Jordan Abbott is Chief Privacy Officer of Acxiom. Prior to serving in his current role, Abbott was an information privacy attorney for the company.

Abbott advises key stakeholders on legal, data governance and compliance policy as well as handling government relations, where he provides strategic insight on proposed legislation at the state and federal levels.

In his time at Acxiom, Abbott has made significant contributions to Acxiom’s approach to data governance and industry leadership in ethical data use. He has been instrumental in guiding the organization through the continued implementation and evaluation of GDPR regulations and is responsible for coordinating the Privacy Shield compliance for international data transfers. Additionally, he has been a highly regarded expert and advocate for federal consumer privacy legislation and is leading all strategic preparations for the California Consumer Privacy Act before it goes into effect in January 2020.

Prior to joining Acxiom, Abbott was in private practice from 1998 to 2001. Previously, he served as an Assistant Attorney General of Arkansas in the Consumer Protection Division from 1991 to 1998. As a result of his service in the office, the Abbott Award for Outstanding Service was named in his honor.

Abbott is well-credentialed in the data privacy field, holding certifications from the International Association of Privacy Professionals, being a certified privacy professional for the U.S. and Europe, and being certified in privacy program management. He previously served as President of the Coalition for Sensible Record Access and currently sits on the DMA Data Ethics Operating Committee. Abbott is also a frequent speaker at industry events including DMA, IAPP and DAA.

Abbott graduated Rhodes college in Memphis where he earned his degree in history. He also graduated from the University of Arkansas School of Law.

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 3,000 independent publishers whose distinctive voices are shaping the open web. The company’s collective of creators reaches more than 160 million monthly unique visitors, ranking as the 11th largest digital entity and as #1 in Food, Family, and Home.Paul focuses on new product innovation, strategic partnerships, and corporate development at CafeMedia. During his time at CafeMedia, he led the company’s transition to a programmatic-first approach, spearheaded the early adoption of header bidding, and directed the transition to a publisher services model. Paul has worked in digital media and advertising since the mid-90s, starting a major video game publisher out of his parent’s basement. He worked for early internet pioneers including USWeb/CKS and CMP Media.

As the Senior Vice President of Addressability and Ecosystem at LiveRamp, Travis is responsible for leading 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 products and initiatives. The Authenticated Traffic Solution is one such product, enabling publishers to link their first-party identity to LiveRamp’s people-based, pseudonymous identifier, and then connect to LiveRamp’s Authenticated Identity Infrastructure across partner platforms to enable marketers to buy and measure using the identifier.

Travis is a co-founder and Board Member of the Advertising ID Consortium, advocating for people-based identifiers to be transacted across the open Internet. Travis also serves as a Board Member of the IAB Tech Lab. Prior to joining LiveRamp, Travis was a director at Epic Systems responsible for implementing systems that managed sensitive healthcare information. Travis holds a BA in Political Science from Rollins College.

Alex leads IAB Tech Lab’s privacy initiatives. Before Tech Lab, Alex was Director, Product Management at Xandr, directly responsible for its privacy and creative product and engineering plans, execution and go to market. During his 7 years at AppNexus (now Xandr), Alex gained a deep understanding of the ad tech industry working globally on projects ranging from a video DSP to ad quality policy and enforcement. Alex holds a masters degree in International Relations focused on European Union Policy Studies, and before AppNexus worked in government and not for profit roles. Alex’s unique experience as a tech leader with international policy chops are a strategic advantage as Tech Lab enables its members to navigate the major disruption impacting digital advertising today.

Ben is Sr. Director, Product – Privacy, Identity & Data at IAB Tech Lab. He leads product within Tech Lab’s identity and transparency groups, and works closely with ad tech platforms, agencies and publishers to address challenges faced within automated, data-driven media buying / selling.

Prior to joining IAB Tech Lab, Ben led digital trading at GroupM for Nestlé’s 85 brand portfolio across North America. In this capacity he was responsible for overall product performance of the Nestlé Trade Desk (NTD) – a bespoke data and trading solution specifically to service Nestle brands – as well as brand-specific programmatic strategy and associated functions, including measurement & optimization, ad operations, and private marketplace development. Prior to his work on Nestlé, Ben held positions at both Maxus Global and Universal McCann, where he led programmatic and attribution strategies for large global brands like MasterCard, NBC Universal, Barclays, and Harvard Business School.

Ben received a B.S. in Communications Theory and Entrepreneurship from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

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.

Scott joined ID5 in April 2018 and is the Co-founder and SVP, Customer Operations and Product. He works closely with customers to understand their challenges with identity, then designs product and services solutions that will benefit platforms, publishers, and consumers.

Prior to ID5, Scott spent almost 8 years at AppNexus where he led Services and Product Teams. While at AppNexus, he led the team that built Prebid.js, managed the technical and product deliverables for AppNexus’ most strategic client, and ran several product capabilities

Eliza Nevers drives Lotame’s global strategy and product roadmap to serve the evolving data enrichment needs of marketers, agencies, and publishers. Fluent in the full product life cycle, from strategy to development and build, she brings nearly two decades of hands-on experience in tech to her role as SVP, Product at Lotame. Prior to her tenure, Eliza served as VP Product for Verizon Media. During her 12+ years there, she steered the development and launch of AOL’s first DSP, SSP and DMP, driving the evaluation and product integration of multiple strategic acquisitions as well as developing and launching AOL’s unified Advertising platform, ONE by AOL for Advertisers. Most recently, Eliza launched her own consulting business where she defined product strategy and product development agile processes for various companies in and out of adtech. Eliza holds a B.S. in Engineering and an M.S. in Engineering Management both from Duke University.

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.