBCUniversal in January, 2012 as Vice President, Advertising Sales. James helped launch our partnership portfolio, consisting of key partnerships with Apple News, Youtube, Snapchat, Vox, and Buzzfeed. Prior to joining NBCUniversal, James has more than 15 years of experience in sales and marketing management with interactive media and financial service companies.

James served as Vice President of Digital Ad Sales at Rodale Inc. In this role, he oversaw strategic business development and overall management of advertising sales for Rodale’s digital brand. Before that, James was the Northeast Sales Director at AOL Interactive, and Strategic Account Director at Double Click.

James graduated from University of Wisconsin-Madison with a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations and English. James currently resides in Katonah, New York. He is married with three children.

Ken Lagana is the Executive Vice President of Digital Sales at Audacy, the #1 creator of original, premium audio content representing an audio universe of discovery and connection. Home to the industry’s most influential collection of broadcast and digital content, podcasts and premium live experiences, Audacy engages over 170 million consumers each month. In this role, Lagana leads sales strategy for the company’s large and rapidly growing digital business, including the fastest growing digital audio app in the United States (formerly RADIO.COM), and Audacy’s Podcast Network, which includes Cadence13, an industry leader in podcast creation and distribution, and Pineapple Street Media, an award-winning, renowned independent producer of top-rated podcast content. Prior to joining Audacy (then Entercom) in 2019, Lagana served as Head of Sales and Marketing for Megaphone, the leading provider of breakthrough podcast technology for publishers and advertisers. He played a key role in developing and promoting Megaphone Targeted Marketplace (MTM), the company’s game-changing advertiser-driven targeting and measurement solution. Previously, Lagana was Senior Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing for CBS Digital Media where he oversaw revenue generation and integrated marketing for the company’s entertainment, news and sports properties globally. His media career spans over 20 years and also includes sales and management positions at Turner Broadcasting and planning and strategy roles at Grey Advertising. Lagana earned a Bachelor of Science degree in strategic communications from the University of Delaware.

Kevin Lappen serves as Senior Vice President, Peacock Sales at NBCUniversal. In this role, Kevin leads the Peacock sales team, driving advertising revenue towards the company’s ad-supported streaming service, Peacock. Kevin joined the Peacock team in September 2019 to build out innovative advertising experiences with the goal of connecting consumers with content and brands.



Prior to his current role, Kevin spent nine years with NBC Sports as the SVP of Digital Sales and Sports Sponsorships. He has also spent a decade in NBC Entertainment where he worked across all Entertainment Digital Properties, including Hulu, where he sold initial Hulu launch sponsorships in 2007.



Previously, Kevin has held positions at GE Corporate in their Experienced Commercial Leadership Program, rotating across different divisions of GE including NBC.



Kevin graduated with a Bachelor’s in Business Management from Villanova University. He resides in Chatham, New Jersey with his wife Tara and three children, Ted, George, and Elizabeth.

David Levy is the chief executive officer of OpenAP, the advanced advertising company bringing simplicity and scale to audience-based campaigns in television. OpenAP makes it easy for buyers to plan, transact and measure against advanced targeting capabilities and ad products, at scale across premium TV publishers.

Before joining OpenAP in May 2019, David served as executive vice president of strategy and operations at Fox Networks Group (FNG), where he was responsible for driving strategy and accountability across the ad sales organization. In this role David oversaw the Advanced Advertising Sales, Pricing and Planning, Research, Data, and Ad Platform/Technology teams across FNG’s portfolio of brands including FBC, Fox Sports, FX, and Nat Geo. Prior to that, David was the co-founder and chief operating officer of true[X], the leading platform and marketplace for attention-based ad products, which was later acquired by FOX Networks group in 2015.

Throughout his career thus far, David has played a critical role leading the media and advertising industry’s evolution toward a more sustainable ad-supported model for premium content. In addition to his current post leading OpenAP, David serves as a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and is credited for being a seasoned thought leader and champion of inclusion in media. In 2020, he was recognized by Business Insider as one of the most influential people shaping the future of the TV advertising industry.

David has a Bachelor of Science, Business degree from UC San Diego. He currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife, two children and dog.

As Chief Content Officer, Lewinson is responsible for content strategy and acquisitions for Tubi, the largest free movie and TV streaming service. Lewinson heads up Tubi’s Los Angeles office where he manages one of the largest libraries in streaming (larger than Netflix). He oversees more than 250 content partners including every major studio in Hollywood.

Most recently, Lewinson was the Senior Vice President of Programming & Marketing at Sony Pictures Television and the streaming platform Crackle. Lewinson oversaw the programming strategy and content slate for Crackle and led the expansion of the service’s content library to include titles from most major studios. He was also instrumental in the launch of Crackle Original Series and Movies, including Mad Families (Charlie Sheen), StartUp (Martin Freeman) and Snatch (Rupert Grint). Lewinson was also the programming executive on Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee (2016 Emmy Nominee), including the most-viewed episode with President Barack Obama.

Previously, Lewinson spent more than a decade at FX Networks, most recently as Senior Vice President, Programming & Production. Lewinson spearheaded the launch of FXM (formerly Fox Movie Channel) and oversaw the channel’s programming portfolio. As a member of the senior executive team, he oversaw production and current programming of special projects including Sons of Anarchy late night talk series Anarchy Afterword, 10/90 sitcom Partners with Lionsgate/Debmar-Mercury, and the Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards.

Prior to joining FX, Lewinson served as the Vice President of Studio Entertainment at Lifetime Television where he was instrumental in the growth of Lifetime Movie Network and expanded the network’s partnerships with the major studios. He also held positions at The Walt Disney Company and Columbia Pictures.

Adam is an Emmy award-winning producer for FX’s A Tribute to Mel Brooks and produced the acclaimed series Fox Legacy alongside former Fox studio chairman Tom Rothman. Lewinson holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the American Film Institute, studied at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and achieved a BA from Vassar College. He also wrote the 2015 sci-fi adventure novel Earthbound.

Erin Lim is the host of “E! News’ The Rundown”- one of the first fully produced weekly shows for Snapchat, averaging 13 million viewers. In 2017, Erin’s on-air work helped “E! News” earn a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Entertainment News Program. Erin and the E! News team continue to reinvent entertainment and celebrity news for the next generation, serving as the go-to multiplatform destination for content and pop culture coverage spanning fashion, beauty, lifestyle, viral content, television, music and more, and the voice for what’s trending in pop culture across all platforms – from television and online to mobile, social and VOD. Erin was formerly the host for “E! News Asia.” Twitter / Instagram: @erinlimofficial

Jason creates emotionally engaging content with his three adopted children through music and entertaining family moments. Jason shows a brand of black fatherhood that is emotionally engaging with the purpose of creating joy that connects with the audience. Every moment is an opportunity to make someone feel included in the diverse family of DadlifeJason.

Tembi Locke is an actor, author, TV screenwriter and producer who thrives at the intersection of storytelling and advocacy. Her Reese’s Book Club pick and New York Times bestselling memoir From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home is a cross-cultural love story that takes place over two decades (and two countries!). She is currently Executive Producing the show’s adaptation as a limited series for Netflix with Hello Sunshine, and also stars in the global Netflix hit, Never Have I Ever.

An Audie Award nominee, Tembi is also the creative voice behind the digital platform, The Kitchen Widow which harnesses her advocacy work and love of food to create a space for conversations about caregiving, grief, parenthood, illness, and more, while offering recipes inspired by love.

Makeda Loney is a Copywriter at Martin by skill, and a Content Creator by passion. She has recognized across the industry on lists such as The Drum’s 50 under 30 in the U.S. in 2018, joined the ADCOLOR FUTURES Class of 2019, and The Pitch Fanzine’s 100 Supermen and Women of 2020 and The AD Club of NY’s Icon’s, Rockstars and Legends of 2021. She also co-hosts a podcast called Fat Outta Hell, a podcast that strives to break down the stigma of fatness and celebrates body liberation.

Jean-Philippe (JP) Maheu is the VP of US Client Services at Twitter, where he leads Twitter’s relationships with its top marketers and manages a team of industry & regional leaders. Prior to this role, JP launched the Global Brands team at Twitter and led the global expansion of Twitter Brand Strategy and Agency Development teams.

Maheu joined Twitter in 2013 through the acquisition of SocialTV analytics company Bluefin Labs, where he was CEO. Under JP’s leadership, Bluefin achieved remarkable sales traction with leading brands and strengthened its market-leading position.


Prior to Bluefin Labs, JP served as the Global CEO of Publicis Modem, the digital marketing unit of Publicis Worldwide. Maheu also held positions as both the Chief Digital Officer of Ogilvy & Mather, where he was responsible for digital growth and innovation across the company’s operating units, and CEO of Razorfish, where he led the vision, strategy, and growth of the company.


JP holds an MBA from J.L. Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, and an M.S. in Network & Computer Sciences from Pierre et Marie Curie University in Paris, France. He sits on the NY Chapter Board of The Nature Conservancy and lives in NYC with his wife and two children.

Kara Manatt is SVP, Intelligence Solutions at MAGNA where she uses next generation technology to answer Mediabrand’s toughest advertising questions. Her research program also serves as a testing ground for innovations in ad products and strategies for publishers and ad tech companies.

Peter Markham is Chief Executive Officer of Estrella Media, Inc. and a member of the Company’s Board of Directors, having previously served as interim Chief Operating Officer. As CEO, Markham oversees all company operations across its television, radio, production and digital assets.

Markham brings more than 20 years of media experience to Estrella Media, with a strong background in strategy, operations and business development. Previously, Markham served as CEO and Chairman of Granite Broadcasting and as Chairman of Communications Corporation of America where he led the operational and financial revitalization of these U.S. based television broadcasting companies.

His extensive Board experience includes several public and private media and technology enabled companies operating in Spanish-language media, OTT TV, mobile technology, TV production and other emerging media spaces. Markham also was the Head of TMT & European Coverage at Silver Point Capital where he led direct investment coverage and value creation efforts in the U.S. and Europe.

Markham holds a Master of Business Administration from New York University’s Stern School of Business, where he serves as an Adjunct Professor and a Bachelor’s of Science in Marketing from Clemson University, where he is on the board of the Spiro Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership.

Farhad Massoudi is the founder and CEO of Tubi, an ad-supported video on demand (AVOD) service. Massoudi launched Tubi in 2014 with the goal of offering premium television and movies for free, making entertainment accessible to everyone. Tubi was built on the success of adRise, the technology company Massoudi founded in 2010 to help studios distribute and monetize video-on-demand content on connected devices.

Massoudi has successfully bridged the gap between Silicon Valley and Hollywood by building Tubi as a technology-first OTT streaming service. Tubi’s proprietary content personalization engine allows the platform to reach a mass audience with individualized and tailored content. Under Massoudi’s leadership, Tubi has built strong relationships with the top Hollywood studios, networks and production companies, giving Tubi the power to compile one of the largest libraries of film and TV content across all genres. The company currently has partnerships with over 250 content partners including ever major Hollywood studio.

Today, Tubi is the only free streaming service with this expansive of a film and TV library, using proprietary technology to personalize the viewing experience anywhere, anytime. Tubi boasts more monthly titles than Netflix and is consistently ranked as the top rated free streaming app on platforms including iOS and Android. In 2020, Tubi became part of FOX Entertainment after being sold for nearly half a billion dollars.

Prior to Tubi, Massoudi was a VP of Engineering at SocialMedia.com and previously worked as an engineer at Yahoo!.

Rob Master is Vice President of Media and Marketing for North America at Unilever. He oversees a team responsible for media innovation, strategy and the development of integrated communication plans for all Unilever brands. Under Rob’s leadership Unilever has been recognized as Digital Marketer of the Year by Advertising Age, Media Client of the Year by Media Post and one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Marketers.

Rob joined Unilever in 2002 as a brand marketer, managing a number of the company’s iconic brands, including Dove and Axe, and driving award-winning branding campaigns.

Prior to joining Unilever, Rob worked in brand marketing for PepsiCo’s Taco Bell and for various communication agencies, as well as two start-ups.

He holds a B.A. in political science from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and an M.B.A. from the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis.

Jeff Meier is currently Head of Programming for the Crackle Plus family of AVOD and FAST channel services. Through mid-2020, Meier served as General Manager/SVP, Programming at Sony where he oversaw Sony Movie Channel, Cine Sony, and getTV, and planned the programming strategy for Sony’s trio of Spanish-language FAST channels under the Sony Canal name. Under his leadership, Cine Sony grew to become the #1 rated Spanish-language movie channel on TV. Specializing in channel launches, Meier also served as SVP for OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network and SVP for TV One, both during their development and launch phases. At TV One, in addition to managing all acquisitions and scheduling, he also created the channel’s original hit program UnSung, now a six-time NAACP Image Award winner of over 160 episodes.

Sean joined Snap Inc. in April 2015 and is the Head of Content. In this role, Sean oversees the development of all Snap Originals, shows made exclusively for Snapchat. He is also responsible for developing the content and programming strategy for Snapchat’s Discover, which features editorial content from leading publishers, TV networks, studios, sports leagues and more.

Before joining Snap, Vanessa was SVP of Content at iHeartMedia, helped lead Microsoft’s branded content at LiquidThread, and produced multiple Emmy Award winning daytime talk shows, including The Talk, Tyra, Dr. Oz and The Maury Show.