Lenard “Charlamagne Tha God” McKelvey is an entertainment mogul who has earned a reputation as one of the most authentic voices in media. As a Radio Hall of Fame inductee, best-selling author, in-demand TV personality, and producer, he is a singular shaper of culture.

An innovator and industry leader in audio, he is the co-host of iHeartMedia’s The Breakfast Club morning show, which drives millions of listeners and viewers daily on radio and BET. Charlamagne expanded his collaboration with iHeart to create The Black Effect Podcast Network, home to multiple chart-topping podcasts and the first podcast network specifically built for Black listeners. Alongside Kevin Hart, he is also the executive producer of scripted podcasts like Brokedown Prophets, Finding Tamika, Unleash for Love, and Summer of ‘85, which have won an Audie, Webby, and the prestigious duPont award. He is also the co-creator and host of the popular podcast The Brilliant Idiots.

Charlamange is the author of The New York Times Best Seller Black Privilege: Opportunity Comes to Those Who Create It and the best-selling Shook One: Anxiety Playing Tricks on Me. His tremendous success as an author led to a partnership with Simon & Schuster Publishing, now home to his imprint Black Privilege Publishing that has curated books such as Invisible Generals, My Black Country and Shallow Waters.

Charlamagne is an Emmy-winning producer through his production company CThaGod World. He has hosted several network TV programs, including the Stephen Colbert executive-produced Hell of a Week on Comedy Central.

Acting on his passion for mental health awareness, Charlamagne founded the Mental Wealth Alliance. The foundation works to destigmatize mental health in the Black community by expanding the pool of professionals in the health and wellness space. Additionally, he is an Ambassador for the Food Bank for New York City.

As GM of Audience Measurement at Nielsen, Ameneh Atai is responsible for leading global digital and advanced TV commercial strategy, sales and business development 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 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 three 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 co-founder, chair, and CEO of Vox Media, the leader in modern media. As CEO, Bankoff oversees all aspects of the business, which includes journalism and content across nearly 20 award-winning, scaled, and beloved brands such as Vox, SB Nation, New York Magazine, The Dodo, and The Verge; a studios division that produces informative and entertaining television series, streaming video, podcasts, and film; premium advertising solutions; and a print magazine.

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 Buchheim has worked in digital advertising for 20+ years, driven to ensure content and services remain accessible and useful. He is a product-oriented leader who has led organizations to define, launch, and manage demand-side platforms, ad exchanges, targeting systems, identity solutions, audience insights tools, measurement and verification platforms, and other large-scale products/programs in advertising and beyond.

Dennis founded advisory firm ThinkMedium (www.thinkmedium.tech) in 2023 to advance his mission, helping ads and media clients navigate shifts and opportunities in privacy and data strategy, safety, and efficiency.

He was previously a VP at Meta, recruited to collaborate with the advertising ecosystem on privacy, measurement, and trust/safety, with scope later expanded to data science and enablement across business products. This role built on Dennis’ tenure as CEO of advertising technical standards body IAB Tech Lab and his prior ad tech product/business leadership experience at Yahoo and Microsoft.

Before “finding advertising” in 2002, Dennis held engineering and product roles at Apple, Oracle, Actioneer, and iHarvest (which he co-founded), working on a range of enterprise and consumer software products. Dennis earned dual degrees from Brown University, in computer science and business economics.

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 serves as a Director of Strategy for OneTrust’s Consent & Preference Management products. In his role, Alex co-ordinates with customers and partners to deliver products that drive engaging user experiences while building trust and demonstrating regulatory compliance. Alex also holds CIPP/E and CIPM certifications from the IAPP.

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 Chief Connectivity & Ecosystem Officer 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.

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.

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.

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), a subsidiary of NPR owned in partnership with PBS and WGBH. As a full-service corporate sponsorship organization, National Public Media supports the continued growth of NPR and the public media system via funding from corporate sponsors across multiple platforms, from broadcast radio and podcasts, to the NPR app and NPR.org. National Public Media includes NPM Creative, its in-house creative studio offering brands long-form custom audio production, including branded podcast production. NPM Creative won the 2022 PR Daily Content Marketing Award for Best Branded Podcast in partnership with YouTube.


Outside of National Public Media, Garrubbo sits on the IAB Executive, IAB Finance and IAB Audio Committees, working with leaders across the industry to build industry standards, best practices and resources for audio marketing.


Prior to NPR, Garrubbo spent more than 20 years growing marketing and sales teams, launching brands and building companies, with extensive experience in both legacy and emerging media. She was one of the builders of women.com, one of the first websites for women, and BlogHer, a network of bloggers which brought independent voices to millions of readers. Garrubbo built advertising sales teams for Oxygen Media, Discovery Communications and in syndicated television. She sits on the Board of Directors of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), 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, Partner and Chair of Kelley Drye’s Privacy and Information Security practice, provides practical legal advice in all areas of privacy, data security, and advertising law, with a strong focus on adtech and the intersection of privacy and marketing practices. Alysa has a strong pulse on the ever-evolving privacy legal landscape, and frequently defends companies in privacy and advertising matters before the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and state attorneys general. Alysa is ranked as a leading practitioner in the Privacy & Data Security area by Chambers USA, Chambers Global and Law360 and is a frequent speaker at conferences around the country.

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, commercial transactions, and other data initiatives involving complex or emerging technologies. He possesses an in-depth technical and legal understanding of the adtech ecosystem (e.g., connected TV, linear TV, over-the-top media, desktop, mobile) and is a key contributor to the development of industry-wide adtech privacy solutions. He also advises on compliance with self-regulatory regimes developed by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), Network Advertising Initiative (NAI), and Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA).

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.

As Founder & CEO, Ross McCray manifests the company’s mission by ensuring VideoAmp always maintains a performance-oriented culture that runs at higher velocities, with higher standards than most. He relentlessly looks for and exploits every opportunity possible to remove slack in the system by expecting higher quality outcomes, stepping up the pace and growing people out of their comfort zone.

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.

Dawn Ostroff is the Chief Content and Advertising Business Officer at Spotify, the world’s most popular global audio streaming service.  At Spotify, Ostroff oversees the company’s content businesses which includes music and podcasts as well as the platform’s global advertising business. She joined the company in August 2018. 

As Chief Content and Advertising Business Officer, Ostroff leads all aspects of content, advertising and distribution operations, including all original content, and industry and creator relationships globally while driving partnerships with brands and marketers worldwide to deliver impact for their businesses and Spotify alike. She oversees Music, Studios, which includes podcasts and video, Creator Marketplace, Content Marketing, Content Business & Strategy, Ad Sales, Revenue Product Development, and Partner Solutions departments at Spotify.  

Prior to her role at Spotify, Ostroff served as President of Condé Nast Entertainment (CNE), a studio and distribution network with entertainment content across film, television, premium digital video, social, and virtual reality. 

Ostroff helped found Conde Nast Entertainment in 2011. Ostroff oversaw the company’s feature film and television operations and launched its digital advertising sales division. Culling from IP across Condé Nast’s iconic publishing brands, including Vogue, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, GQ and WIRED, CNE developed many film and television projects with Ostroff serving as a producer or executive producer, on projects including films “Only the Brave”, “First Monday in May,” and the upcoming “Old Man and the Gun”, as well as the Netflix series “Last Chance U” and Discovery’s “Vanity Fair Confidential”. Ostroff also oversaw CNE’s digital video, which produces over 5,000 videos per year, and drives over 1 billion views a month.

 
Prior to joining Condé Nast, Ostroff was president of entertainment for The CW broadcast network – a joint venture of CBS and Warner Bros. that she helped launch in January 2006. Ostroff was responsible for programming, digital initiatives, branding, marketing, research and sales. As president, she developed several groundbreaking hit series, including “Gossip Girl” and “The Vampire Diaries.”  

From 2002 to 2006, Ostroff served as president of the UPN Network, a subsidiary of CBS, where she developed the popular reality series “America’s Next Top Model,” which has ran for 23 seasons. Before UPN, Ostroff served as executive vice president of entertainment at Lifetime Television. In the five years that Ostroff led Lifetime Entertainment (1996–2002), the network rose from sixth place to become the #1-rated cable network in prime time.

A seasoned brand marketer and general manager with over 25 years of experience, Kimberly is widely recognized as a leading business executive that is known for driving transformative growth among existing and emerging Brands and Companies. She sites her ability to stay connected with consumers and culture, cultivate strong collaborative partnerships, unlock revenue growth opportunities, and build inspired and empowered teams as keys to her success.

Kimberly recently joined ViacomCBS as EVP, Chief Marketing Officer, BET Networks. In this role she is responsible for managing and implementing brand strategy across all platforms including the BET and BET Her linear networks, BET+ streaming, BET Social and stewards the highly successful BET Live Events business.

Prior to joining BET, Kimberly was the Chief Operating and Brand Officer, Sundial Brands where she partnered with founder and CEO, Richelieu Dennis, to craft the overall strategic direction for future growth across the entire Sundial portfolio, including SheaMoisture, Nubian Heritage, Madam C.J. Walker Beauty Culture, and Nyakio. Kimberly oversaw Operations, Marketing, International, and Sales, and played a leading role in the launch and marketing of the $100M New Voices Fund in support of Women of Color Entrepreneurs.

Prior to Sundial, Kimberly was Chief Marketing Officer of the Beauty Division of Coty, Inc., the makers of several fragrances and iconic beauty brands such as COVERGIRL, Clairol, Sally Hansen, and Rimmel. During her time at Coty, Kimberly stewarded the U.S. relaunch of several flagship brands, including Rimmel’s Street Beauty, the modernization of Sally Hansen, and Clairol’s Nice N’ Easy relaunch which delivered the most significant innovation in the hair color category in the last 50 years.

Prior to joining Coty, Kimberly worked at The Coca-Cola Company (TCCC) for 16 years in various roles in North America and Global. Her roles included Vice President, Venturing and Emerging Brands (VEB) where she was responsible for leading marketing, innovation and assessing high growth merger and acquisition opportunities of emerging beverage brands. She is widely known for her leadership, turnaround and delivery of record growth of the $3.5B Sprite and Flavors portfolio. During her leadership, she relaunched The Coca-Cola Company’s 2nd and 3rd largest global brands and led key marketing partnerships with the NBA, LeBron James, Drake and many others.

Kimberly started her career in Brand Management at Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati, OH. She has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communications & Business from Howard University and a MBA from Clark Atlanta University. She has been recognized as one of the Top Marketing Executives to Watch, interviewed by leading industry publications and has spoken on a number of panels on Women’s empowerment, how to expand brands globally and effectively market to youth, millennials and multicultural consumers. She is actively involved in many professional and social organizations and has been nationally recognized for her efforts to address childhood literacy.

As CEO, Nicolle and her team are working to build a smarter, more effective television ecosystem by partnering with and empowering brands to seamlessly connect with audiences wherever and whenever they watch content.

Nicolle previously served as Global Chief Operating Officer at GroupM’s mPLATFORM where she was responsible for global product management, strategic partnerships, and technology development across the largest media investment management organization in the world.

Prior to mPLATFORM, Nicolle was a central figure in the success of Xaxis, a pioneering programmatic digital media business, serving first as Global Chief Revenue Officer, followed by Global Chief Operating Officer. During her tenure as CRO, Xaxis grew revenue to over one billion dollars. As Global COO she oversaw product and technology development, business operations, human resources, and strategic partnerships. Key highlights include leading the audience data activation platform and launching the company’s machine learning technology. She also played an instrumental role in the sale of Open AdStream to AppNexus.

Prior to Xaxis, Nicolle was the President of 24/7 Real Media where she led the company’s businesses in North America and Europe. Earlier at 24/7, she served in the roles of VP, SVP, and EVP, Global Media and Technology Product Management, with responsibility for the overall health and growth of the global business. In these roles, she drove the evolution of one of the industry’s most significant publisher technology platforms and the development of the first global data management platform suite for agencies. She also led the deployment and integration of the joint venture partnership between WPP and Dentsu across Asia.

A recognized leader in the media industry, Nicolle is a member of the Ad Council Board of Directors, IAB Board of Directors, and the VAB Board of Directors. In 2020, she was the recipient of Adexchanger’s Leadership in Advertising award and named to Cablefax’s 100 and Cablefax’s Most Powerful Women. Previously, Pangis was named to the Adweek 50 list, AdAge’s 40 Under 40, Crain’s 40 Under 40, Business Insider’s 30 Most Powerful Women in Mobile, Cynopsis’ Top Women in Media and Multichannel News’ Women to Watch. She is an active supporter of SOS Children’s Villages, City Year, and StepUp Network, and proud leader of her daughters’ Girl Scout troops.

Vanessa Pappas is the Chief Operating Officer of TikTok, overseeing the strategic business direction and growth of TikTok’s global operations, including content, marketing, user growth, and product. The TikTok platform has scaled to over 150 markets and reaches hundreds of millions of monthly active users around the world.

Previously, Vanessa served over 7 years at YouTube where she was most recently the Global Head of Creative Insights, overseeing YouTube’s strategic growth initiatives to drive YouTube’s daily active user base across key markets and user segments. Prior to this, Vanessa was the Global Head of Audience Development, YouTube, focused on developing audience growth strategies for creators, media publishers, labels and artists. In this role, Vanessa developed the YouTube Creator Playbook, the definitive resource for building viewership on YouTube, which reached over 20MM creators during her time.

Vanessa received two Masters degrees in Media from the New School and the University of Queensland.

Todd Parsons joined Criteo as Chief Product Officer in August 2020. He is responsible for product strategy and new product innovation to diversify and transform Criteo’s platform offerings. For over a decade Todd has built marketing solutions at the intersection of consumer identity and data. Prior to Criteo, his team established OpenX as the first people-based programmatic marketplace. As CPO of SocialCode, Todd developed products to activate and measure first-party audiences across Facebook, Amazon, YouTube and other platforms. Earlier, Todd led Acxiom’s Marketing Services business and founded two venture-backed startups; Aditive, acquired by Acxiom in 2014, and BuzzLogic, the first SaaS for social media measurement and analytics.

As the VP and GM of Marketing Solutions for T-Mobile Mike Peralta is responsible for driving T-Mobile’s targeted advertising, measurements, and insights business. Mike has over 20 years of extensive domestic and international experience in technology and media. He has served in a variety of executive roles across publishing and ad technology in companies like Criteo, AudienceScience, MediaMath, AOL, Advertising.com, and most recently as Global CRO at Future PLC.

He holds a BS degree in Environmental and Civil Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and has done graduate work in Management and Public Policy from New York University. In addition, he serves as an advisory board member to a number of start-ups and VC funds and did a stint as an Assistant Dean for a semester at Sea Voyages. 

Carryl Pierre-Drews is an entrepreneurial marketing executive experienced in driving transformation and innovation to stay ahead of the ever-evolving media ecosystem. With a passion for data-driven storytelling that connects brands with fans, combined with a builder personality, Carryl has a reputation for devising compelling and differentiated positioning and bringing it to market effectively. Establishing marketing teams of extraordinarily talented people and becoming their biggest cheerleader is at the heart of her success. 

Previously, Carryl held the title of Vice President of Marketing at Fullscreen, a next-gen social marketing agency, where she built and led the agency’s brand marketing, PR, digital/social channels, influencer engagements, and global industry activations featuring marketers from American Eagle, AT&T, HP, Marriott, Mars, Mattel, Visa and more. During her tenure, she launched the proprietary audience insights series “Fullscreen Confidential,” which secured a 2018 ANA Global ACE Award. Carryl also led the agency’s foray into Cannes Lions with the 2017 short film “Future Five: Most Popular Gaming Lifestyles” for the Live Stage, as well as the 2018 Entertainment Stage panel “Action!: Diversity in Filmmaking — Beyond Empowerment to Execution” for AT&T’s Hello Lab Mentorship program featuring Emmy® winner Lena Waithe. Additionally, she realigned the PR strategy and secured high-impact digital and broadcast coverage, driving a 1,000% increase in impressions in 2019. Carryl was instrumental in catalyzing key strategic decisions that drove business growth, elevated visibility, and increased shareholder value positioning Fullscreen for the AT&T acquisition in 2018 and eventual WarnerMedia integration in 2019.  

Gruia Pitigoi-Aron is the Senior Vice President of Product for The Trade Desk. In his role, Gruia oversees teams that are responsible for all product management, user experience, and enterprise solutions at TTD. Closely working with all internal Trade Desk business teams, engineering, clients, and partners is a common theme as they aim to ship the right product at the right time with global impact and scale.

Prior to joining the Trade Desk, Gruia spent 10 years at Microsoft as a Product Manager in various capacities, while working on Outlook.com/Hotmail, Windows Live Agents, and BizTalk Server. The general focus was always on core parts of the systems, with the largest amount of time spent scaling and managing Hotmail’s ever increasing storage infrastructure.

Gruia received his M.S. in Computer Science from the University of California: Los Angeles, and his bachelor’s degree in Computer Science for the University of California: Berkeley. He is based in the Trade Desk’s offices in San Jose, CA.

Christena Pyle is Chief Equity Officer of dentsu Americas. She is a driving force for diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging at dentsu, as well as a champion for meaningful progress across the broader creative industry.

In her current role, Christena leads DEI strategy and spearheaded dentsu’s first dedicated DEI report, setting the bar for transparency, accountability and follow-through in the industry. She partners with business leaders to embed DEI into ways of working and guides major initiatives such as dentsu’s 2025 representation goals, in addition to advocating for dentsu’s Business Resource Groups (BRGs), leading conversations that drive cultural fluency, and pushing for an environment that centers intersectionality and prioritizes wellbeing. Christena collaborates with our clients, partners and industry organizations to accelerate change.

Prior to joining dentsu, Christena served as Executive Director, Advertising, at TIME’S UP. In this role, she drove cross-industry impact beyond advertising and marketing, spearheading the development of TIME’S UP’s Guide to Equity and Inclusion During Crisis, which was lauded in Fast Company as “guidance disrupting leadership’s reaction to crisis.”

Prior to TIME’S UP, Christena was Omnicom Group’s Director of Diversity and Inclusion, responsible for accelerating diversity, equity, and inclusion outcomes for underrepresented communities across the global network and carrying forward the company’s cultural vision: becoming an example of sustainable diversity and inclusion for corporations worldwide.

In addition to her role at Omnicom, Christena pushed to expand and deepen the conversation around inclusion in her role as Director of ADCOLOR, where she helped to launch the ADCOLOR Conference, ADCOLOR Awards, and ADCOLOR Futures programs, all of which spotlight the importance of diversity and community in the creative and tech industries. Through these efforts, along with her involvement in organizations like the 4A’s MAIP and Ad Club of New York as well as speaking engagements at Cannes, Advertising Week, Ad Age, and 3% Conference, she has been deeply involved in shaping the direction creative industries have now adopted around inclusion.

Throughout her career, Christena has received numerous awards and recognition for her leadership, activism, and diversity efforts. In 2021, she was inducted to AAF Hall of Achievement, received Jack Avrett Volunteer Spirit Award, named Ad Age 40 Under 40. Previously she was also named to the Black List 100, received The AD Club of New York Icons, Rockstar & Innovators Award, named to Adweek’s 2019 Women Trailblazers list, which celebrates women who are breaking down barriers and opening up opportunities for others, and received the first-ever Advertising Week “Future Is Female” Award for her proven achievements, demonstrated ability to affect organizational change, commitment to external impact, and capacity to mentor others. Christena was also listed as Adweek’s 2018 Young Influentials, which celebrates media, marketing, and tech talents innovating from AR to Activism, Data to Diversity.

Christena’s passion, optimism, and drive to inspire change propel her tireless work to improve creative industries, by making them safer, more welcoming, and equitable to people of all kinds — and ultimately, more successful. She is most proud of running all 26.2 miles of the 2019 New York City Marathon alongside her partner and on behalf of the TIME’S UP Foundation.

Mandy Rassi is the VP and head of marketing for The Kroger Co., where she leads the development of the company’s marketing strategy, plans, and execution. Her team includes brand strategy, planning, performance marketing, media, and Kroger’s internal creative agency. Previously, Ms. Rassi served as VP of analytics for 84.51°, Kroger’s data and analytics subsidiary, and spent 14 years at Procter & Gamble in a variety of consumer insight and strategy roles.

Mark was appointed CEO of WPP in September 2018. Having held multiple leadership positions at WPP since he joined in 1989, Mark has a deep understanding of the industry. As Head of Strategy and then CEO of WPP Digital he was responsible for WPP’s first moves into technology. In 2015, he became Global CEO of Wunderman, which he transformed into one of the world’s leading creative, data and technology agencies. 

Earlier in his career, Mark co-founded internet start-up WebRewards and specialised in media and marketing as a principal at consultancy Booz Allen Hamilton. He was voted the industry’s Most Influential Person of 2019 in Econsultancy’s Top 100 Digital Agencies report and was recognised as a HERoes Champion of Women in Business in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021. Mark was awarded Fellow of the IPA status for outstanding services to the industry in the IPA’s 2021 New Year’s Honours.

Advertising Executive, digital media entrepreneur, Shenan is SVP, Head of Media for L’Oréal, Shenan is responsible for elevating the quality of consumer connections for the L’Oréal USA brands.

An entrepreneurial business leader with over 20 years of experience, Shenan previously led the GSK and Verizon Power of One solutions for Publicis and lead the L’Oréal business and Digital Practice at Wavemaker. Prior to her tenure at Wavemaker, Shenan founded the digital marketing agency Morpheus Media, which became renowned for its work with premier luxury, fashion and retail clients. Over the course of her career, Shenan has worked with an impressive roster of blue-chip brands across various categories including The New York Times, Neiman Marcus, LVMH, Net-A-Porter, Lord & Taylor, Tiffany & Co., Chanel, A&E Networks, Vimeo, IFC, Sundance and The Economist.

Shenan resides in Bronxville, New York with her husband, two children and their beagle Pebbles, named for the Flintstones character who grows up to be a female ad exec.

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

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

Amanda Richman is a respected leader in the advertising and media industry, renowned for driving change to accelerate digital growth. As the former North America CEO of Mindshare, she orchestrated agency-wide transformations, earning prestigious ‘Agency of the Year’ accolades from Mediapost and Campaign US in 2022. Amanda also served as the U.S. CEO of Wavemaker, where she oversaw a successful merger of GroupM agencies, earning Adweek’s ‘Agency of the Year’ in 2020. Amanda’s accomplishments extend beyond her corporate positions, receiving recognition such as New York Women in Communications ‘Matrix Award’ and Campaign’s ‘Female Frontier Award,’ and chairing the American Advertising Federation (AAF) Board. Amanda currently serves as an Executive in Residence for the Interactive Advertising Bureau and Progress Partners, an investment bank and corporate advisory firm.

Julian is the Director of Product for Privacy at Roku and oversees strategy & development of consumer and partner/advertiser privacy products. As a strong champion for privacy, he is responsible for consumer-facing privacy settings & controls across Roku devices and services as well as privacy-safe data collaboration with partners and advertisers.

Prior to joining Roku, Julian spent several years in the ad tech, B2B and consumer spaces focusing on product development, growth & international expansion. Julian enjoys living in Venice, California together with his wife.

Mark Risis leads Strategy & Ecosystem for PepsiCo Global Data + Analytics, a division of the new Strategy and Transformation global function. 

In this transformational role at PepsiCo, he works across the entire PepsiCo enterprise to design and collaboratively implement the company’s efforts in data strategy, partnerships and data sourcing, governance, modeling, management, and analytics/AI to drive growth and efficiencies that fuel the broader Digital Transformation. Mark is responsible for Enterprise Data Strategy, Data Partnerships and Acquisition, Data Innovation, Monetization and is a key stakeholder in the overarching Data/AI value chain that fuels the company’s digital capabilities.

A graduate of Duke University, he has been a transformational change leader and influencer for multiple enterprises including LiveRamp, IBM, The Weather Company, and TiVo.  On a personal note, Mark is an avid baker (especially old-world style sourdough) and thoroughly addicted to golf. ​

Randall Rothenberg is the Executive Chair of the Interactive Advertising Bureau, the trade association for digital media and marketing in the United States. Among the IAB’s 750 member companies are such major platforms as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Snap; the nation’s most important ad-supported media companies, including The New York Times, Walt Disney Co., NBC Universal, ViacomCBS, Hearst Magazines, Spotify, Verizon Media, Hulu, Warner Media, LinkedIn, and Meredith; incumbent and disruptor brands, including Coca-Cola, Walmart, Procter & Gamble, Hubble Contacts, ThirdLove, General Motors, Johnson & Johnson, and Citigroup; and scores of technology and data companies, among them Mediamath, LiveRamp, Quantcast, and Pubmatic.

With these members and its 47 affiliate associations on every inhabited continent, the IAB and its sister technology-standards group, the IAB Tech Lab, serve as the digital marketing industry’s public policy and lobbying organization, market and consumer research center, training and development base, and hub for the development of standards and best practices.

Mr. Rothenberg joined the IAB in January 2007 as President and Chief Executive Officer, and led the organization until becoming Executive Chair in September 2020. During his tenure, the organization became one of the largest and most influential media and marketing trade bodies in the world, helping to develop technical standards, self-regulation, government regulation, market and consumer research, and professional development programs to protect consumer privacy, foster brand and media revenue growth, improve data security, and reduce supply chain friction in the digital marketing industry.

Prior to his IAB role, Mr. Rothenberg was the Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Director of Intellectual Capital at Booz Allen Hamilton, the international strategy and technology consulting firm, where he oversaw business development, knowledge management, and thought leadership activities, and directed the award-winning quarterly business magazine strategy+business, Strategy+Business Books, www.strategy-business.com, and other electronic and print publications for senior business executives.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Rothenberg spent six years at The New York Times, where he was the technology editor and politics editor of the Sunday magazine, the daily advertising columnist, and a media and marketing reporter. For 10 years, he was a marketing and media columnist for Advertising Age. Mr. Rothenberg has written for a score of major national magazines, among them Esquire, GQ, The Nation, The New York Times Magazine, and New York Magazine. He is the author of four books, including Where the Suckers Moon: An Advertising Story (Alfred A. Knopf, 1994), a critically-acclaimed chronicle of the birth, evolution, and death of a single advertising campaign.

Mr. Rothenberg, an avid nature, urban, and portrait photographer, serves on the Board of Directors of the International Center of Photography and the Board of Overseers of the Columbia Journalism Review. He received an undergraduate degree in Classics from Princeton and lives in New York City.

John has been a leader in digital media technology for over 20 years and brings significant experience and a long track record of success. He joined PubMatic in 2017 as VP, Engineering and was responsible for the product vision and technical execution of SDK and Unified Ad Server technology. In his current role of Chief Technology officer, John is responsible for establishing the company’s technical vision and positioning PubMatic for future growth.

John previously served as vice president of engineering at DoubleClick. At that time, DFP was a new product, with one customer. During John’s tenure, they experienced growth to over 3,000 publishers worldwide. In addition to delivering DFP, John was responsible for delivering DFA and DartMail. John was also in charge of the development for NetGravity’s on-prem ad server system after the merger. At DoubleClick, John began and grew the product management function.

After DoubleClick, John joined adMarketplace as COO & CTO, where he was in charge of product management. While there, John created and delivered eBay Keywords, in partnership with eBay. John then joined NYC-based ad network Undertone as CTO. At Undertone, John created the ad server to support their rapidly growing business. John also built and delivered the extensive video and rich-media ad system that Undertone was known for.

Prior to PubMatic, John was CTO at Vungle. At Vungle, a large CPI-based in-app video ad network, John was able to overhaul the infrastructure, enabling the company to fulfill its ambitious growth trajectory. John also delivered a new SDK that was MRAID compatible, providing the flexibility to empower the in-app video user experience.

John is a graduate of Columbia University.

Gyanda Sachdeva is a Vice President of Product Management at LinkedIn. She leads product development for LinkedIn Marketing Solutions, which spans LinkedIn’s Advertising products and its Pages ecosystem. Prior to this, Gyanda led product development for LinkedIn’s Consumer Subscription products and its Commerce platform. She is a Fellow at Aspen Institute’s First Movers Program, and the co-founder of LinkedIn’s Women in Product Organization. She spent her early career in Investment Banking at Thomas Weisel Partners and Merrill Lynch. Gyanda holds a Bachelors in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University, and a Masters in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University.

Allison Schiff is a managing editor for AdExchanger.com, where she covers mobile, Facebook, cross-device, measurement, privacy and the app economy. Previously, she was senior digital strategist at Direct Marketing News, where she blogged regularly and handled Web and social strategy. Allison received her M.A. in journalism from the Dublin Institute of Technology in Ireland (her favorite place), and a B.A. in history and English from Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass.

Joshua is the CEO and Co-Publisher at Schneps Media, the largest local media company in New York City publishing over 40 newspapers and magazines and over 15 local websites. Schneps Media publishes two daily newspapers that cater to approximately two million readers per week. Joshua graduated with a degree in finance from Indiana University Bloomington and started his career as an analyst at Bank of America in 2000.

Phil Schraeder is an executive and recognized thought leader in digital advertising and contextual technologies…who loves fashion and EDM music. As Chief Executive Officer of GumGum, the leading contextual intelligence company, Phil Schraeder believes that we don’t need to know who people are in order to deliver relevant, engaging and effective digital advertising. As the CEO, he is responsible for GumGum’s success in leading the industry in privacy-first, contextual intelligence technologies based on a consumer’s mindset, and not their personal data. Phil is passionate about making advertising experiences better for consumers by ushering the industry into mindset-first, privacy-forward solutions in an exciting and fast-moving digital ecosystem.

Schraeder, who joined GumGum in 2011, served previously as the company’s President, Chief Operating Officer, and Chief Financial Officer. In those roles, he developed the management, revenue, planning, accounting, controls and human resources infrastructures that supported the company’s rapid expansion and growth. Prior to joining GumGum, Schraeder wore a variety of finance and accounting-based hats at companies like Verifi, RealD, New Regency Entertainment, and KPMG.

Phil regularly contributes to outlets like Advertising Week, Entrepreneur, and AdExchanger, and frequently speaks at engagements and industry events such as Cannes, AdExchanger Industry Preview, the IAB and the 4A’s. In 2022, Phil was a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, Greater LA program and in 2024 was named to Campaign US’s 40 Over 40.

Schraeder is a fierce advocate for LGBTQIA+ equality and lives by the mantra, “Don’t spend time with anyone or anywhere you can’t be your authentic self.”

Brandon is currently Senior Vice President, Global Privacy for Paramount where he leads the company’s global privacy program’s day-to-day operations, partnering with business, sales, and technology teams around the world.

Vishal Shah is VP and Head of the new Metaverse product group within Facebook Reality Labs, where he oversees product, engineering, and operations. Prior to this, Vishal was with Instagram for 6 years where he was most recently Head of Product overseeing all consumer and monetization products.

Before Facebook, Vishal spent 10 years at Turn, pioneering programmatic advertising and marketing technology in roles across engineering and product. Vishal holds degrees in Computer Science and Business from the University of California, Berkeley and resides in the Bay Area with his wife and their two boys. Find him on Instagram and Twitter: @vishalshahis

Tina Sharkey is a consumer brand builder, global operating executive, entrepreneur, and public and private board member. 

She serves on the national board of directors at the Public Broadcasting Network (PBS), Heyday; a platform pioneering a marketplace-native approach to eCommerce, and Havenly; the world’s leading interior design platform. She currently serves on the Growth and Innovation board at GAP Inc. and as a strategic advisor to BFA Industries; the largest beauty community in the world, where she previously served on the Board. Tina also served on the Board of Directors of HomeAway, (NASDAQ: AWAY) through its sale to Expedia.

Recognized as one of the top 100 People Transforming Business by Business Insider, named by Fast Company as one of the Top Women in Tech, Tina is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute and an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Iovine-Young Academy at USC.

Tina’s held leadership roles at Johnson & Johnson’s BabyCenter, AOL, Sesame Street Digital Group, and co-founded iVillage and Brandless.

Julia Shullman is the General Counsel and Chief Privacy Officer at Telly, the world’s first dual-screen smart TV fully paid for by advertising.

Prior to Telly, Julia was General Counsel & Chief Privacy Officer at TripleLift through its $1.4B acquisition by Vista Equity Partners. Prior to Telly, she held various leadership positions at AppNexus (Chief Privacy Counsel + Lead Attorney, Publisher Technology Group), through its $1.6B sale to AT&T. Prior to advertising, Julia spent a decade in mergers & acquisitions at both Latham & Watkins and UBM. She is widely recognized as an industry leader at the intersection of privacy, product, advertising, policy and strategy.

Julia is passionate about helping organizations navigate privacy’s impacts on the digital ecosystem and find opportunities where many only see risks. Industry leaders regularly turn to Julia for her holistic, hands on, technical, pragmatic and strategic perspective. She is also the Founder and Principal of Shullman Advisory Services.

Rachel Simmons is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Odd Girl Out, The Curse of the Good Girl, and Enough As She Is: How to Help Girls Move Beyond Impossible Standards of Success to Live Healthy, Happy and Fulfilling Lives.

As a leadership development expert and coach, Rachel helps people build their resilience, amplify their voices, and own their own courage. Rachel serves on the faculty of the Google School for Leaders, is an associate with Cultivating Leadership, and was until recently the Director of the Phoebe Lewis Leadership Program at Smith College. She is co-founder of the national nonprofit Girls Leadership, and her writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Atlantic, Slate, and The New York Times.

An ABC News Contributor for Good Morning America, Rachel appears often in the national media. She lives in Western Massachusetts with her daughter. For more information, please visit www.rachelsimmons.com.

Belinda Smith joined m/SIX in January 2021 as CEO, Americas. She has also been The&Partnership’s Special Advisor to the board since June 2020. Before joining m/SIX, she was Head of Global Marketing Intelligence at Electronic Arts (EA) where she created their first central team to lead content, channel and audience strategy as well as marketing effectiveness and measurement.

Previously, she was the Director of Programmatic Strategy at 360i where she oversaw strategy, buying, and data capabilities across all programmatic accounts and client teams. A veteran of the New York Ad Tech industry including a stint at the IAB; Belinda started her career in product management and marketing at AT&T.

Belinda is a Marketing and Diversity activist currently serving as the Global Diversity Ambassador for the World Federation of Advertisers. Belinda is a champion of inclusive workplaces which support and cultivate diverse talent and work.

Jen Soch, Executive Director of Channel Solutions at GroupM, oversees Audio & Local Video, DR, Publishing, and AdvancedTV. Her extensive career spans over three decades in media agencies, where she has consistently driven innovation and excellence. 

Previously, as Integrated Global Investment Lead at Mindshare, Jen spearheaded the Facebook Business, managing all investment channels including Video, Audio, Programmatic, Image, Search, Social, and Digital. Her strategic oversight ensured cohesive campaigns and seamless integration across channels and tactics. 

Jen’s impressive track record includes roles as EVP, Commercial at The Guardian, where she led U.S. Commercial Operations, and a strategic position at Domo focusing on analytics and investment. Her agency experience encompasses leadership roles at Ammarti-Puris, Dentsu-Aegis, MEC, and MediaVest, where she guided planning, strategy, and investment for diverse client portfolios. 

Jen spent over a decade defining the first addressable and digital marketplaces and launching inaugural advertising on video on demand, including OTT, CTV, and mobile platforms. 

Jen holds an MBA from Fordham University and a degree from Lehigh University. Beyond her professional achievements, she is a proud mom who enjoys ski jumping, and playing the saxophone. 

David Spector is the Co-Founder & President of ThirdLove. ThirdLove has grown to become the third largest online bra and underwear company in America according to NPD. Dave has always been an entrepreneur, starting his first company in college and another during business school. Prior to founding ThirdLove, he focused on consumer internet investing as a Partner at Sequoia Capital. Before Sequoia, Dave was at IBM and Google, where he helped lead Google’s first efforts in commerce with the launch of Google Checkout, Product Search, and Google Analytics. Outside of ThirdLove, he is on the Board of Directors of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and is an active angel investor and advisor in more than two dozen companies.

Dave has been recognized as National Retail Federation List of People Shaping Retail’s Future, Goldman Sachs’ 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs (4x), and EY Entrepreneur of the Year in Northern California. He is also a certified pilot and rather enthusiastically unaccomplished as a triathlete.

Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer, known for his speculative fiction works, which have been variously categorized science fiction, historical fiction, maximalism, cyberpunk, and postcyberpunk. Stephenson explores areas such as mathematics, cryptography, philosophy, currency, and the history of science. He also writes non-fiction articles about technology in publications such as Wired Magazine, and has worked part-time as an advisor for Blue Origin, a company (funded by Jeff Bezos) developing a manned sub-orbital launch system.

Born in Fort Meade, Maryland (home of the NSA and the National Cryptologic Museum) Stephenson came from a family comprising engineers and hard scientists he dubs “propeller heads”. His father is a professor of electrical engineering whose father was a physics professor; his mother worked in a biochemistry laboratory, while her father was a biochemistry professor. Stephenson’s family moved to Champaign-Urbana, Illinois in 1960 and then to Ames, Iowa in 1966 where he graduated from Ames High School in 1977. Stephenson furthered his studies at Boston University. He first specialized in physics, then switched to geography after he found that it would allow him to spend more time on the university mainframe. He graduated in 1981 with a B.A. in Geography and a minor in physics. Since 1984, Stephenson has lived mostly in the Pacific Northwest and currently resides in Seattle with his family.

Neal Stephenson is the author of the three-volume historical epic “The Baroque Cycle” (Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World) and the novels Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, and Zodiac, Anathem, Reamde. Seven Eves, The Rise & Fall of Dodo, Fall; or, Dodge in Hell, In the Beginning…Was the Command Line and, most recently, Termination Shock.

He lives in Seattle, Washington.

David Temkin is the Director of Product Management, Ads Privacy & User Trust at Google.

He leads the product management team responsible for ads privacy. His team is focused on privacy-first monetization, product changes driven by a changing regulatory environment, and transparency and control for ads, across all of Google’s ads business. Prior to Google, he ran product management and design at Brave Software. He’s been a software developer, a two-time company founder, and an engineering and product leader at small and large tech companies, including Apple and AOL. David graduated in computer science from Brown University and has 11 patents issued.

Sneha leads the Ad Platforms Products team at Yahoo. She is responsible for overall product development and strategy of our unified stack across demand and supply products including the DSP, SSP and YPN as well as our emerging channel offerings across ATV and DOOH. Sneha has more than ten years of product management experience and has an extensive technical background, starting her career as a software engineer. Her ability to thread technology with business strategy along with her proven development track record has quickly propelled her into leadership roles.

As President of the Americas at Google, Allan leads the Company’s advertising business in North and South America. Prior to this role he was President of Google Marketing Solutions, overseeing the global mid-market and small advertiser business, which serves millions of customers and agencies worldwide. Allan is a sought-after voice in the technology industry and presently serves as a Lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, as an outside Director for RingCentral (NYSE: RNG) and on the advisory boards of Stanford’s Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) and Stanford’s Institute for Research in the Social Sciences (IRISS).

Before joining Google in 2010, Allan was a Managing Director and Partner in the U.S. venture and growth funds of The Carlyle Group, where he led investments in startups in sectors including e-commerce, mobile advertising and imaging. Earlier, Allan served as EVP, sales and business development, at Wink Communications, which he helped take public in 1999. Before Wink, he worked in sales, marketing, customer service and finance management roles at various technology companies in the United States and Denmark.

Allan received a master’s degree in economics from the University of Copenhagen and an MBA degree from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he graduated as an Arjay Miller scholar. He lives in the Bay Area with his wife and four children.

Lartease Tiffith is the Executive Vice President for Public Policy at the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). He leads IAB’s public policy team, which is responsible for advocating on behalf of IAB’s more than 700 member companies on complex issues, including consumer privacy, data security, global trade, international data transfer rules, and more. Lartease also leads IAB’s Public Policy Council, the marketing and media industry’s largest legislative and regulatory advisory group, with senior executives from more than 200 companies contributing to solutions to advance consumer benefits and economic growth. He also plays an important role in supporting IAB Tech Labs efforts to align the industry’s technical development and best practices. 

Lartease joined IAB from Amazon, where he led the company’s public policy work around advertising, privacy, security, data governance, cross-border data flows, and consumer protection issues. In his role, he provided counsel to internal legal and business partners on global public policy matters to help guide the development of products, services, and internal policies. During his tenure at Amazon, INSIDER named him as one of the key players in politics and the tech world. 

Prior to joining Amazon, Lartease served as Senior Counsel to then-U.S. Senator Kamala Harris, and Counsel to U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein. Before working in the Senate, he practiced law at two international law firms (Kirkland & Ellis LLP and O’Melveny & Myers LLP) and the U.S. Department of Justice. Lartease began his legal career as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Roger L. Gregory, Circuit Judge, on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. 

Lartease earned his B.A., J.D., and M.B.A. from Northwestern University.

Marc Toulemonde is a beauty and digital thought leader with over twenty-five years of international experience in the beauty industry. As the Chief Digital and Marketing Officer of L’Oreal USA, Marc is charged with leading the Group’s digital acceleration across its portfolio of brands. From driving new marketing models to spearheading new digital capabilities, Marc is a results-driven leader committed to creating the Future of Beauty. Putting the consumer at the heart of L’Oreal’s business, driving digital innovation, and building high-performing teams is what fuels Marc to continue pushing the beauty industry forward and building a best-in-class beauty tech company.

Prior to this role, Marc served as the President of L’Oréal USA’s Active Cosmetics Division (ACD) for six years. In that time, Toulemonde led the Division to 5X growth, increasing the e-commerce share of business from 16% to 36%. Toulemonde built a customer-centric organization with digital and data at the core of marketing, medical engagement and sales. All digital channels – e-boutiques, e-retailers and pure e-commerce players – strongly accelerated in sales growth under his leadership. The Division’s acquisition in 2017 of CeraVe experienced explosive growth under Toulemonde’s direction and became the #1 dermatologist recommended brand in the US. This, plus SkinCeuticals being the #1 dispensed skincare brand, has enabled L’Oréal USA to become a leader in the mass and prestige clinical skincare category.

Marc has had a long, successful career since joining the group in 1995. After his early experience in the Luxe Division, he joined the Consumer Products Division as Product Manager for Maybelline and Garnier in 1997. In 2000, he was transferred to L’Oréal Paris as Group Product Manager and was promoted to Vice President of Marketing in 2002. In 2007, Toulemonde was appointed General Manager of Travel Retail for the Consumer Products Division. In July 2008, he was promoted to General Manager of Maybelline and Garnier Spain. In October 2010, Toulemonde was transferred to L’Oréal USA as General Manager of SkinCeuticals DMI.

As VP Agency, Advertiser, and Industry Partnerships, Priscilla leads the company’s collaborations with advertising agencies and brands, providing strategic counsel to marketers on how to maximize the power of SXM Media and it’s iconic consumer-facing publishing brands. By leveraging feedback from key, strategic partners, she helps SXM Media build innovative programming and customized advertising solutions that drive measurable business results further supporting SXM Media’s billion dollar advertising business.

Priscilla joined Pandora in 2008 and during her tenure has held multiple leadership roles including VP East Coast Sales and most recently, VP Vertical Sales. Prior to joining Pandora, Priscilla was hand-picked by the CEO of Answers.com to be the Director of Sales as a part of their inaugural direct sales team efforts.

In February 2017, she was named Working Mother of the Year in the ‘New to Motherhood’ category by She Runs It and in May 2017, was voted onto the She Runs It Board where she currently serves as a member of the Executive Committee in the role of Treasurer and is the board liaison to the Multicultural Committee. She is also an active member of the IAB and sits on the IAB Audio Board. Priscilla lives in Hoboken with her husband Jason and her two girls, Josephine (9) and Emmie (5).

As BCW’s Chief Inclusion Officer, Carol has a deep understanding of the business approach to embedding inclusion and the metrics-driven practices of building and nurturing a truly inclusive organization. She believes in the relentless progress of inclusive organizational transformation in her work internally and as an external marketer, thought leader and inclusion & diversity (I&D) practitioner.

Prior to joining BCW, Carol was Senior Director, Global Advisory and Consulting for Diversity Best Practices/Working Mother Media, responsible for advising and consulting 200+ mid- to large-sized organizational leaders at all levels on how to best leverage proven, innovative diversity initiatives and sustainable culture change strategies. Projects included I&D in communications, the impact of employee resource groups, strategic diversity recruiting and leadership accountability. Additionally, Carol has consulted on structure, benchmarking and auditing practices and leadership accountability.

Carol co-founded the marketing and media industry initiative Inclusive100 with She Runs It, which brings together the advertising, media and marketing ecosystem to benchmark workforce, workplace and inclusive culture progress and share best practices with 30+ marketing organizations participating quarterly.

She has a Masters of Organizational Development from Pepperdine University, as well as certifications in Intercultural Development Inventory, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and Coaching.

As a lifelong learner, Carol can also be found performing in a cover band on bass, vocals and bongos.

Brad currently serves as Director – Privacy and Public Policy at Meta. Prior to joining Meta, Brad served as Vice President of Public Policy for the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). Earlier in his career, Brad served as senior advisor to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and as a fellow on the Senate HELP Committee.

Chris Wilson has built a reputation in the research industry as a visionary by working daily to create the television measurement products of the future.

As Chief Commercial Officer at Comscore, Chris oversees the Commercial, Sales Operations and Marketing teams, along with the international business lines. In his role, Chris says his mission is to further the development of new products and services to measure TV across every platform and better integrate the company’s digital, TV, and cross-platform sales efforts through consistent best practices across Comscore’s commercial teams.

Throughout his career, Chris has played a critical role in the growth and evolution of TV measurement. Prior to his role at Comscore, Chris served as Executive Vice President, National Television Products at both Comscore and Rentrak; Senior Vice President, Sales at Scarborough Research Company; President at Experian Research Services; President & COO of Simmons Market Research Bureau; and CEO & President of LogicLab, a division of Merkle LLC.

When he’s not working to build and maintain key strategic relationships with national advertisers, agencies, and TV networks, Chris enjoys playing golf and scuba diving. He lives in New Jersey with his wife, three kids, a dog, and a horse.

As SVP, National Audio Practice Lead, Chris Yarusso oversees the national audio practice and investment across Publicis Groupe in the US. Focusing on a holistic buying approach that incorporates all facets of the audio ecosystem, Chris brings the best of Publicis’ offerings to bear for some 50+ clients across the network. Chris has been with the Publicis family for over a decade, having joined Spark Foundry in 2011 and rising through the ranks in various positions across strategy and investment prior to earning his current title at the helm of the organization’s audio practice. Chris additionally sits on the Media Rating Council’s Radio Committee.

Outside of work, Chris can most likely be found skiing in Breckenridge, Colorado, or in the kitchen testing out new recipes. He lives in Chicago and is the father of three teenagers.

Mike Zaneis has served as President and CEO of the Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG) since 2015, spearheading the digital advertising industry’s efforts to fight criminal activity, increase brand safety, and facilitate threat sharing capabilities. Under his leadership the organization has grown to include 700+ global member companies, operating in 44 countries across 6 continents. TAG’s programs are proven to stop at least 90% of advertisng fraud and have removed 90% of ads from leading pirate sites in North America. TAG is currently designated as the industry’s only Information Sharing and Analysis Organization (ISAO).

In 2018, Mike Co-Founded the Brand Safety Institute (BSI), a non-profit organization focused on the professionalization and advancement of brand safety practices. BSI provides training and certification for executives in the digital advertising industry and provides resources to help marketers and their partners protect these global brands.

Prior to taking the helm at TAG, Mike served as the Executive Vice President and General Counsel for the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). He created the organization’s first Public Policy Office, headquartered in Washington, D.C. During his tenure, the IAB tripled its revenue and membership, and under his guidance, the Public Policy Office grew to become the leading voice for the digital advertising industry on legislative, regulatory, and legal issues. He often represented the industry before the United States Congress, federal regulatory agencies, international legislative bodies, and at public conferences. As General Counsel for the IAB, Mike oversaw internal legal operations of the organization and provided leadership on key judicial proceedings impacting the interactive advertising industry.

Prior to joining IAB, Mike served as Executive Director of Technology and E-Commerce at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the world’s largest trade association. As the chief technology and telecommunications lobbyist, he oversaw issues affecting the business community pertaining to online and consumer privacy, data security, telecommunications, intellectual property, counterfeiting, piracy, and e-commerce. He received his bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University and both his Juris Doctor and Masters in Public Policy from Georgetown University. Mike has served as an adjunct professor for Georgetown’s McCourt School of Public Policy.