Multimedia mogul, Radio Hall of Fame inductee, bestselling author, and cultural architect Charlamagne Tha God, born Lenard McKelvey, is one of the most potent, influential, and authoritative thought leaders in modern culture. He is the outspoken, well-informed, opinionated, and charismatic co-host and driving force of the hottest radio show in the U.S., The Breakfast Club, heard by over 4.5 million listeners daily. The show boasts ten years on air as the most successful hip-hop show in radio history. Charlamagne’s poignant and uninhibited interviews drive the show’s popular daily conversation on topics spanning from hip-hop and race to social, political, and economic issues. He also co-hosts the popular podcast Brilliant Idiots. Charlamagne also hosts Tha God’s Honest Truth, a late night show on Comedy Central co-created with Stephen Colbert, where he takes on social issues and topics permeating politics and culture—rooted in truth, coated in comedy and unapologetically Black.

The influential magnitude of his burgeoning media empire continues to expand with several landmark partnerships, including The Black Effect Podcast Network, a historic 50-50 joint venture with iHeartMedia, the world’s number one commercial podcast publisher; SBH Productions, the audio production company created for a global multi-year, multi-project development, production, and audio licensing partnership with renowned comedian, actor, and writer Kevin Hart; and Black Privilege Publishing, a partnership that aligns with his mission to bring potent, culturally-relevant content to the marketplace from emerging and renowned Black voices around the world. Charlamagne is also the author of The New York Times bestseller Black Privilege: Opportunity Comes to Those Who Create It and the globally embraced Shook One: Anxiety Playing Tricks on Me, which launched him to become one of the world’s leading voices in the mental health discussion. With a deeply personal vision to help address the unmet and underserved emotional needs of Black people worldwide, Charlamagne founded the Mental Wealth Alliance (MWA), his forward-thinking foundation created to destigmatize, accelerate, and center state-of-the-art mental health outreach and care across the U.S. while building an unprecedented long-term system of generational support for Black communities.

As GM of Commercial Strategy at Nielsen, Ameneh Atai is responsible for leading all digital and advanced TV commercial strategy, sales and client services teams in the US.

Ameneh joined Nielsen in 2015 through the acquisition of eXelate.  Ameneh brings diverse knowledge to the Ad and MarTech space as her previous roles were in Director of Solutions Architecture and Director of Artificial Intelligence Solutions; her strengths are in advising and working directly with marketers and advertisers.  She is extremely client focused with a strong background in data driven software solutions and extensive experience in the digital advertising ecosystem. 

Ameneh started her career in Systems Engineering and held positions at International Submarine Engineering and Engineering Consulting, designing autonomous submarines and Big Data collection and monitoring infrastructures. She received a Bachelor of Applied Science in Electrical Engineering – Electronics from Simon Fraser University and holds two US patents in systems design, one of which has been in collaboration with University of Waterloo.  In her personal time, Ameneh is an avid traveler.  She also is classically trained in dance and passionate about empowering young women by teaching dance and choreography.

Sheri Bachstein currently serves as CEO of The Weather Company, an IBM Business, and general manager of IBM Watson Advertising.

Bachstein joined The Weather Company in 2007, previously serving as global head of the consumer business and V.P. of product operations. During her tenure, she created an innovative customer subscription model, developed a new advertising strategy leveraging Artificial Intelligence, and spearheaded the company’s bias in advertising initiative.

Her prior experience includes serving as a producer for The Weather Channel television network, V.P. of product and content at RMS Networks in Fort Lauderdale, FL, and as a producer for WGNX-TV. She has won multiple media awards, including an Emmy Award and an AP Award. She is a member of WIT, Digital Content Next, IAB, and WICT.

Jim Bankoff (@bankoff) is the Chair, CEO and Co-Founder of Vox Media, the modern media company. Bankoff oversees all aspects of the company, which includes storytelling that spans influential editorial networks, a studios division that produces television series, streaming video, podcasts, and film; premium advertising solutions; a print magazine; and innovative publishing technology that enables media businesses across the industry.

Vox Media’s portfolio reaches hundreds of millions of people each month and features the editorial properties Vox, New York Magazine, The Verge, The Cut, Eater, Vulture, The Strategist, Polygon, SB Nation, Intelligencer, Curbed, Grub Street and Recode, covering topics including news, policy, technology, business, science, lifestyle, sports, food, shopping, restaurants, entertainment, and gaming. The company’s diverse storytelling and advertising businesses include the Concert publisher-led marketplace, the Vox Creative brand studio, the Chorus publishing platform, and the entertainment division Vox Media Studios, which includes the Vox Media Podcast Network and Epic.

Bankoff led Vox Media’s merger with New York Media, the publisher of the iconic 50+ year-old New York Magazine, in 2019, followed by Vox Media’s more recent acquisitions and partnerships including: Cafe Studios, Preet Bharara’s podcast-first media company; Punch, the James Beard award-winning media brand covering drinks and cocktail culture; Hot Pod, the preeminent publication covering the podcast industry; and Criminal Productions, a leading narrative podcast studio. Under Bankoff’s leadership, Vox Media has been named one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Companies in Media,” an Inc. “Company of the Year,” Digiday’s “Best Employer for Parents,” and designated a Best Place to Work for LGBTQ+ equality by the Human Rights campaign for three years running.

Before launching Vox Media, Bankoff was an executive at AOL, where he successfully developed and led dozens of the most notable brands of the early internet era including, in addition to AOL, Mapquest, Moviefone, AOL Music and Engadget. He oversaw AOL’s industry-leading applications including AIM, ICQ, and Netscape and co-founded TMZ.com, which started as a joint venture between AOL and Time Warner.

Among his accolades, Bankoff won an Emmy award for his production of the Live8 Concerts. He has been named to Adweek’s Power List; The Hollywood Reporter’s 35 Most Powerful People in New York Media; The Washingtonian’s Tech Titans; Business Insider’s Silicon Alley 100; and The Guardian’s 100 Most Powerful People in Media.

He earned a degree from Emory University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Bankoff is a self-described media nerd — the person who, as a kid, collected favorite print articles and went on to intern at CNN and Washington Week before joining AOL. Today, he lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and three children.

Paul is the Chief Strategy Officer at CafeMedia, the world’s largest ad management service, providing the technology and services that help the highest quality publishers grow their businesses and maximize success. The company serves over 3,600 independent publishers whose distinctive voices are shaping the open web. The company’s collective of creators reaches more than 170 million monthly unique visitors, ranking as the 8th largest digital entity and as #1 in Food, Family, and Home.

Paul focuses on new product innovation, strategic partnerships, and corporate development at CafeMedia. Paul is a board member of the IAB Tech Lab and has worked in digital media and advertising since the mid-90s, starting a major video game website out of his parent’s basement.

Airey is the Director, Product Management, Privacy at TripleLift where he oversees the team responsible for defining and executing the company’s product and go-to-market strategy for privacy and identity solutions. Airey plays a major role in TripleLift’s product development for post-third party cookie solutions, including identity, contextual, and Privacy Sandbox solutions.

Prior to TripleLift, Airey led business and product development teams for consumer internet and SaaS products. Most recently, Airey was the Head of Product of Quantcast, where he focused on developing product and business solutions at the intersection of privacy and advertising.

Airey is involved in a number of industry trade groups including IAB Tech Lab, Prebid.org and W3C, and has contributed to establishing various best practices and protocols for privacy and identity including Project Rearc.

When Airey is not diving into the latest privacy policy changes, you can find him trail running, backpacking and eating his way through Southern California.

Joe Barone is Managing Partner, Brand Safety Americas for GroupM, the world’s largest media buying organization.

In that role, Joe has helped pioneer the industry’s move to a more transparent, accountable digital inventory supply chain, working to ensure clients get full value for their digital advertising investment. Joe’s focus is on developing and executing GroupM’s marketplace position on Brand Safety elements including Brand Safety & Suitability, fraud detection and prevention, anti-piracy, and insuring client’s ads appear in positive, relevant advertising environments. He has spent the past 12 years shaping GroupM’s practice in North America, and in 2017 was named to a new post adding responsibility for supporting the Latin America roll out of these trusted supply chain practices.

Joe first joined WPP in 1989. He has held various traditional and digital media positions within WPP agencies including Managing Director of neo@Ogilvy, and Director, Strategic Media Integration at Ogilvy & Mather.

Joe has been buying digital media since 1994, when Hotwired.com became the first publisher to offer banners online. Before moving into a full time Brand Safety role, Joe managed the US Groupm Digital Traffic team, was engaged in ad-tech systems development, publisher and ad tech vendor contract negotiations, and process re-engineering/workflow analysis, all in support of GroupM agencies including Mindshare, Wavemaker, Mediacom, mSix, Catalyst, Essence, and Xaxis.

Joe is currently a member of many Brand Safety related industry working groups, including the 4A’s Advertiser Protection Bureau, the Global Alliance for Responsible Media Steering Committee, the IAB Tech Lab Content Taxonomy Working Group, MRC Digital Committee, the Coalition for Better Ads Research & Methodology Working Group, Trustworthy Accountability Group Leadership Committee, the Brand Safety Institute Leadership Council, and the Double Verify and Integral Ad Science Advisory Boards.

With nearly 20 years of experience in digital advertising, Peter brings with him a successful track record in revenue growth, managing large accounts across enterprise verticals and building partnerships.

Peter joined PubMatic in 2016 and spent several years leading PubMatic’s Australia & New Zealand business to be one of the top SSPs in the region; working with all major publishers, broadcasters and buyers. He also headed up PubMatic’s Audience product, Audience Encore, across the APAC region, allowing advertisers, data owners and publishers access to best-in-market technology and innovation to ensure their businesses are set up for long term success. He was promoted to VP for Addressability in 2021 where he is responsible for growing and overseeing PubMatic’s global addressability solutions business, based in New York.

Reema Batta is the Chief Marketing Officer of Heyday, overseeing creative studio, customer acquisition, and engagement, including customer experience and channel expansion efforts. Heyday is a next-generation CPG company leveraging a marketplace native approach to brand creation.

Previously, Reema was the VP of Marketing at Opendoor, a category-defining Real-Estate-Tech company. In this capacity, she oversaw building Opendoor’s brand awareness and driving customer acquisition and engagement across all markets and customer segments from an early stage to IPO in 2020.

Before that, Reema co-founded Babyhugz, a content-to-commerce platform serving the Indian market, and held Marketing leadership positions at Expedia and Hewlett-Packard.

John Battelle is co-founder and Executive Chair of Recount Media Inc., a NY-based media platform. He also serves as chairman of the board at sovrn Holdings, LLC and a Director at LiveRamp, an NYSE listed company. In addition, he is Adjunct Professor and Senior Research Scholar at the School for International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He previously was founder and CEO of six media and technology companies, including Federated Media, the Industry Standard, and Wired. In 2005, Mr. Battelle wrote “The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture” (Penguin/Portfolio). Mr. Battelle holds a bachelor’s degree in anthropology and a master’s degree in journalism from UC Berkeley.

Eugene Becker joins Acxiom as EVP, General Manager, Global Data and Identity Products where he will set the strategy for the business and oversee operations and the P&L.

Eugene’s career spans adtech and martech, including roles in data, analytics and product management with agencies and startups.  Most recently, Eugene was the Chief Data Officer at Merkle with leadership oversight across data, identity and partnerships.  Prior, he led product at eXelate and built a DMP that underpinned eXelate’s acquisition by Nielsen.  Eugene was a founder and member of the leadership team at WPP’s Xaxis division, where he established the analytics and audience strategy practice.  At the outset of his agency career, Eugene built the analytics practice at MRM Worldwide.

Eugene received a BA and an MA in Economics from Northwestern University and remains an avid fan of Wildcats football.  He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and one-year old son. 

Krishan Bhatia serves as President & Chief Business Officer for NBCUniversal’s Advertising and Partnerships division, reporting to Linda Yaccarino, Chairman, Global Advertising & Partnerships. Bhatia oversees Advertising Sales for all Streaming & Data Products as well as the division’s One Platform Strategy, Partnerships, Data, Product, Technology, Measurement, and Operations functions — spanning a portfolio of TV, CTV and digital assets that reaches 1B viewers globally, including the company’s ad-supported streaming platform Peacock.

In 2021, Bhatia launched the company’s Enterprise Data unit to develop NBCUnified, the first-party data platform that serves NBCUniversal’s portfolio of industry-leading consumer businesses — including the company’s TV & streaming properties, the NBC News Group, Universal Filmed Entertainment and Universal Parks & Resorts.

Bhatia also manages the corporate partnerships with Comcast Advertising, Freewheel and Sky Media, as well NBCU’s advertising partnerships with Amazon, Apple, Google/YouTube, Roku, Snap, The Trade Desk, TikTok, Twitter and others.

Bhatia took on his role at NBCUniversal after Comcast acquired the company in 2011 and led the integration of the two companies’ advertising businesses. He joined Comcast in 2005 as a founding executive team member of Comcast Interactive Media, where he played an instrumental role in creating and growing the digital media business for Comcast through acquisitions and partnerships.

Prior to Comcast, Bhatia was a Principal with Booz Allen Hamilton’s Global Media & Entertainment Practice in New York, advising many of the world’s leading media and technology companies.

Bhatia serves on the Executive Committee of the IAB, as a board member of OpenAP and a board observer for the company’s investments in Anzu and TVScientific.

Ann Blinkhorn specializes in building leadership teams for businesses at the intersection of media, marketing and technology.

Ann founded Blinkhorn in New York in 2009 following seven years as a leading executive recruiter at Spencer Stuart. She has reshaped senior leadership teams for established media companies transforming their businesses, and has also recruited executive talent to earlier stage digital companies working to rapidly grow their brands and franchises. Ann has led CEO and other senior-level engagements for a diverse range of clients including Comcast, Hearst, Microsoft, Dow Jones, Insider Inc (Business Insider) and Huffington Post, among many others.

Ann’s background includes over 25 years of traditional and digital media operating experience combined with executive search experience. She began her career at The New York Times Company, where she served in corporate strategy and later as publisher of the first foreign- language edition of The New York Times, a joint venture in Russia with The Moscow News. She also served as president of the North American division of the International Herald Tribune (now International New York Times). Prior to transitioning to executive search in 2002, Ann was part of the founding management team of zUniversity.com, where she launched and ran an online recruitment business.

Ann earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and an A.B. degree from Smith College. She serves on the advisory boards of WFUV Radio (Fordham University public radio affiliate) and ProPublica, and previously served on the board of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University.

Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester represents Delaware in the U.S. House of Representatives and serves as an Assistant Whip for House Leadership. Lisa sits on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. The committee has broad jurisdiction over health care, the environment, commerce and trade, energy policy, telecommunications, manufacturing, and consumer protection.

As the Energy and Commerce Committee’s only former statewide health official, Lisa understands health care from a number of different perspectives – as an implementer at the Delaware Department of Health and Social Services, negotiator while serving as State Personnel Director, and advocate as CEO of the Metropolitan Wilmington Urban League. Lisa is focused on reducing the cost of health care and prescription drugs for middle-class families, addressing the disparity in outcomes for communities of color, and tackling our nation’s opioid and addiction epidemic. She serves as a Member of the Bipartisan Heroin Task Force, comprised of more than 100 members united with the common goal of tackling opioid addiction.

Lisa is a leading voice in Congress on economic and future of work-related issues. As former Secretary of Labor and State Personnel Director, Lisa leverages her professional experience to advocate for legislation that boosts start-up business growth, removes barriers for citizens re-entering society, and addresses college affordability and ballooning student debt. She is a Co-Chair of the New Democrat Coalition’s Future of Work Task Force and serves as the sole Member of Congress on the Aspen Institute’s National Advisory Council for the Future of Work Initiative. She is also the founder of the Congressional Future of Work Caucus.

In the 115th Congress, Lisa was a member of the House Committee on Agriculture – the first Delawarean to serve on the committee in over 120 years. In this role, she helped craft the 2018 Farm Bill, which is a five-year re-authorization that extends U.S. Department of Agriculture programs related to the farm safety net; nutrition programs that feed children, seniors, people with disabilities, and families who rely on the social support programs; land-grant and 1890 universities; and agriculture research.

As a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and a strong proponent of reforming our criminal justice system, Lisa introduced first-in-the-nation legislation, the Clean Slate Act, sealing the federal records of former nonviolent offenders that remain crime-free and have earned a second chance. This bill would provide new opportunities for Americans to earn a good-paying job, pursue education and training, and rent or own a home. According to estimates by the Center for American Progress, the passage of the Clean Slate Act could boost the U.S. economy by as much as $87 billion per year.

Traveling up and down the state, Lisa is an advocate for the needs of every community, which informs her work in Washington. Having met with homeowners in the South Shore Marina development in North Bethany Beach, she learned of an error in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s coastal mapping unit for the town – preventing homeowners from taking advantage of the National Flood Insurance Program and FEMA aid in the event of a disaster. Turning their concerns into action, Lisa reached across the aisle to work with Democrats and Republicans across the country with similarly affected mapping units and introduced the Strengthening Coastal Communities Act. She worked with allies in Delaware and Washington to help usher this critical piece of legislation into law – aiding homeowners and setting aside hundreds of acres for environmental protection.

With deep roots in the First State, Lisa grew up in Wilmington, graduated from Padua Academy, and worked her first job at the McDonald’s on Market Street. She graduated from Fairleigh Dickinson University with a degree in International Relations and put herself through graduate school as a working mom – earning a master’s degree in Urban Affairs and Public Policy from the University of Delaware.

Lisa began her distinguished career in public service as an intern and later Caseworker in a congressional office where she helped Delawareans with their Social Security benefits, disability insurance claims, IRS disputes, and housing needs. Lisa would go on to serve in the cabinets of two Delaware governors and as CEO of the Metropolitan Wilmington Urban League – an action-oriented, public policy research think-tank.

Lisa also served as the Senior Executive Leadership and Systems Manager for the Institute for Community Inclusion at the University of Massachusetts Boston where she advocated for people with disabilities in their struggle for equal opportunity and civil rights. During this time, Lisa helped expand the Institute’s global footprint and advised state agencies and employers. In part due to Lisa’s work, she helped build the Institute into a fully-fledged college at the university, the School for Global Inclusion and Social Development — focused on the inclusion of all people.

Lisa currently resides in Wilmington, Delaware near her adult-aged children, Alex and Alyssa, as well as her daughter-in-law, Ebony.

+20 years track record in building and growing EU operations for US companies. Highly regarded in the EU internet advertising industry as a thought leader and top professional. Outstanding team builder and manager. Founder of Abakus, successfully sold to SAP in 2017. Tim also built BlueLithium Europe from inception, the largest UK ad network in 2005-2007, sold to Yahoo.

Mike Brunick is the VP, Head of Ad Partnerships at Yahoo, guiding the monetization and strategy for managed supply partners for the company. He works with Microsoft across their Xbox, MSN and Outlook business lines, and is leading the expansion of Verizon Media’s DOOH and Connected TV partnerships.

Mike also oversees the Verizon Integrated Partnerships team – working to enhance and evolve how the multiple divisions of Verizon work together to deepen customer relationships and develop strategic business solutions – as well as Verizon Media’s SMB offering.

Spanning over 20 years of industry experience, Mike has worked in the agency, consulting and media spaces, providing strategic guidance to help better connect brands to their customers through the application of data. He is a pioneer in the evolution of data-driven marketing, and has led partnerships and business creation across a variety of categories.

Dennis leads Meta’s efforts to more effectively collaborate with the advertising ecosystem on standards and solutions related to privacy, ads measurement, brand safety, and more. Dennis joined Meta in 2021 after 4 years as the CEO/GM of IAB Tech Lab, the digital advertising industry’s global technical standards body. Prior to IAB Tech Lab, Dennis spent 14 years in advertising technology product leadership roles at Yahoo and Microsoft, after starting his career in software at Apple, Oracle, and a Pinterest predecessor he co-founded.  Dennis holds degrees in Computer Science and Business Economics from Brown University.

Sean Buckley is Magnite’s Chief Revenue Officer for CTV and is responsible for the company’s revenue-related activities for CTV as well as demand relationships. Sean joined Magnite from the acquisition of SpotX where he held the position of Chief Operating Officer where he oversaw and drove SpotX’s broader business objectives including the overarching company vision. He was responsible for operations, sales, partnerships, and marketing for the company.

Sean joined SpotX in 2013 to expand the company’s platform business, providing media owners with a solution to holistically manage their programmatic video strategy. At SpotX, Sean held numerous positions including, VP, Platform; SVP, Global Revenue, and Chief Revenue Officer, and was instrumental in growing the business. Sean has received industry-wide recognition for his work at SpotX, most recently being named one of Business Insider’s “TV Insiders to Know.”

Conal Byrne is the Chief Executive Officer of the iHeartMedia Digital Audio Group, which includes the company’s fast-growing and high-profile podcasting business and #1 podcast publisher globally according to Podtrac, as well as the industry-leading iHeartRadio digital service; the company’s digital sites, services, newsletters and programs; and its digital advertising technology companies, including Jelli, RadioJar, Unified, Voxnest and the recently-announced Triton Digital acquisition, upon its completion.

Prior to joining iHeartMedia, Byrne was President and CEO of Stuff Media, Inc., home of the incredibly popular HowStuffWorks (HSW), which pioneered the podcast space with leading shows including “Stuff You Missed in History Class” and “Stuff You Should Know.” Byrne joined iHeartMedia when the company acquired Stuff Media in October 2018. Prior to Stuff Media, Byrne served as Senior Vice President of Digital Media for Discovery Communications, where he ran digital for all of Discovery’s U.S. networks’ sites and social platforms and led the launch of Discovery VR.

Fiona Campbell-Webster, Esq, CIPP-E, is MediaMath’s Chief Privacy Officer and sits on Legal/Data Policy and Governance team. As head of privacy at MediaMath, she is responsible for defining the privacy program and strategic policies and processes around privacy, data use, identity, and compliance. Her work addresses challenges facing both consumer privacy and identity, and healthy competitive digital markets, in an internet connected ad-supported world.

Fiona has more than two decades of experience as a privacy leader advising media and digital companies. Before MediaMath, Fiona was Head Legal Counsel and DPO at Beeswax (DSP), and prior to that she was the first and sole legal counsel and DPO at TripleLift (SSP).

Alex Cash is the Director of Strategy for OneTrust PreferenceChoice – part of the #1 most widely used privacy, security and governance technology platform. In his role, Cash oversees the global OneTrust PreferenceChoice team and works with emerging and enterprise companies on best practices to drive engaging user experiences and build trust while demonstrating compliance across 100s of global data privacy regulations, including the CCPA, TCPA, CASL and GDPR. Cash is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/E, CIPM) and frequently speaks at industry events where he provides deep insight into regulatory issues and practical approaches to compliance.

As co-founder and CTO of Innovid (NYSE:CTV), Tal leads the company’s long term technology vision, overseeing global technology development and implementation, product creation, business development and partnerships. Tal previously served as an officer in the Israeli Air Force and co-founded Garage Geeks. Tal is an IAB board member and owns several global patents for interactive TV technology.

Blake Chandlee is President of Global Business Solutions at TikTok, overseeing the strategic business direction and teams responsible for growing TikTok’s business presence as TikTok’s user base and brand partnerships continue scaling globally.

Previously, Blake served as Global Vice President of Facebook’s GMS Partnership and Solutions Engineering Team, for a decade where he oversaw strategy, partnerships, and commercial relationships across tech and content partners, and led the engineering team focused on the most sophisticated clients and agencies.

Prior to Facebook, Blake spent 5 years at Yahoo! in a variety of domestic and international roles, including Vice President and Commercial Director at Yahoo! UK Ltd. There, he played an instrumental role in setting the strategic direction of the organization, leading agency and client sales teams and driving partnerships across the UK and Pan-European market.

As the Senior Vice President of Activations and Addressability at LiveRamp, Travis Clinger leads activation partnerships spanning martech, commerce, customer service, along with the company’s global digital advertising ecosystem strategy: driving strategic initiatives, advancing global partnerships, and overseeing the business development and go-to-market strategies for key addressability and activations products and initiatives.

Yale Cohen serves as the EVP of Global Digital Standards for Publicis Media, encompassing all areas of media quality, safety and suitability, and now Brand Integrity to help advertisers understand the value of each individual impression and how culture has impacted marketers’ decision process. He has become Publicis Media’s industry voice for Standards, incorporating client needs for partners to adhere to Publicis’ stringent expectations.

Throughout his 18 years of digital advertising experience, 12 of them with Publicis, Yale has worked alongside clients including Bank of America, Verizon, and Kellogg’s to simplify the complexities of our industry. He’s the chair of the 4A’s Advertiser Protection Bureau, honoree of Adweek’s Young Influential list, and part of numerous charity organizations.

Yale currently resides in Jersey City but grew up in Houston. Outside of the office, he is a dedicated father to his son, Cassius and daughter Vera. Fun fact: Yale was an alternate to the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens for the sport of Fencing.

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.

Jeffrey Cole has been at the forefront of media and communication technology issues both in the United States and internationally for the past three decades. An expert in the field of technology and emerging media, Cole serves as an adviser to governments and leading companies around the world as they craft digital strategies. He is Director of the Center for the Digital Future and a Research Professor at the USC Annenberg School.

Cole founded and directs the World Internet Project, a long-term longitudinal look at the effects of Internet technology conducted in more than 30 countries. He has worked with both the Clinton and George W. Bush White House on media and telecommunications issues and regularly makes presentations across the U.S. and in Europe, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa.

Scott Cunningham is owner of Cunningham.Tech Consulting and is architect of NewsPassID ad network for the Local Media Consortium. He is author of Defining Brand Safety Series by the Brand Safety Institute (BSI), Founder of the IAB Tech Lab, principal technology and program Founder of the Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG), former President of Media News Group Interactive and was a pioneer in the development of USATODAY.com. Additionally, Cunningham advises iSpot.tv and Madhive on measurement and CTV products among his activities.

As General Manager of GPS Media at Gap Inc, Mark brings a diverse range of business building experience in media and technology. He has helped launch digital organizations with Sony (Crackle, Playstation, ShareCare, Vevo), eBay Ads and Viacom. His expertise is building advertising revenue with marketing technology and data partnerships. Mark holds an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business and a Bachelor of Arts from Hamilton College, and is active within the marketing industry with the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) on the Retail Media committee, the ANA, MMA, and CMO Council.

David Eisenberg is Chief Strategy Officer at LiveRamp (NYSE: RAMP), the leading data connectivity and identity platform for powering exceptional customer experience. At LiveRamp, David is responsible for strategy, M&A, investments and new growth initiatives.

Prior to LiveRamp, David served as head of strategy and M&A at Acxiom, where he was a driving force for the company’s business and digital transformation from a traditional marketing services company to a next-generation marketing technology platform, including forward-thinking acquisition of LiveRamp. He led the sale of Acxiom to IPG for $2.3B.

Earlier, David was GM of Rakuten USA and led global corporate development for Rakuten Inc. (4755: TOKYO), a $15B global consumer Internet and Ecommerce Company.

Nicholas Farmer is the coordinator of the Black Bee Honey Co. a student entrepreneurship program founded in 2017 and operated by the Orlando Community and Youth Trust, a non-profit organization. Students from the Parramore and Holden Heights communities in Orlando, FL are working to turn their communities from food deserts to food oases. Black Bee Honey focuses on educating and teaching, high school-aged students, how to start and run their own businesses. Nicholas works to foster the atmosphere to equip the students with the tools needed to ensure they have successful careers after high school. Through an appearance on the Steve Harvey show, Black Bee was able to form a partnership with iGourmet, allowing the company to have an international reach. The program has been recognized with awards such as the MAN UP Mentoring Award and the Eagle Award for Outstanding Community Achievement. Nicholas a native of Atlanta, Ga, and a 12-year veteran of the Georgia Army National Guard where he is still actively serving.

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

Jon Fortt is co-anchor of CNBC’s bi-coastal tech-focused program “TechCheck” (M-F, 11AM-12PM ET/8AM-9AM PT); and creator of the weekly segments, “On the Other Hand” on “Squawk Box” and “Working Lunch” on “Power Lunch.” Previously, he co-anchored CNBC’s “Squawk Alley” and prior served as an on-air editor based at CNBC’s global headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Fortt joined CNBC as technology correspondent in July 2010, working from CNBC’s Silicon Valley bureau where he covered the companies, start-ups and trends that are driving innovation in the industry.

Ashutosh Gangwar leads the TV partnerships team at The Trade Desk. In his role, Ashutosh is responsible for growth of the CTV business with key networks such as Disney, NBC, ViacomCBS and Warner. His focus is on building partnerships that maximize value for the clients and long-term competitiveness of the platform.

Before coming to The Trade Desk, Ashutosh was VP of Business Development at Nielsen, where he headed the partnership team for the Marketing Effectiveness practice. Ashutosh brings 15 years of experience in digital media and advertising. This includes global brands such as AOL, CBS, and Nielsen.

Ashutosh received his Aerospace Engineering degree from IIT Bombay and an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Business.

Gina Garrubbo is President and CEO of National Public Media (NPM), the corporate sponsorship subsidiary of NPR, owned in partnership with PBS and WGBH. In this key role, Garrubbo leads NPM in delivering corporate sponsorship revenue to NPR and the public media system.

Garrubbo has spent more than 20 years growing marketing and sales teams, launching brands, and building companies, with extensive experience in traditional and digital media. Prior to joining NPM in 2015, Garrubbo was CEO of Garrubbo & Company, advising clients such as SheSpeaks, MediaBizNet, and Swissclear Global. Previously, she was Senior Vice President of Hearst Magazines’ Totally Global Media, where she built a first-of-its-kind global digital advertising platform across Hearst and its publishing partners’ digital properties worldwide. Garrubbo was also one of the key executives responsible for building women.com, one of the first websites for women, and for making BlogHer into the largest multi-platform community for women in social media. She was Executive Vice President of Revenue for Oxygen Media and Divisional Vice President of Sales for Discovery Communication. Her earliest years in the media business include stints with Wells, Rich, Greene, McCann-Erickson, and ABC Television in the Advertising Sales and Affiliate Relations divisions.

Garrubbo sits on the Board of Directors of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), where she has been a co-chair of the Audio Committee since 2017. During her first term as an IAB Board member in 1999, Garrubbo helped create some of the first guidelines for brands and publishers in the digital space and today continues to drive advancements in the industry with a focus on digital audio. For her significant contributions to the IAB and digital advertising field, she was honored with the IAB Service Excellence Award in 2019.

Garrubbo has spoken at CES, IoT World, Advertising Week, Digiday’s Content Marketing Summit and RAIN’s Podcast Business Summit. She is a board member of TAPPP (an OTT video service) and Glen Highland Farm.

Adam Gerber is Executive Director, US Investment Strategy for GroupM, WPP’s media investment group, collectively representing more than $14B in investment from the world’s largest and most dynamic advertisers, including NBCUniversal, Unilever, Ford, Google, Mars, The Coca-Cola Company, and L’Oreal.

In his role, Gerber leads initiatives to help GroupM’s clients create and capture value across a rapidly changing media landscape by co-developing new advertising models with media companies, defining and scaling omni-channel addressable capabilities, and creating competitive advantages in an era of platform-based, data-driven campaign management.

Gerber first joined GroupM in 2017, previously serving as Global Chief Investment Officer at Essence, recognized as one of the industry’s most innovative media agencies. Prior to Essence, Gerber spent six years at ABC/Disney where he departed as SVP, Client Development & Communications and served four years as an evangelist for the digitally-oriented audience measurement and targeting company Quantcast as Chief Marketing Officer.

Gerber began his career in 1990 working across a variety of roles at startups and media agencies including Brightcove, America Online, Mediavest Worldwide/Publicis, Ammirati Puris Lintas/IPG and J Walter Thompson/WPP.

A regular commentator on issues affecting advertisers, Gerber has been recognized by Adweek and Mediaweek as one of the industry’s leading figures in media and served as chairman of the 4A’s Interactive Marketing & New Media Committee from 2001-2003. He holds a B.S. degree in Journalism and a B.A. degree in International Relations from Boston University, and resides in Westchester with his wife and two children.

Sally Gilligan is the Chief Growth Transformation Officer for Gap Inc. leading the long-term strategic direction of Gap Inc. along with members of the Senior Leadership Team. As head of the Strategic Growth Office, she oversees our strategic planning and new business development and operations in support of our growth initiatives.  In this capacity, she leads the corporate development, strategy, new business operations, sustainability, Gap foundation, and government affairs organizations. 

Sally has been with Gap Inc. for over 16 years, serving in a variety of roles in the organization with a focus on transformation, capability building and optimization. Most recently, Sally served as CIO, overseeing the company’s technology transformation and organization that serves as the engine that drives retail, e-commerce and global enterprise technology for millions of customers. She also served as SVP of Product Operations and Supply Chain Strategy where she led a global team responsible for building and deploying capabilities to enable the end-to-end demand based operating model. This included sourcing & fulfillment strategy, product management for all operations design through inventory management and fulfillment, and advanced analytics for product costing, inventory, and network optimization.   

Prior to joining Gap Inc., Sally has ten years of management consulting and financial services experience. Sally holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Georgetown University in Washington D.C. and a Masters in Business Administration from University of Chicago. She serves as Chair of the Gap Foundation.

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.

Marc Grabowski is the Global Group Vice President of Oracle Advertising Sales.

Marc has more than two decades of experience driving sales, product, account management and operational organizations in the media and technology space.

Marc holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science from Boston University and has served on various boards including Savingstar, Spring Technology, The Chicago Area Runners Association and Persio, where he also served as CEO leading the company to a successful exit in 2016.

Jenny Gyllander is the Founder and CEO of Thingtesting, an independent brand discovery site where consumers can find and learn about new brands and get honest, unbiased recommendations among the deluge of DTC product launches. Committed to transparency, Founder and CEO Jenny Gyllander has grown the site from a brand-spotting Instagram account to a trustworthy go-to destination for online shoppers.

Prior to Thingtesting, Jenny worked at Backed VC, a London-based seed fund, and was the CMO of Slush, Europe’s leading startup conference. Jenny is a Forbes 30 Under 30 alumni (2019), has been recognized as one of the top 100 Nordic leading figures in tech (The Nordic Web).

Stephanie Hanson is the Offering Manager of OneTrust, the most widely used privacy, security and governance technology platform. In her role, Hanson oversees the OneTrust Platform’s products across web, mobile and OTT/CTV, working with emerging and enterprise companies on best practices to drive engaging user experiences and build trust while demonstrating compliance across 100s of global data privacy regulations, including CCPA and GDPR. Hanson has publicly spoken on a variety of privacy, security and marketing topics, providing deep insight into regulatory issues and practical approaches to marketing compliance for advertisers and publishers. Hanson is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (FIP, CIPP/E, CIPM) and holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

John Heilemann is a co-founder of Recount Media and executive editor of The Recount, a social and streaming video news outlet covering politics, business, technology, and culture. He is the host of The Recount’s Hell & High Water with John Heilemann, a weekly YouTube series and podcast about the intersection of politics and culture; a host, creator, and executive producer of Showtime’s Emmy-nominated weekly political docu-series The Circus; national affairs analyst for NBC News and MSNBC; and co-author of Game Change and Double Down, the definitive accounts of the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections. (A New York Times No. 1 best-seller for eleven straight weeks, Game Change was adapted by HBO into a movie of the same name, which went on to win five Emmy Awards, three Golden Globes, and a Peabody Award.) Heilemann previously served as a managing editor of Bloomberg Politics and host of the daily MSNBC and Bloomberg TV program With All Due Respect. He is a former staff writer and columnist for New York, The New Yorker, Wired, and The Economist. A graduate of Northwestern University and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Heilemann was born and raised in Los Angeles and now lives in New York City.

Evan Hills is the Senior Vice President of Strategy and Partnerships at Dstillery. He leads the partnerships, strategy and corporate development functions and has extensive experience working with partners across the ad tech and media industries. Currently, Evan is focused on developing and launching Dstillery’s post-cookie strategy and leading its international expansion. An award-winning data enthusiast, and a proven builder, he joined Dstillery in 2014, focused on strategic partnerships with social platforms, and went on to lead Dstillery’s pivot from a DSP to a targeting solutions company. He was named one of NYC TV Week’s 40 under 40 in 2019.

Lauren R. Hobart is President and Chief Executive Officer of DICK’S Sporting Goods. Lauren is the third CEO in the company’s history, preceded by current Executive Chairman & Chief Merchant, Ed Stack (1984 – January 2021), and the company’s founder, Dick Stack (1948 – 1984).

Lauren joined DICK’S in February 2011 as Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). In her time as CMO, Lauren revamped the Company’s marketing efforts, drove significant improvement in the ROI of the marketing spend and was instrumental in developing and launching the CALIA by Carrie Underwood brand.  In 2015, Lauren was promoted to Executive Vice President and CMO and later to Executive Vice President, Chief Customer & Digital Officer.  She became President of DICK’S in May 2017 overseeing the Stores, Marketing, eCommerce, Technology, HR, Communications, Legal and Strategy & Analytics organizations. Additionally, she has served on the DICK’S Board of Directors since January 2018 and is President of The DICK’S Sporting Goods Foundation.

During her tenure, Lauren has helped drive the company’s robust technology and eCommerce strategies, among other substantive growth initiatives. She has had a significant impact on shaping DICK’S inclusive culture, enhancing our exceptional customer service offering and improving the customer experience.

Under Lauren’s leadership, The DICK’S Sporting Goods Foundation developed its signature Sports Matter initiative in 2014, which has enabled over one million children to have access to sports. DICK’S and the DICK’S Sporting Goods Foundation have given over $105 million in grants and sponsorships since 2014 to raise awareness and address the growing issue of underfunded youth sports programs nationwide.

Prior to joining DICK’S, Lauren spent 14 years at PepsiCo in various leadership roles, including CMO of Carbonated Sports Drinks in North America.  Prior to PepsiCo, Lauren was at Wells Fargo Bank and at JP Morgan Chase.    ​

From 2014 to 2018, Lauren served as a member of the board of directors of Sonic Corp; since November 2020, Lauren has served on the YUM Brands! Board of Directors.

Diana Horowitz is senior vice president, advertising sales at fuboTV, the live TV streaming platform that is transforming how people watch sports, news and entertainment.

A highly experienced digital and broadcast sales executive, Horowitz leads the national ad sales team, as well as overseeing ad operations and overall sales and growth strategy for fuboTV and its linear channel, fubo Sports Network.

Prior to joining fuboTV in 2020, Horowitz was vice president, sales for Telestream’s full range of advanced media technologies in the eastern United States. Previously, Horowitz was executive director, sales for IBM Watson Media, also holding positions at Comcast Technology Solutions as global client director and director, VOD sales. Horowitz joined Comcast from Scripps Networks Interactive (now Discovery, Inc.), where she led the digital advertising sales team, northeast region for Food Network and Cooking Channel.

Horowitz started her career at The New York Times Company, where she held numerous leadership roles in both New York and Paris for The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune.

Named Top Women in Media’s 2021 Lifetime Empowerment and Achievement award honoree, Horowitz is a sought-after thought leader at industry conferences and events.

Ms. Lisa Ryan Howard is a senior vice president at The New York Times, responsible for leading advertising teams across all of The Times’ products. She oversees sales, product and b2b marketing, measurement and insights and revenue operations.

Ms. Howard joined the Times Company in February 2016 and has more than 20 years of strategic media experience, including general management and revenue leadership. Prior to her appointment at the Times, she was executive vice president of consumer strategy at WebMD, where she served on the executive team and was responsible for planning, building and launching the company’s video, social and mobile business strategy. Before joining WebMD, Howard was business lead, lifestyles at Yahoo, where she was responsible for leadership and general management of Yahoo’s nine lifestyle properties.

Prior to Yahoo, Howard served as publisher of Billboard, overseeing the company’s magazine, online, licensing, events and sponsorship businesses. Under her leadership, Howard’s team reenergized the brand through experiential activations that included new events and festivals, a successful relaunch of the Billboard Music Awards in 2011, as well as the development of new apps, video programming and strategic partnerships.

Earlier in her career, Howard spent 14 years at Conde Nast in a variety of roles including senior vice president, chief revenue officer of Fairchild Fashion Group, which included WWD and W in their portfolio. She also served as vice president, digital for Conde Nast Media Group and vice president, publisher of Style.com.

Howard has served as an advisory board member to multiple digital startups in the fashion, entertainment and lifestyle space and as an adjunct professor, has taught digital advertising at New York University’s Stern School of Business. She is a fellow at The University of Georgia School of Journalism and was the recipient of The University of Georgia’s Henry W Grady Mid-Career Achievement Award in 2012. Ms Howard was recognized in 2017 among the prestigious “40 Over 40”, ten years after being recognized as one of Advertising Age’s “40 Under 40.”

Ms Howard lives in Brooklyn with her husband, writer/author Manny Howard, and their two children. She competed in the 1988 Olympic Swimming Trials, was an NCAA Scholar-Athlete and enjoys ocean swims and open water racing.

Alysa Hutnik Chairs Kelley Drye’s Privacy and Information Security Practice Group in Washington, DC. She specializes in the areas of privacy, cyber, and advertising law. Her experience ranges from helping clients develop and implement comprehensive privacy programs and data strategies to defending clients in FTC and state attorneys general investigations. Much of Alysa’s practice is focused in the tech space in particular, including adtech, cloud, mobile payment, calling/texting practices and algorithmic decision-making and other big data-related services. Ranked as a leading practitioner in the Privacy & Data Security area by Chambers USA, Chambers Global and Law360, Alysa has received accolades for the dedicated and responsive service she provides to clients. She is also an outside business advisor to Ketch, a data control platform that provides programmatic privacy solutions.

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.

Chance Johnson joined IAS in 2019 to spearhead an accelerated growth plan for IAS and optimize the company’s global sales approach and strategy.

He joins IAS from Amobee where he served as the Senior Vice President and worked with Fortune 500 brands and their agencies to consolidate media investment into a more cohesive programmatic environment. Prior to that Chance was Global Vice President of Sales at Rubicon Project in London where he evangelized the need for a clean, transparent advertising marketplace to their expanding international client base. Chance joined Rubicon Project via acquisition of Chango where he led the sales and client services functions, growing the business from its earliest stage.

Johnson is a proven sales leader with over a decade of multi-country experience managing high-performing commercial sales teams and scaling revenue globally. He graduated from the University of Rhode Island.

Louis Jones is a Media & Marketing Consultant whose career has spanned three decades. Filled with passion, Louis has pushed for strategic impact, innovation, and success through growth. Jones is currently serving as the Brand Safety Officer (BSO) in Residence at the Brand Safety Institute. Previously, Jones was EVP, Media & Data at the 4A’s (American Association of Advertising Agencies) where he jumpstarted the industry focus on brand safety with the creation of the 4A’s APB. In that role, he also focused on how to to amplify its members’ collective voice with various partners and suppliers. He oversaw 4A’s media committees/ task forces, and served, as liaison with industry associations to lead efforts that address industry-wide issues like cross-media measurement and new digital technologies, like distributed ledgers.

Louis joined Maxus/GroupM in the fall of 2009 to lead a new data focused agency model that put digital at the center of communications planning. In his five years at Maxus, Louis grew Maxus into a top 10 Media Agency with 6 offices and over 400 staffers. This growth earned Maxus Adweek’s Agency of the Year honor in 2012.

In his years at Havas, Jones was responsible for Havas Digital’s global services, including product development across the various digital agency networks – digital, direct response, mobile, systems integration, and creativity. Much of time in this role was spent working from Paris and Madrid in order to be closer to the Network’s European and APAC operations. Prior to this, Louis led three years of double-digit growth for Media Contacts’ US operations as EVP, Managing Director USA. Louis had been a part of the Havas Media family since May 2001.


Before joining MPG in 2001, Louis was Executive Director of Organic Online in San Francisco and also served as Managing Director of Diamond Media (dedicated Clorox media unit). His first ten years in advertising were spent at J. Walter Thompson in New York, where he rose to Deputy Media Director before heading to the West Coast. 

Sundeep Kapur advises on regulatory compliance and investigations, incident response and remediation, commercial transactions and other data initiatives involving complex or emerging technologies. He provides tailored and practical guidance to clients, from startups to global corporations, on various privacy laws and regulatory frameworks, including the FTC Act, California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Sundeep also possesses an in-depth technical and legal understanding of the advertising technology (adtech) ecosystem (e.g., connected TV, linear TV, over-the-top media, desktop, mobile). He participates in adtech working groups and is a key contributor to the development of industry-wide privacy compliance solutions. He advises on compliance with self-regulatory regimes developed by the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI), the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), and the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA).

Sundeep is accredited by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) as a Certified Information Privacy Professional in the United States (CIPP/US).

Anthony Katsur is a digital media veteran with more than twenty-five years of executive leadership at the intersection of technology innovation, business strategy, and growth. As Chief Executive Officer for IAB Tech Lab, Katsur is responsible for overseeing product, engineering, membership, and operations teams for the digital advertising industry’s global technical standards-setting organization.

Katsur has previously held business and technology leadership positions at companies including DoubleClick, MediaMath, Rubicon, Sonoboi, and most recently Nexstar Media Group, and more. A sought-after speaker, he has appeared at events including the National Association of Broadcasters, AdAge’s Brand Summit, and Advertising Week and has been quoted in AdAge, Adweek, AdExchanger, Digiday and The Wall Street Journal.

David Kenny was appointed Chief Executive Officer at Nielsen in November 2018.

Kenny has spent his career in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, especially focused on the retail, marketing, and media industries. He has a deep and holistic understanding of media and advertisers and how best to serve them and has been a long time Nielsen customer and partner. Kenny has a proven track record of implementing growth strategies, overseeing strategic transactions and creating value for stakeholders.

Most recently, Kenny served as Senior Vice President of Cognitive Solutions at IBM. There, he oversaw IBM’s artificial intelligence initiatives, using machine learning to support enterprise customers across a large number of verticals, including healthcare, financial services, retail, and media. Prior to that, Kenny was Chairman and Chief Executive of The Weather Company, which was subsequently acquired by IBM.

He previously served as President of Akamai, a cloud platform technology company and Managing Partner of VivaKi, a media company. Earlier, he was co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Digitas, Inc., where he oversaw significant value creation and ultimately the sale of the company to Publicis.

Currently, David serves on the Board of Directors for Best Buy and Teach for America, Throughout his career, Kenny has been an advocate of diversity as a fundamental component of an organization’s culture.

David received his bachelor’s degree in industrial administration from the GM Institute (now Kettering University) and holds a Masters of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.

As Chief Revenue Officer at Veritonic, Korri oversees Business Development, Sales, and Marketing operations. Korri is responsible for driving the company’s growth and revenue by designing and implementing business process models and operational blueprints while establishing strategic partnerships, expanding client business & heightening the visibility of the company’s brand and technology. Prior to joining Veritonic, Korri was COO at ART19, which she transitioned to after serving as CRO at Midroll Media/Stitcher.  A visionary strategist and operations-focused leader, Korri has more than two decades of experience in fast-paced and high growth environments, with a particular focus on scale and monetization. She resides in NYC with her family.

Jim is CEO of Yahoo. With over 20 years of leadership and entrepreneurial experience in technology and media, Jim has a proven track record of driving growth and innovation. Prior to joining Yahoo, Jim was CEO of Tinder, the most popular app for meeting new people, as well as the highest grossing non-gaming app, in the world. Jim joined Tinder after nearly a decade as President and CEO of CBS Interactive, a top 10 global Internet company with brands ranging from CBS All Access to CNET. Jim was also named the first Chief Digital Officer in the history of CBS Corporation.

Greg Laptevsky is the founder of Myro, a refillable body care company, that racked up a 16,000-person waiting list when it launched back in 2018.

Greg was born and raised in the Siberian-border city of Chelyabinsk, Russia, and moved to New York in 2005 to get his BA in Economics & Political Science, and MBA in Marketing from the City University of New York. After stints in personal finance, cars, and wine, he took on the job of leading the customer acquisition function at meal-delivery service Plated. When Plated sold to Albertsons in 2017, Greg decided that whatever his next venture be, it would not only be effective and better for you but also eco-friendly and sustainable.

Stephanie Layser is the VP of Data, Identity and Ad Tech Products & Platforms at News Corp. In her role, she provides thought leadership as a subject matter expert in those areas, while managing cross business initiatives across News Corp’s portfolio of global brands. She also serves as the board representative of the Publisher Taskforce at Prebid.org. Prior to News Corp, Layser founded a digital media consulting business to help publishers understand and utilize programmatic advertising effectively. In her twelve years in advertising, Layser also oversaw ad tech at A Plus (Ashton Kutcher’s Media Start-up), Dailymail.com and New York Post.

Bill Livek has been in the business of measuring consumer behavior for more than three decades.

As Chief Executive Officer and Executive Vice Chairman for Comscore, Mr. Livek’s passion for the media,
marketing and entertainment industries spurs him to be a driving force for innovation in consumer and
audience measurement. Since joining Comscore in 2016, Mr. Livek has also served as the company’s
Executive Vice Chairman & President.

Prior to joining Comscore, Mr. Livek served as Vice Chairman & Chief Executive Officer at Rentrak, where
he spearheaded the next generation of products to precisely measure movies and TV everywhere. Mr.
Livek previously served as Co-President of Experian Research Services, Co-Chair/Co-Owner of Simmons
Market Research Bureau, Co-Founder of Transactional Data Solutions (an LLC with MasterCard), Vice
President of Sales/Marketing for Arbitron and was a principal shareholder in Birch Research, which was
later integrated into Scarborough Research, where he served as President and CEO.

Mr. Livek draws upon his industry experience and audience measurement expertise as a member of the
Board of Trustees for the Advertising Research Foundation, and as a frequent speaker at advertising
industry events. When he’s not working towards the advancement of Comscore’s initiatives, Mr. Livek
loves riding his road bicycle on the weekends. His idea of a great vacation is a scenic, weeklong bike trip

Bob is IBM Senior Vice President, The Weather Company and Alliances. He is responsible for driving growth within the The Weather Company, Watson Advertising, and TradeLens – a blockchain-based platform that is digitizing the global supply chain and transforming trade. In addition, Bob is responsible for driving IBM’s strategic partnership transactions to enable the company’s growth and focus on embedding its hybrid cloud and AI technology platform.

In his previous role as Senior Vice President, Worldwide Ecosystems, Bob successfully launched IBM’s global ecosystem model, guided by an unwavering commitment to open innovation within the ecosystem. He transformed how the company engages with partners and developers to ensure client success using an open hybrid cloud approach infused with AI.

In his role overseeing IBM’s ecosystem of developers, Bob launched Call for Code, the largest and most ambitious effort to bring together the world’s software developers to take on pressing societal issues by using the latest advanced technologies to problem solve and create cutting-edge solutions. Winning solutions are successfully incubated, field-tested, and deployed in communities where they can make the greatest impact, driving immediate and lasting humanitarian progress. To date, more than 500,000 developers and problem solvers across 180 nations have answered the call. Bob joined IBM in 2016 as the company’s first Chief Digital Officer with a mission to change how IBM innovation is delivered and consumed by the world’s leading organizations.

Prior to IBM, Bob served as President of AOL, leading the company through its evolution into a leading, global advertising platform. He also served as CEO of Razorfish, a pioneering digital transformation consultancy helping companies like Cisco, Condé Nast, Ford, Mercedes-Benz and Pfizer redefine their brands for the digital age.

Bob’s experience and passion made him an active member of the TED community, board member for the Partnership for New York City and Aqua Finance, a Blackstone Company and former board member for Williams-Sonoma and Screen Vision Media. He is one of CRN’s 50 “Most Influential” channel chiefs and the author of Converge: Transforming Business at the Intersection of Marketing and Technology.

He began his career as an engineer, graduating from Syracuse University with a BS in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, and holds an MBA from Harvard University.

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

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

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

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

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

Iván Markman, Chief Business Officer at Verizon Media, oversees the unit’s B2B business. He leads the unit’s efforts to create more meaningful and valuable relationships between consumers, publishers, and marketers. Iván brings over 20 years of strategic and operational experience in Ad & Marketing technology, and a strong passion for transforming businesses.

Immediately before joining Verizon Media, Iván served as special advisor to the CEO & Board of Directors of comscore. In his role, he led the organization through a significant operational and strategic turnaround, going back to the public market, and rekindling innovation, operational scale and growth.

Previously, Iván was GM of Neustar’s Marketing Services business. He joined Neustar after its $450M acquisition of MarketShare where he was COO. At MarketShare he grew the business and built the platform globally, increasing its value 15x. Prior to that, Iván was the VP of Corporate Strategy at Yahoo, where he led
global corporate strategy initiatives, including assessing Yahoo’s business portfolio and recommending areas for investment and divestiture. He supported key strategic deals including the ad partnership with Microsoft, as well as a series of acquisitions in the AdTech and MarTech spaces. Iván joined Yahoo when it acquired Overture, a leader in Paid Search where Iván was leading Strategy & Corporate Development. He started his career in Argentina working in various talent, sales & marketing roles at Procter & Gamble.

Illustrative of his passion for helping start-ups evolve into successful businesses, Iván continues to serve on the Board of Directors, and as an investor and advisor in various early stage ventures primarily in Marketing Technology, Artificial Intelligence and Data.

Iván received his Master’s in Business Administration from the University of California Los Angeles’ Anderson School of Management and holds an MS in Finance and a BA in Business & Managerial Economics from the Universidad de San Andrés (Argentina).

John Marshall is the global lead at HP for all things advertising technology related. As a part of the Global Media, Insights and Analytics team he oversees advertising technology strategy and capability enablement for HP’s global marketing team. His current emphasis is building out HP’s global programmatic and media measurement stack. Prior to joining HP, he worked for Razorfish overseeing their US Advertising Services group. His specialties include: marketing, media, programmatic, analytics, measurement strategy, and advertising technology.

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.

Mainak is a data science executive with 20+ years of experience in consumer, media, and marketing tech. As the Chief Data and Research Officer of Nielsen, Mainak leads data science, identity solutions, and AI initiatives. He is responsible for product development. Mainak is passionate about scaling businesses with AI, developing talent, and delivering results. Prior to Nielsen, Mainak held data science leadership roles with GfK, Simulmedia, and Google (DoubleClick).

Mainak completed his M.A and doctoral studies from Brown University. A TED Speaker on data and AI, he was the founding member of the General Assembly’s Data Science Standard Board and a steering committee member of the University of Chicago Booth Business School’s Kilts Center of Marketing.

VideoAmp’s mission is to create a more sophisticated data-driven advertising ecosystem that redefines how media is valued, bought and sold. As Founder & CEO, Ross manifests the company’s mission by ensuring VideoAmp always maintains a performance oriented culture that runs at higher velocities, with higher standards.

One of the “50 vital leaders in tech, media and marketing,” according to Adweek, Kirk is the CEO of GroupM North America (NA) where he leads 6,500 people passionate about shaping the next era of media where advertising works better for people. A member of GroupM’s Global Leadership Team, he is a key player in championing GroupM’s strategy to work with agency and GroupM leadership in the region to use its scale in providing more powerful and effective solutions for clients through the development of technology-enabled services.

With $17.6 billion in media investment billings across the U.S. and Canada, GroupM owns a 22% market share in the world’s largest region. Kirk is particularly driven to help GroupM lead the way in driving real change across the industry to find a new balance of making advertising less interruptive and a valued part of the media experience. He also believes that, as the desire for brands to play their part in leading the way toward real change grows stronger, GroupM is the one to help clients be authentic and bold in this moment.

Kirk served as the Global CEO of Choreograph, and was responsible for launching WPP’s global data company which brought together over 700 technologists, product developers, and data scientists. Kirk and Choreograph focused on helping marketers and brands realize the value of their first party data in the fast-changing data landscape.

Kirk joined GroupM from WarnerMedia’s Xandr where he most recently served as Chief Business Officer in charge of the go to market functions including sales, communications, product marketing, and marketing strategy and execution after holding the role of Chief Marketing Officer for nearly two years.

Prior to AT&T, Kirk was President of PubMatic, the marketing automation software company, and held roles with Time Inc., Fortune|MoneyGroup and CNET Networks, among others.

Throughout his career, Kirk received many accolades including being named to Ebony Magazine’s Power 100 list in 2018, Adweek’s 2014 “12 Stars of Ad Tech Who are Building the Future of the Industry Right Now” list and Business Insider’s 2014 “The 46 Most Important African-Americans in Technology” list, among others.

Kirk is a founding member of the Black Executive CMO Alliance (BECA). He currently serves on the Board of Directors for Elanco (NYSE: ELAN), and is a member of the prestigious Executive Leadership Council. He also serves on several other professional and not-for-profit boards including the Ad Council, Advertising Week Advisory Council, and is the co-chair of MOUSE/CI.

Stephanie Mehta is CEO and chief content officer of Mansueto Ventures, the business media company that publishes Fast Company and Inc. She previously spent nearly four years as editor-in-chief of Fast Company, overseeing its print, digital, and live journalism.

Mehta began her career as a business reporter at The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Virginia, before moving to The Wall Street Journal to cover small business, venture capital and technology.

She has held senior writing and editing positions at Fortune, Bloomberg Media and Vanity Fair, where she coedited the annual New Establishment and curated the invitation-only New Establishment Summit.

She is the author of Fast Company Innovation by Design: Creative Ideas that Transform the Way We Live and Work, published in September 2021. She serves on the boards of the Women’s Forum of New York, the American Society of Magazine Editors, and Airbel Impact Lab, the research and innovation arm of the International Rescue Committee.

Mehta received a BA in English and an MS in journalism from Northwestern University. A Chicago-area native, she now lives with her husband and two daughters in Scarsdale, New York.

Jana Meron is an award-winning programmatic & data strategist with a proven track record for increasing revenue across media organizations. As an early adopter of programmatic advertising, Jana played a pivotal role in transforming Insider Inc. into an industry pioneer with a sophisticated programmatic strategy. She understands industry trends, changes, and opportunities, and uses those signals to formulate strategy for future growth.

In her current role as SVP of Programmatic & Data Strategy, she oversees the holistic programmatic revenue and data strategy across Insider (Business, Life, and News). Jana manages the programmatic sales team and has exponentially grown programmatic revenue, which is on pace to be over $45MM in 2020-2021.

Jana created Insider’s strategy to account for the implications of GDPR and the removal of third party cooking trackers from browsers, including moving to a CDP/DMP. Jana is responsible for educating the entire business organization, encompassing sales, media planning & strategy, marketing, and customer service on programmatic and data capabilities. In addition, she developed SÀGA, Insider’s first-party data platform, which resulted in 400% year-over-year revenue growth. Jana also works with IAB Leadership on implications of Ad Fraud and the implementation of ads.txt and other initiatives on an ongoing basis.

Jana’s dynamic work has led to her receiving Ad Monsters 2018 Digital Media Leadership Award. Under Jana’s lead, Insider was voted one of AdExchanger’s Top 10 Programmatic Publishers in 2018 and 2017. Regarded as a programmatic thought leader, Jana is a frequent speaker at industry events. Most recently, she spoke during Permutive’s Global Summit on their “The Great Privacy Reset” panel. Jana also serves as a mentor to her team and helps them navigate their careers.

She was previously the Vice President of Programmatic & Data Strategy at Insider, where she increased programmatic revenue from $1MM to more than $19MM in her first 4 years. Before that, Jana worked at CBS Local Digital as Director of Secondary Revenue, where she was responsible for a majority of their indirect revenue across all CBS Local Digital Properties (over 100 sites). She was also an early employee at Google, where she closed 157 deals, totaling over 300 mid-tier to premium publishers in 6 months, which represented 50% of the publisher network by the end of her 3 year.

Jana resides in Rye Brook, NY with her husband, their two daughters Abby & Joley and their dog Clover. She’s an avid reader, lover of the beach, and enjoys spending her free time with family and friends.

As the SVP, Chief Strategy Officer, Libby oversees thought leadership and content development for IAB, including the IAB Centers of Excellence. These include The Experience Center, Programmatic and Data Center, Media Center, and research functions. Additionally, Libby is responsible for editorial and content strategies for all IAB events and programming.

Most recently, Libby served as the Global President of MRM Commerce, where she launched their Strategy, Consulting, and Digital Transformation practice. Previous positions include President of The Born Group, where she focused on Digital Marketing, Commerce and Content, as well as Managing Director of iCrossing (part of Hearst). Throughout her career, Libby has partnered with clients such as Nestle, General Motors, Anheuser Busch, American Express, and Geico, among others, to help them achieve their business goals through innovative digital solutions.

Hafeezah Muhammad is the founder and CEO of Youme Healthcare, a digital behavioral and mental healthcare practice for children, teens and their families with Medicaid health coverage. Her team is also developing a HIPAA compliant electronic health record (EHR) platform for mental health professionals to help them optimize the patient experience.

Prior to leading Youme Healthcare, Ms. Muhammad spent 12 years at Verizon and served in various leadership roles that encompassed customer experience, digital experience optimization, sales, and business operations. She later joined Thriveworks, a company focused on counseling therapy and psychiatry, as Vice President of Sales and Customer Experience, which sparked her passion for positive mental health and well-being for children. Ms. Hafeezah chairs the non-profit STEM Love, which builds STEM labs in underprivileged communities. She is also a founding member of Chief, DC, a private network that promotes and supports female executives and launches women into positions of power.

Ms. Muhammad is a motivational speaker on a mission to help others unleash their killer instinct in life and business. A native of St.Thomas, United States Virgin Islands, she enjoys the sand, sun, and sea.