Nico Amantia joined Scout in 2016 and is currently a Senior Account Executive and Esports/Gaming Lead. Previously, Nico worked at MKTG, formerly Team Epic. In his account role at Scout, he works across Popeyes, Burger King, Mohegan Sun, TriHonda, Constellation Energy, and also works with brands such as Popeyes and Burger King on all esports/gaming initiatives as well as any other Horizon/Scout clients that have interest in exploring or have active investments the space. He has managed esports team partnerships for both Popeyes and Burger King, and has also facilitated streamer partnerships for his clients. Nico is originally from Huntington, NY and graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in Sports Management.

Krishna Andavolu is a correspondent and host on VICE News Tonight, the Emmy award-winning nightly newscast from VICE News. A veteran reporter, producer, editor, and correspondent, Krishna has spearheaded some of VICE News’ most essential and ambitious reporting, including coverage about child separation at the southern border, documented the Rise of Hindu nationalism, and hosted and produced the VICE Special Report, The Future of Work.

In addition to his work for VICE News, Krishna has served as a host, producer, and magazine editor for VICE Media. He started at VICE in 2011 hosting the digital mini-series, All The Wrong Places, and moved to become an editor of VICE Magazine and VICE.com, covering travel, marijuana policy and legalization, labor, and other issues in both print and video.

Jesse Angelo is President, Global News and Entertainment, VICE Media Group and oversees three of the company’s five lines of business. As VICE’s most senior strategic and operational content leader, Angelo spearheads the international expansion, growth and content development of the award-winning VICE News division, VICE’s digital channels, and the company’s television business. He joined VICE Media Group in June 2019.

Before VICE, Angelo was most recently Chief of Digital Advertising Solutions for News Corp, as well as Publisher and CEO of The New York Post.

A native New Yorker, he graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College with a degree in American History and Literature. He sits on the board of the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism CUNY Foundation, and co-edited Deadline Artists, two anthologies of America’s greatest newspaper columns.

As NPR’s senior vice president for news and editorial director, Nancy Barnes oversees NPR’s journalism and journalists around the world and across platforms. She leads an award-winning team of journalists and newsroom executives who are committed to excellence, innovation and the highest quality reporting and storytelling.

Barnes has spent nearly 30 years leading high-performing teams in delivering award-winning journalism to the public. She joined NPR in November 2018, after serving as executive editor for Hearst Texas Newspapers and the Houston Chronicle. She developed the Houston Chronicle into a metro paper known for national caliber journalism with deep local roots. Previously, she served as executive editor at the Minneapolis Star Tribune Media Company from 2007 to 2013, leading the newsroom to a Pulitzer Prize in local reporting, as well as other national awards.

She began her career as a general assignment and statehouse reporter and has worked at an array of other newspapers from Massachusetts to North Carolina. Barnes has a master’s degree in business administration from the Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia. She is the president of the American Society of News Editors and is a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board, Columbia University.

Jill Baskin Chief Marketing Officer, The Hershey Company, oversees Consumer Insights, Campaign Development, Design, Media, Digital and Social Marketing for some of the sweetest brands on earth.

Prior to joining Hershey Jill held the position of VP Global Brand Equity for Modelez International. During her time at Mondelez she developed campaigns for such iconic brands as Oreo, Cadbury Chocolate, Halls, Chips Ahoy, Belvita Breakfast Biscuits and others. Her campaigns garnered many industry awards and grew sales across multiple geographies.

Jill spent much of her career honing her advertising and marketing skills in Chicago at Leo Burnett, where she rose through the ranks from Assistant Account Executive to Senior Vice President. Throughout her time at Leo Burnett, she managed domestic and global accounts for well-known brands like McDonald’s, Heinz, Toys R Us, Pillsbury, Miller Beer, Pepsi and United Airlines. In addition to her agency experience, Jill started her own strategic consultancy business to advise a wide range of clients.

At her core Jill is a strategic planner, known for uncovering consumers’ deepest feelings about a product and translating those insights into successful marketing campaigns. She is a trained facilitator, known for her innovative interviewing techniques. She has been seen employing these skills at home questioning her children as well as in focus group facilities.

When not on an airplane, Jill can be found in her kitchen cooking for her family and friends or at the ballpark cheering on the Chicago White Sox. Go Sox!

With the goal of taking the agency’s creative to the next level, and challenging the way people think about how data and creativity can work together, Jeff joined Tombras late last year as their first Chief Creative Officer.

Previously, he was a Partner at Barton F. Graf. He also led a reinvention at JWT, where, as Chief Creative Officer for North America, he took one of the oldest and largest agencies in the world and helped it to rediscover its pioneering soul, attracting creative talent and winning brands like Puma, Nokia, and Google along the way.

Jeff joined JWT from Crispin Porter + Bogusky where he was a Partner and Co-Chief Creative Officer. In 2003 he joined CP+B as their first Interactive Creative Director and helped grow the agency by creating some of the most provocative and effective ideas in the world. During Jeff’s career at CP+B they were named Interactive Agency of the Year three times at the Cannes International Festival of Creativity, and Agency of the Decade by Advertising Age. Prior to CP+B, Jeff worked at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners.

Jeff’s work has been recognized by every major industry award show, winning multiple Titanium and Grand Prix Lions at Cannes, Best of Shows at the One Show, Grand Clios, and Grand Effie. Jeff has appeared in ‘Creativity 50.’ In 2010, he received the Irving Wunderman Award for Lifetime Achievement, and later that year was honored by the One Club for two of the five best interactive ideas of the decade.

The work Jeff has created for brands such as Burger King, Volkswagen, Domino’s Pizza, Macy’s, Hewlett-Packard, Band-Aid, Best Buy, MINI, and American Express are among the most successful marketing campaigns of all time.

David Brancaccio is the host and senior editor of Marketplace Morning Report. Airing five times each morning, his reporting focuses on the future of the economy, financial and labor markets, technology, the environment and social enterprises.

In the early 1990s, David was Marketplace’s European correspondent based in London, and he hosted Marketplace’s evening program from 1993 to 2003. From 2003 to 2005, he co-anchored the PBS television news magazine “Now” with journalist Bill Moyers before taking over as the program’s solo anchor in 2005. His feature-length documentary film, “Fixing the Future,” appeared in theaters nationwide in 2012. Among his awards for broadcast journalism are the Peabody, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University, the Cronkite and the Emmy.

He has appeared on CBS, CNBC, MSNBC and BBC World Service Television; his written work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Baltimore Sun and Britain’s The Guardian. David is author of the book “Squandering Aimlessly,” an exploration of how Americans apply their personal values to their money. He also hosts the “Esquire Classic” podcast with Esquire Magazine.

David has a bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University and a master’s degree in journalism from Stanford University.

David lives in New Jersey with his wife, Mary Brancaccio, a poet and educator. He grew up in Waterville, Maine, and attended schools in Madagascar, Ghana and Italy. His enjoys public speaking, bicycling and photography.

Chris Brandt joined Chipotle as Chief Marketing Officer in April 2018. Prior to joining Chipotle, Mr. Brandt was Executive Vice President and Chief Brand Officer of Bloomin’ Brands, Inc. from May 2016 through December 2017. Mr. Brandt was previously Chief Brand Officer/Chief Marketing Officer for Taco Bell, a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc., from May 2013 to May 2016, and was a Senior Director and Vice President of Marketing for Taco Bell from November 2010 to May 2013. Mr. Brandt has an undergraduate degree in Economics from UC San Diego and an MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA.

With more than 25 years of experience in media & entertainment and advertising technology leadership, Paul Brenner served in several c-suite roles including division President with Emmis Operating Company [NASDAQ:EMMS]. As President of NextRadio/TagStation his work focused on global innovation through FM Chip activations in all smartphones for audience measurement, improved in-car user experiences, and data attribution platforms for all broadcast radio. In 2019, Paul joined Vibenomics as Chief Strategy Officer to help develop the go-to-market strategy for the company’s first-to-market Audio In-Store advertising solution. Following a successful launch, Brenner was promoted to President of Audio OOH to oversee all efforts surrounding revenue-generating activity and related partnerships. After the company’s integration with Mood Media, Paul was promoted to SVP of Retail Media and Partnerships. Now, he works to evangelize and innovate the In-Store segment of Retail Media in his role at In-Store Marketplace (ISM).

Jason Brown’s father made a living producing movies, the ultimate collaborative job. Observing his dad at work taught Jason a valuable lesson: A good leader can be charismatic, and it helps if he or she are smart, but there’s never any real substitute to rolling up your sleeves and doing what needs to be done.

Taking that proactive approach to his own career, Jason started out launching innovative cable networks, including MSNBC, Discovery Health Channel, and BBC America. Later in his career, Jason joined Screenvision and helped reimagine movie theater advertising, growing the company more than fourfold in four years and making cinema advertising the fastest growing ad category during his tenure.

Jason then moved on to IdeaCast, where he served as president of Sales and Marketing, playing an instrumental role in building the largest back-of-the-seat TV ad network in the airline industry. Jason also worked with Nielsen to create the first-ever media currency that accounted for TV audience measurement outside the home.

In his current role as Chief Revenue Officer, Jason oversees all revenue responsibilities for Xandr. Under his leadership, growth for national sales has significantly outpaced the marketplace. One of Jason’s secrets to success? To be a true sales leader, he needed to be analytical, not only relationship-minded. And he learned that a leader is only as strong as the talent they surround themselves with. “I feel like I have the best team I’ve ever had, and I want to be very thoughtful and take our time and find the right people. … I think my role is to be a good motivator and listener, someone who’s calm and strategic.

”Brown holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. He is based in AT&T’s New York City office.

As President of Peacock and Direct-to-Consumer, Kelly Campbell is responsible for growing and elevating NBCUniversal’s streaming business and spearheading go-forward strategy for the platform. In her leadership role, Campbell oversees teams across programming, marketing, product, technology, partnerships, and data sciences that together support NBCU’s direct-to-consumer portfolio. Prior to joining Peacock in October 2021, Campbell was President of Hulu, where she led the SVOD and live-TV streaming businesses, following a role as Hulu’s Chief Marketing Officer, where she guided overall marketing and drove Hulu’s strategic brand vision and voice. Prior to joining Hulu, Campbell spent more than a decade at Google in marketing leadership roles across the Google Ads and Google Cloud businesses. Campbell is a graduate of Harvard Business School and Vanderbilt University. A respected leader and innovator, Campbell has been recognized as one of Business Insider’s Most Innovative CMOs, the Adweek 50, AdAge’s Women to Watch, FierceCable’s The Fierce 50: Executives Reshaping the Business of Pay TV, and Forbes’ Most Influential Global CMOs.

Accomplished Executive, Reginald Cash is CEO of 3BLACKDOT. In this role, Cash oversees the company’s multi-platform entertainment studio across digital content, television, film, literary publishing, video games, branded services and ecommerce. As astudio, 3Blackdot is able to fully finance feature films, brands, and video games through its backing from its global media parent company Webedia.

Cash assumed the role of CEO in March 2020. He previously served as President and COO overseeing finance, operations and client strategy where Cash has been instrumental in driving the company to deliver innovative projects that meet changing consumer entertainment needs, motivations and relationships with experiential brands and optimizing 3BLACKDOT’s unique portfolio of capabilities.

Under Cash’s leadership 3BLACKDOT has broadened its service offerings to include IP generation and owned content production. He’s led the acquisition of Full Fathom Five and its content division and catalogue of book and film IP.

As a follow up to the theatrical release Queen & Slim, Cash is currently overseeing 3BLACKDOT’s MisBits, a new sandbox, action-adventure PC game, and a slate of collaborations with creators such as director Eli Roth, content creators Evan ‘Vanoss’ Wong, and Rachel Levin.

Prior to joining 3BLACKDOT, Cash founded Markers – a data aggregation company streamlining publicly traded company data and information. Before that, he led the Investor Relations groups for Deutsche Bank and UBS.

A graduate of Columbia University, Cash resides in Los Angeles.

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.

Mae is an Associate Publisher at Barron’s Group, which consists of Barron’s, MarketWatch, Mansion Global, Penta and the Financial News. At Barron’s Group, she serves as the publisher and editor at Mansion Global, the premiere news site for luxury residential properties around the world, and Penta, a wealth management and luxury publication. In addition, she works on live journalism and membership initiatives across the group, and has a focus on emerging business. Mae is an award-winning reporter and editor who has been at the forefront of digital-strategy efforts in newsrooms and has led a number of start-up initiatives. Mae has worked on the launch of a suite of professional-services content verticals at Dow Jones, she was critical in the development of the editorially driven events portion of The Wall Street Journal’s subscriber-benefits program and she played an integral role in the rebranding of the Journal’s national politics coverage. Prior to her time at Dow Jones, Mae oversaw the startup of a 24/7 news website for Cablevision. She was the Executive Editor at amNewYork, a free, New York City daily, where her digital initiatives included experimenting with the integration of augmented reality and other new technology into the paper.

Kevin Chestnut is a Producer and Social Media Strategist for Brother and Team Whistle, and has been with Brother since its Snapchat debut in Fall 2016. In that time, he has created, written, produced, or edited on hundreds of original videos on all social media platforms. He currently still writes and appears in daily Brother Snapchat editions, as well as hosting Brother’s YouTube series, Know Cap, and leading their social media voice.

Kudzi Chikumbu is the Director of Creator Community at TikTok where he is responsible for connecting and building the creator community through creator marketing, partnerships and creator education all while advocating for diversity, inclusion & representation online. Kudzi’s passion comes from his love of the power user-generated video content to create a deeper form of engagement between audience and creator. He has helped develop content strategies for top and emerging creators including some of the biggest creators on the platform. Kudzi developed and launched creator initiatives to foster diversity such as hosting the #MakeBlackHistory Creator Summit, supporting the Asian American Pacific Islander Family virtual creator summit and uplifting diverse creators into the mainstream through various marketing opportunities.

Deborah Clark is the senior vice president and general manager of Marketplace®. She oversees the entire Marketplace portfolio, including digital, on demand and the Marketplace programs — Marketplace, Marketplace Morning Report and Marketplace Tech. In her role, Deborah oversees efforts to fulfill the brand’s mission to raise the economic intelligence of all Americans, including the strategic and business development of the organization. Outside of Marketplace, Deborah has experience as an independent producer of radio documentaries and projects across the public radio system. She also worked as the senior producer of the statewide television show, California Connected, and for NPR as executive producer of Day to Day. Deborah has been awarded an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Silver Baton (1998), and a George Foster Peabody award (2000). She attended the University of California, Berkeley, where she received a bachelor’s degree in political science and a master’s degree in journalism. A native of Great Baddow, England, Deborah currently resides in Los Angeles with her husband and two young kids.

Zennen Clifton is the EVP, Head of 3BD Networks at 3BLACKDOT (3BD), where he leads all direct-to-consumer content initiatives as well as 3BD’s full-service branded content studio. 3BLACKDOT is an entertainment studio producing and financing innovative and original cross-platform entertainment experiences. In addition to co-financing and co-producing QUEEN & SLIM and the upcoming 360 Horror Experience CLOWNPOCALYPSE, 3BD has partnered with artists and creators to sell more than 20 million books worldwide, amass 23 billion digital views, accumulate 100M+ subscribers across its network of 85 creators and has shipped hundreds of thousands of physical merchandise units.

Zennen began his career at Endeavor/WME before entering the world of direct-to-consumer content as a producer and development executive at Yahoo! Studios. As an early entrant into the hybrid digital/television space, some of Yahoo!’s tentpole original productions included half hour comedies Community: Season 6 (Sony), Other Space (Paul Feig), and Sin City Saints (Mike Tollin), as well as digital series featuring talent from Michelle Rodriguez to Tom Hanks. Yahoo operated as both studio and network, requiring Zennen to work closely with PR, marketing, engineering, and sales teams building a premium, half hour television business. In addition to the original content, Zennen has produced content with premium brands including Samsung, Honda, and P&G. He then co-founded the multicultural content studio No Label with NBA All-Star Baron Davis to develop and finance both long and short-form content for multicultural audiences. Since forming in 2016, they have been active in the film and television space with developing projects for Sony, Lionsgate, Amazon, MACRO, and Warner Horizon while collaborating with other high end partners such as Amy Pascal and Issa Rae. As a full-service production company, No Label has established itself in the low budget/high concept comedy world by producing the scripted series WTFBD with AT&T’s Fullscreen and distributed on FuseTV and Hulu as well as producing content for Kevin Hart’s Laugh Out Loud Network. He then transitioned to become the VP of TV & Digital at MACRO to build strategic studio and distribution partnerships before his current position at 3BLACKDOT. He graduated from Princeton University with an engineering degree in Computer Science.

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

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

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

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

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

Charlie Collier was named Chief Executive Officer, FOX Entertainment,in October 2018. He is responsible for driving the new company’s overall creative vision, supervising all content development, creating new strategies for growth and overseeing all of its business operations. As an integral member of its senior leadership team, Collier will help steer FOX Corporation’s growth and continued evolution.

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

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

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

Collier earned his Master in Business Administration degree from Columbia University and his Bachelor of Arts degree from BucknellUniversity.Among other accolades, he recently was inducted into theBroadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame in 2018, honored with the 2009 VanguardAward for Young Leadership, named to Crain’s 40 Under 40 class of 2009 and selected as one of the 2010 top 10 television executives of the year by TheWrap.

Collier also is involved in civic activities, among them serving on the board of CancerCare, an organization devoted to helping not just cancer patients, but also those around them touched by the disease.He is married and has four children.

Marsha Cooke currently serves as vice president & executive producer for ESPN Films and 30 for 30. She is responsible for overseeing development, production, distribution, branding and strategy of all projects under the ESPN Films umbrella, including the 30 for 30 series.

Cooke joined ESPN from VICE Media Group, where she served as senior vice president of global news and special projects. In her role at VICE, Cooke developed and produced special news and entertainment projects across VMG digital and broadcast platforms, leading the youth media company in pushing the limits of broadcast news formats and playing a key role in integrating VICE’s forward-thinking values with its award-winning content.

Cooke was instrumental in leading VICE News’ first-ever live coverage of the 2020 Iowa Brown and Black Forum, the nation’s oldest and only non-partisan presidential forum dedicated exclusively to addressing issues facing communities of color. With unprecedented candidate attendance and a groundbreaking, engaging format, the program won a national news Emmy. Cooke also previously led IMPACT at VICE, where she directed social good and community engagement in order to build and strengthen VICE’s culture, partnerships, and social responsibility initiatives, with a focus on ensuring the company’s work would affect long standing change in local and global communities.

Prior to VICE, Cooke spent 24 years at CBS. She was the first Black Asia Bureau Chief, responsible for coverage across the continent, producing stories for various CBS News shows and she served as VP of news services, in charge of the Newspath newsgathering group serving 200 CBS affiliates nationwide and broadcasters around the world. Before that, Cooke was executive editor of content at CBSN, the 24-hour digital streaming news network, where she led the unit’s push into original documentaries and helped guide breaking news coverage, and also was a senior broadcast producer for “CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley.”

During her time at CBS, Cooke was the recipient of a News & Documentary Emmy Award and a Gracie Award. She is a graduate of Temple University, where she is also a recipient of the Lew Klein Media Award, an inductee of the Alumni Hall of Fame and the university’s Gallery of Success. She was featured in O Magazine in 2019. She is on the board of Solutions Journalism, Capital B, The City, an online, nonprofit newsroom, the Alliance of Women in Media and is a founding member of The Meteor.

Cooke lives in New York City where she is a voracious reader, ridiculous foodie, long-suffering NY sports fan and a proud first generation Jamaican-American.

Subrata De oversees VICE News’ Emmy-award winning long-form documentary unit and is senior executive producer on VICE on Showtime. Before joining VICE, she was vice president, multi-platform newsgathering at ABC News. In that role, she oversaw domestic, foreign, digital and social media newsgathering — coordinating coverage across all platforms for major stories such as the civil unrest following the Ferguson grand jury decision, the Paris terror attacks and the reporting in and about North Korea.

Subrata reinvigorated international storytelling through her support and oversight of ABC News Features, a new vertical launched during her time at the network. She also helped launch ABC News VR, with “Inside North Korea” and “Inside Syria” and was part of the team behind “Madaya Mom,” a true life digital comic book created with Marvel.

Prior to ABC, Subrata worked at MSNBC as the Executive Producer of “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” and at NBC News as a Senior Producer, reporting stories and producing Nightly News broadcasts from over 20 countries, including Indonesia, Egypt, Israel, China, Iraq, Iran, Haiti and Afghanistan. She was lead producer on 17 presidential interviews, including eight with President Obama. She also reported across the U.S., including five years of in-depth reporting in post-Katrina New Orleans.

In May 2012, Subrata oversaw the groundbreaking special, “Inside the Situation Room,” during which the team gained unprecedented access inside the White House in order to tell the story of the night the operation to target Osama Bin Laden unfolded.

She got her start in journalism as a radio reporter for the CBC in northern Canada. Subrata is the recipient of many industry awards, including the 2012 SAJA Leadership Award, two DuPont’s, the Peabody, five Emmys, the RFK Journalism Award and a Gracie for Individual Achievement.

As SVP, Programming, Mr. De Croce is responsible for the editorial content strategy for Crackle Plus as well as all program planning, originals, acquisitions, and merchandising efforts for the company’s AVOD platforms. Previously, he held senior Programming positions at BBC America and Comedy Central where he helped source, develop, and launch such global Brands as Orphan Black, Killing Eve, Doctor Who, Planet Earth, Top Gear, and South Park. Prior to joining Crackle, Richard worked in Business Development at Screen Media Ventures, Crackle’s corporate sibling.

Julie DeTraglia is the Vice President and Head of Research & Insights at Hulu, where she oversees the company’s research teams in ad sales, consumer marketing, and user experience. DeTraglia leads the development, design and implementation of all research initiatives at Hulu, advising business leads on sales strategy, consumer insights, customer acquisition, and product design and experience.

Prior to joining Hulu, DeTraglia spent nearly 15 years at NBCUniversal, where she was most recently the SVP of Digital Research, responsible for sales research, strategy and analytics across NBC’s digital properties, including sites and apps for NBC Entertainment, News, Sports, Olympics and cable entertainment properties. She also spent several years in TV research and integrated marketing.

Julie serves on multiple industry advisory boards, including the Samba TV Data Science Advisory Board and the Cuebiq Product Advisory Council. In 2017, DeTraglia was recognized
as one of the top forty digital executives to watch by Campaign Magazine. In 2018, she was also recognized by She Runs It as a Working Mother of the Year and included in Digiday’s Changemaker issue. For 2019, DeTraglia has been featured in AdExchanger’s Pii Series. DeTraglia is a graduate of Dartmouth College and is based in New York with her husband and three sons.

Scott Donaton is the Head of Creative at Hulu where he leads the teams responsible for bringing compelling creative behind Hulu’s brand, product offering and award winning content to life. In his role, Donaton oversees Greenhouse, Hulu’s creative studio, which includes a full-service multi-disciplinary creative team responsible for creative deliverables across every touch point in the consumer experience , and the industry’s first-ever branded entertainment function that designs and delivers creative opportunities for advertiser partners in streaming TV.

Prior to Hulu, Donaton served as the Global Chief Creative & Content Officer at Digitas, leading the agency’s worldwide creative practice including the agency’s brand campaign, content, experience design and production capabilities. Donaton also served as Head of Content for The Americas for Publicis Media and was the chief architect of the Digitas’ NewFront.

Before joining Digitas, Donaton was Global Chief Content Officer at Interpublic Group’s UM and head of UM Studios, where he led a team of award-winning content strategists and producers who developed creative programs and innovative experiences for clients including Chrysler, Coca-Cola, J&J, BMW and Sony. Prior to UM, Donaton founded Ensemble, an Interpublic Group content studio, where he served as CEO from 2009 till 2013.

Donaton coined the phrase “Madison & Vine”, and is the author of a book by the same name. The book helped launch the branded-content revolution by declaring that the entertainment and advertising industries need to converge to survive. Prior to joining Interpublic, Donaton served as publisher of Entertainment Weekly. Before that, he was at Advertising Age, where he served as its editor for more than a decade before becoming publisher. Donaton oversaw the publication’s extension into digital media and the growth of its global presence.

Donaton has numerous advertising awards, including the Cannes Lions, Clios and London International Advertising Awards. He was inducted into the AAF’s prestigious Advertising Hall of Achievement, and was once honored as one of the “21 Most Intriguing People in Media.” Donaton served as president of the Entertainment jury at Cannes in 2013 and 2019, and is the current president of the AICP Branded Content & Entertainment jury this year. He is also known for his industry thought-leadership, which has been published in numerous media outlets including Fast Company, Adweek, Huffington Post, Business Insider, Ad Age and MediaPost.

Nancy Dubuc is Chief Executive Officer of VICE Media Group, today’s largest independent youth media company. Since joining in 2018 she has directed the expansion and transformation of the company’s global businesses that include two content production studios, a news division, a digital publishing engine, a creative advertising agency, an international television network and several fashion and culture publications. Most recently, Dubuc drove the company’s strategic acquisition of Refinery29, the leading female-focused lifestyle and entertainment destination.

Prior to joining VICE, Dubuc served as President and Chief Executive Officer of A+E Networks, the third in the company’s history after rising in the ranks as a programming executive. She created genre-defining content like Vikings , Hatfields & McCoys , American Pickers and Pawn Stars . She also launched A&E Indie Films and A+E Studios, cementing the company’s position as a leader in award-winning documentary film and scripted television. While CEO, A+E Networks became a global powerhouse with an expanded roster of channels and strategic business investments, generating milestone growth in reach and revenue.

A graduate of Boston University, Dubuc received the Distinguished Alumni Award from its College of Communications in 2013. She is also a recipient of the NCTA Vanguard Award for Distinguished Leadership.

Justin Evans is Head of Analytics & Insights, North America, for Samsung Ads. At Samsung Justin has built an award-winning team supporting rapid growth on 5 continents. His teams have launching multiple solutions for insights, targeting, and measurement, including “The Streaming Index,” “Rule of 40” and “Behind the Screens,” as well as countless custom deep-dives into proprietary TV data to help Fortune 100 advertisers tackle bespoke challenges. Justin is a frequent conference speaker and regularly contributes insights to industry publications.

Previously, Justin was Vice President of Data Strategy at Comcast Spotlight (now Effectv), where he supported a $2.5B local advertising business with responsibilities spanning analytics, data partnerships, product management and ad sales research. In addition, Justin has held positions at Collective, serving as EVP of Enterprise and Chief Strategy Officer, as well as SVP of Advertising Solutions at The Nielsen Company where he spearheaded the company’s “Reach, Resonance, Reaction” solutions.

Justin received a Master of Business Administration degree NYU Stern and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia University.

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

Scott Galloway is the co-host of Pivot, Professor of marketing at NYU’s top-ranked Stern School of Business and best-selling author of three books The Four, The Algebra of Happiness, and Post Corona, which have all appeared on The New York Times bestsellers list. In addition to teaching, Galloway is the founder of multiple business intelligence firms including Red Envelope and Prophet Brand Strategy — as well as the education platform Section4.

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.

Gabe Gordon is a social content innovator. As a Co-Founder of Reach Agency, he established the company in 2012 as a new type of agency created for digital video storytelling. It’s underlying mission is to engage brands with a social generation.

Armed with 17 years of global experience, Gabe’s comprehensive marketing expertise spans influencer, social media, strategy and entertainment. He’s a seasoned veteran across multiple categories including automotive, retail, CPG, tech, hospitality and entertainment. He’s orchestrated impactful creative solutions for world class brands including Disney, Nestlé, Clorox, PepsiCo, Anheuser-Busch In Bev, the National Football League (NFL), Google, GM, Wal-Mart, Marriott Hotels and more.

Jeremi is an experienced Sr. Executive in the media business, where she has spent her career, first on the client side at Monster.com, and then in various business leadership positions at Yahoo!, Amazon, and Snap Inc., where she was the Chief Business Officer from 2018 – 2022. Gorman joined Netflix as the President of Worldwide Advertising in September of 2022. The team is responsible for the Ad Supported tier, which launched in early November in 12 markets. Her team’s remit at Netflix is inclusive of sales and sales operations, advertising product, measurement strategy, and go-to-market plans for this newly launched tier. She is actively engaged in the Advertising Community, serving on the Board of Directors for the Advertising Council and MMA. To serve communities closer to her heart, Jeremi sits on the Board of Directors for Women-for-Women International, which invests in women survivors of war and conflict, providing them with social and economic skills to transform their own lives. In addition, she is a founding investor in the Los Angeles Women’s Soccer Team, Angel City Football Club. She is an avid traveler and adrenaline junkie, so when she’s not at her laptop, she can be found hangliding, zip-lining, jet-skiing, or just reading on a beach. Gorman holds a Bachelor’s degree from UCLA and remains a loyal Bruin. She is a Southern California native, and current resident of Hermosa Beach.

Melissa Grady was appointed Global Chief Marketing Officer, Cadillac in September 2019. As CMO, Melissa oversees strategic marketing for the Cadillac brand around the world. Under her leadership, Cadillac has embraced a data driven approach and launched its Make Your Way campaign, which celebrates unwavering determination and aspiration.

She has in-depth expertise in performance marketing and technology, including new and emerging approaches, and has delivered key note speeches at several conferences including AdWeek, AdExchanger, IAB, Incite, and LIMRA events.

Melissa earned a Master of Science in Integrated Marketing with a specialization in Database, Direct, and e-commerce from Northwestern University and holds a Bachelor of Arts from DePaul in Business Administration, with minors in English and Communications.

As Chief Revenue Officer, Mr. Guelton oversees all of Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment’s ad-supported properties through Crackle Connex, the company’s advertising platform that simplifies the buying process with consistent measurement and performance tracking. Crackle Connex offers brands a unique and powerful way to engage with over 80 million monthly active users (MAU) across a robust portfolio of rapidly growing owned and operated AVOD and FAST networks and platforms Crackle, Redbox and Chicken Soup for the Soul, nearly ten thousand digital out-of-home screens located at top retailers around the nation, and over twenty third-party independent CTV streaming partners. Mr. Guelton was formerly the chief executive officer at SheKnows Media (now She Media), President of Thrillist Media Group, Chief Operating Officer at Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., and Chief Executive Officer of Japanese media company Fujingaho (now part of Hearst).

Vanessa joined Snap Inc., the parent company of Snapchat, in August 2016 and is the Director of Snap Originals. Under her leadership, the Shows format launched on Snapchat in 2016 and has continued to see great success. With nearly 100 Snap Originals launched, and multiple awards won for the programming, Vanessa continues to oversee Snap’s Originals efforts (inclusive of development, production and operations), in addition to the Talent and Content Design teams. Today, Snap Originals are being watched by more than half of the U.S. Gen Z population. Vanessa was named to Variety’s 2017 Hollywood’s New Leaders in Digital, featuring the most prominent up-and-comers in the entertainment business.

Vanessa joined Snap from iHeartMedia, where she was the Senior Vice President of Content and oversaw all video efforts, including the co-creation of the iHeartRadio Music Awards. Prior to joining iHeartMedia, Vanessa helped lead Microsoft’s branded content at LiquidThread and produced multiple Emmy Award winning daytime talk shows, including eight seasons of The Talk, Tyra, Dr. Oz and The Maury Show.

Vanessa is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of The George Washington University. She resides in Brooklyn, NY with her husband and daughter.

A five-time world champion in competitive Counter-Strike, and longtime female pro-gaming icon, Stephanie “missharvey” Harvey is now Counter-Logic Gaming’s Director of Esports Franchise Development and Outreach. Formerly a game designer for Ubisoft Montreal, Stephanie dedicates much of her time raising awareness for healthy gaming habits, gender equality, and online toxicity.

She is also currently working with the International Olympic Committee esports group, is a spokesperson for DreamHack Montreal and has her own web series on RDS Jeux Vidéo, “Vie de Pro”. Her 17 years in esports and 7 years as a developer awarded her a Forbes 30 under 30, BBC 100 women and the title of Canada’s Smartest Person Season 3 on CBC.

As Chief Brand Officer (CBO) for North America at General Mills, Brad leads iconic brands like Cheerios, Annie’s, Nature Valley, Yoplait, and Lucky Charms by energizing talent to build differentiated brands in a remarkable and human way.

By encouraging space and freedom to experiment and learn, Brad has built a highly collaborative cross-functional team structure which has produced innovative ways of thinking, like reinventing “Box Tops For Education” in digital, a program that has already donated nearly one billion dollars to schools.

Brad is passionate about General Mills’ mission to solve the hunger gap and to grow one million acres of regenerative agriculture. He believes that doing good is good for business, and that the future of food is shaped by solving real, human problems. Driven by his belief, Brad fosters an environment for teams to drive forward culture-shifting ideas, like Old El Paso’s partnership with LeBron James and the LeBron James Family Foundation to support ongoing meal delivery and community programs.

Walt Horstman is the SVP and GM for Monetization at Xperi. Mr. Horstman leads Xperi’s Monetization team that works to increase advertising targeting and effectiveness with advanced data and unique inventory across all devices and platforms, mostly recently as Xperi has entered the CTV and streaming space via TiVo. He oversees the business’ strategic product roadmap and manages overall business group operations.

Steve Inskeep is a host of NPR’s Morning Edition, as well as NPR’s morning news podcast Up First.

Known for interviews with presidents and Congressional leaders, Inskeep has a passion for stories of the less famous: Pennsylvania truck drivers, Kentucky coal miners, U.S.-Mexico border detainees, Yemeni refugees, California firefighters, American soldiers.

Since joining Morning Edition in 2004, Inskeep has hosted the program from New Orleans, Detroit, San Francisco, Cairo and Beijing; investigated Iraqi police in Baghdad; and received a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for “The Price of African Oil,” on conflict in Nigeria.

Inskeep’s first full-time assignment for NPR was the 1996 presidential primary in New Hampshire. He went on to cover the Pentagon, the Senate, and the 2000 presidential campaign of George W. Bush. After the Sept. 11 attacks, he covered the war in Afghanistan, turmoil in Pakistan and the war in Iraq. In 2003, he received a National Headliner Award for investigating a military raid gone wrong in Afghanistan. He has twice been part of NPR News teams awarded the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Silver Baton for coverage of Iraq.

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.

Jesse Judelman is Vevo’s Senior Vice President, National Sales, based in New York with over 16 years of premium video sales experience. In addition to running Vevo’s National Sales Team, Jesse is responsible for building and maintaining relationships with the national agency holding companies and developing go-to-market strategies and strategic sales initiatives. Prior to joining Vevo, Jesse led East Coast Sales at Hulu and worked in TV ad sales at FX and Fox.

Michael E. Kassan is the founder and CEO of MediaLink, a leading strategic advisory firm. Described as the “ultimate power broker,” he is a trusted advisor on speed dial with every major executive in the media, marketing, entertainment and technology C-Suite. MediaLink is a part of UTA, which acquired the firm from Ascential plc in 2021. In 2019, Kassan was inducted into the American Advertising Federation’s Hall of Fame, which is considered the highest honor in advertising.

Geoff Keighley is the creator, host and producer of The Game Awards, one of the world’s largest live digital events, with over 49.3 million streams in 2019. Called the “Oscars for the video game world” by The New York Times, The Game Awards is an all-digital live awards show, held annually, that blends together awards for video games and esports with exclusive breaking news and musical performances. Keighley also produces and hosts in-game events with the popular videogame Fortnite (including the recent debut trailer for Christopher Nolan’s TENET, and a special event with J.J. Abrams for STAR WARS: The Rise of Skywalker). Having covered the video game industry for nearly three decades as a reporter, on-camera television host, and now producer, in May 2020 Keighley was named one of The Hollywood Reporter’s Top 21 Innovators.

Jim Keller is the Vice President of Advertising Sales at Hulu where he oversees all sales and operations teams driving the company’s advertising business. In his role, Keller is responsible for all advertising sales efforts for Hulu, including national and local sales, performance marketing, programmatic and integrated marketing. Within his tenure, Keller has secured some of the largest brand partnership deals in the history of Hulu, in addition to playing a principal role in defining the upfront and scatter strategies for Hulu.


Prior to joining Hulu, Keller held multiple leadership positions at Bravo, Viacom and NBC Sports. Most recently, he was the Vice President of Sales at the NBC-owned Bravo network where he was instrumental in growing revenue across the networks traditional and digital properties.


Keller is an East Coast native and father of two. In his free time, Keller is an avid supporter of New York’s youth soccer leagues where he serves as a coach and advocate. He holds a B.S. in Marketing from Providence College.

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.

Noel King joins Today, Explained as co-host and editorial director from NPR where she reported from across the US while occupying the host chair for Morning Edition and Up First. She was part of a team of NPR journalists who won an Edward R. Murrow Award, and her reporting from Minneapolis after George Floyd’s murder won a Gracie Award for best feature interview. In 2020, the Radio Hall of Fame honored her with its “One to Watch” award.

John Lansing oversees one of the country’s most iconic news organizations, whose rigorous reporting and unsurpassed storytelling connects with millions of Americans every day on the air, online and in person. With a nationwide network of award-winning journalists and 17 international bureaus, NPR and its Member stations are never far from where a story is unfolding.

Lansing is a veteran executive and journalist who has spent decades leading complex media companies in growing their relevance and reach, while strengthening their business operations. He is passionate about NPR’s public service mission and the role of a free and independent media in a strong democracy.

Prior to joining NPR, Lansing served as the CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), the independent federal agency whose programming reaches an average weekly audience of 345 million people in 62 languages.

Lansing served for ten years as a visiting faculty member at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies. He is a member of the Quinnipiac University School of Communications Advisory Board and the National Board of Advisors of George Washington University’s School of Media & Public Affairs.

Phillipa Leighton-Jones is Editor at Large of The Trust at The Wall Street Journal/Barron’s Group, and Editorial Director of Innovation for Dow Jones. As global editorial lead of The Trust, an intelligence-led creative consultancy, she advises the world’s best-known brands on storytelling and positioning, and she is stage and news anchor for paid journalism. In her role in Innovation, she is looking at the next wave of media technology and its impact on storytelling for brands for the next three to five years. She is an award winning journalist and editor with over 25 years in the media industry, and was launch editor of platforms including WSJ MoneyBeat and WSJ City before leaving the newsroom to advise clients.

Deirdre is a trusted sales and marketing executive with 20 years of experience in media sales, sponsorship marketing and sales management in the interactive space. Having worked at both Fortune 500 sales organizations and highly entrepreneurial companies, she understands the leadership skills which are required to build start-ups as well as the balance needed within more established organizations.

She joined Barstool Sports as CRO in 2018 to overhaul the Sales and Marketing Organization and drive revenue growth for the business. With a focus on scaling revenue through advertising, partnerships and licensing, she has expanded the team from New York to Chicago and Los Angeles. Since then, Barstool Sports has established partnerships with several blue chip companies such as Square Inc., E&J Gallo, AB InBev, Phillips Norelco, MGM, FanDuel, Kraft Heinz, NASCAR and also has over 250 direct advertising partners across it’s properties. Under her leadership, the partnerships model has developed beyond advertising to include branded content, sponsorships, experiential and direct to consumer product collaborations.

Through top-notch sales training at CNET & ESPN as well as years of hands on managerial experience at Rivals.com, Y! Sports and MLBAM, she maintains well-honed strategic selling and negotiating skills and direct dialogue with executives and senior officers at Fortune 500 companies, top advertising agencies and leading professional sports teams and sports media outlets. She demonstrates dedication to revenue growth, team development and establishing everlasting partnerships through a consultative approach. The interactive media industry has always been a passion for Deirdre and the cross section of digital sports media has been her area of specialization.

Alison Levin is the President of Advertising & Partnerships at NBCUniversal. Reporting into Mark Marshall, Levin is responsible for shaping and executing the division’s audience focused sales strategy, and has oversight of all advertising sales initiatives for NBCUniversal across national, local, SMB Growth, Peacock, sports and Olympic and Paralympic Sales.

Before joining NBCUniversal, Levin served as Vice President of Global Ad Revenue and Marketing Solutions at Roku where she led the new product and go-to-market strategy for the company’s advertising business, including the TV streaming division. As the first ad sales hire for the company, Levin shaped Roku’s early value proposition with advertisers and built out the ad sales and support teams both in the U.S. and internationally, including marketing, research, analytics, publishing partnerships, strategy and more. Prior to Roku, she was a sales executive with YuMe, managing key accounts for its ad tech business, and has held sales positions with IAC and BusinessWeek.

Levin has received industry-wide recognition and was named to the 2019 Ad Age 40 Under 40 List, the 2019 NYC Television Week’s 40 Under 40 List, the 2020 Cynopsis Top Women in Media List, the 2021 Multichannel News Wonder Women Honoree List, and the 2023 Campaign US Inspiring Women Honoree List. She holds a B.A. from Boston University.

As Chief Content Officer, Lewinson is responsible for content strategy and acquisitions for Tubi, the largest free movie and TV streaming service. Lewinson heads up Tubi’s Los Angeles office where he manages one of the largest libraries in streaming (larger than Netflix). He oversees more than 200 content partners including Lionsgate, Paramount and MGM.

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

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

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

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

Currently VP of Media at Dunkin’ Brands since 2018, Keith has led transformation in the Dunkin’ U.S. business. In his first year with the brand he hired a new media agency Publicis Media, launched first ever morning value platform, Go2s and brought to market Dunkin’ brands $100MM investment in new espresso platform. All this added up to QSR magazine naming Dunkin’ the most transformational brand of the year. Through Keith’s strategic leadership Dunkin’ has a modern media strategy that emphasizes personalization at scale which helped achieve a 2.1% sales growth in 2019, highest in five years.

Keith has over two decades of experience in media and communications planning, working at WPP and Dentsu Aegis agencies before joining Mediahub in 2011. While at Mediahub Keith was the Executive Director of the flagship office in Boston, which grew from 70 employees in 2011 to over 150 employees during his time, servicing over 20 clients across all categories such as: JetBlue, Scotts Miracle-Gro, Ulta Beauty, L.L. Bean, Harley-Davidson & Zappos. Past accounts include: Reebok, Nokia, P&G, Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, AT&T and De Beers,

Keith brings a wealth of knowledge about media and consumers and on how best to drive profitable connections with brands and consumers through media. 
From traditional media to understanding the rapidly evolving new media landscape, he shares his dedication to insight-driven planning and big ideas with agency teams to inspire breakthrough media programs across all consumer touchpoints. In addition to leading Mediahub to Mediapost and Adweek agency of the year honors, Keith has been recognized as an Adweek Media All-Star.

Roger Lynch is the CEO of Condé Nast, a global media company producing the highest quality content with a footprint of more than 1 billion consumers in 31 markets worldwide
through print, digital, video and social platforms. The company’s portfolio includes many of the world’s most respected and influential media properties including Vogue, Vanity Fair, Glamour, Self, GQ, The New Yorker, Condé Nast Traveler/Traveller, Allure, AD, Bon Appétit, and Wired, among others. Condé Nast Entertainment was launched in 2011 to develop film, television and premium digital video programming.

Prior to joining Condé Nast in April of 2019, Lynch served as President and CEO of Pandora, the U.S.’s largest streaming music service. While at Pandora, Lynch quickly
refocused the business on key growth, transformation and investment initiatives to accelerate revenue and generate positive returns. Under his leadership in 2018, Pandora doubled its prior year’s revenue growth rate and grew subscription revenue nearly 50%. As a result, Pandora’s share price grew 68% in 2018, higher than all but two companies in the S&P 500.

Previously, as the founding CEO of Sling TV, Lynch led the creation, launch and scaling of Sling TV, the No. 1 U.S. over-the-top television service that delivers the best of live
sports, news and entertainment to broadband-connected devices. Sling TV earned numerous awards for its launch at the 2015 International CES, including the show’s top honors – “Best of CES 2015, Overall Winner.”

Prior to joining DISH, Lynch served as Chairman and CEO of Video Networks International, Ltd., an IPTV technology company in the United Kingdom. While at Video Networks he won an Emmy for Scamp, an on-demand children’s channel, and a BAFTA (British Academy of Film and The Arts) for V:MX, a collection of on-demand music video channels. He also previously served as President and CEO of Chello Broadband N.V., a broadband Internet service provider with operations in ten European countries. Previously, Lynch was a technology investment banker with Morgan Stanley in New York, Silicon Valley and London. He began his career as a member of the physics technical staff at the Hughes Aircraft Company.

Lynch currently serves on the Board of Directors of Condé Nast, Mattel, Inc. and Quibi, LLC, and is a member of the Board of Overseers of the Tuck School at Dartmouth College and the Board of Councilors of the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California. He received his Master of Business Administration with the highest distinction from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and his Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Southern California.

Sean McCaffrey is President and CEO of GSTV. In this role, Sean’s focus is driving business growth through understanding the evolution of the media landscape, the consumer journey and consumer behavioral insights leveraging data, technology, and scale of GSTV’s video platform.


Sean has energized GSTV’s customer base and partnerships through a series of key executive hires, data and analytics partnerships and driving the evolution of the company’s unique national video network. He and the team continue a relentless focus on delivering value to brand, agency and retailer partners while building a fresh and entertaining consumer experience across the country.

As President of Sales and Distribution at Vevo, Kevin McGurn is responsible for leading the network’s monetization efforts and expansion across streaming and digital platforms. He oversees: global, national, and local ad sales; distribution, client, and agency partnerships; and research, insights and analytics. Since joining Vevo in 2017, McGurn’s vision launched Vevo from a digital-first company to a music television destination, accessible on 35 CTV partners, and the largest FAST (free ad-supported streaming TV) network in the world, with over 150 FAST channels in 13 markets. Prior to Vevo, McGurn has served several prominent positions: Head of Sales at Fullscreen and Otter Media; Chief Revenue Officer of Shazam; Senior Vice President of Sales at Hulu; and positions at NBCUniversal and Doubleclick.

David Messinger is the Chief Marketing Officer of Activision Blizzard. In this role, he leads the global marketing function across the company to amplify the company’s powerful storytelling, competition, and community for hundreds of millions of fans around the world.

Prior to joining Activision Blizzard, David was the Co-Head of CAA Marketing, a division of Creative Artists Agency. Prior to joining CAA, David worked at IAC and The Walt Disney Company. David began his marketing career at Leo Burnett.

David also serves on several industry and philanthropic boards.

Austin Mills is a TV Host and social media influencer who has built his following from viral sports videos. Austin played college basketball at Baylor University where he played in back to back NCAA tournaments. Since graduating, Austin has hosted for the NBA and numerous other companies. He has also appeared in national shows and commercials.

Julian Mintz is responsible for growing partnerships with major Fortune 100 brands spanning Automotive, Entertainment, Technology, CPG, Insurance & Retail verticals. He has deep expertise in driving revenue emerging media platforms, first party data & measurement, mixed media strategies, and custom content curation. Prior to Roku, he was responsible for West Coast video revenue at Conversant Media, part of Epsilon, and held senior sales positions with Defy Media and Digital Broadcasting Group. Julian is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles.

Kenny Mitchell is the Chief Marketing Officer at Snap Inc. Mitchell has a reputation for building iconic brands and driving industry-leading performance through innovative, fully-integrated and award-winning marketing programs.

Prior to joining Snap, Mitchell was the Vice President of Brand Content & Engagement for McDonald’s USA. Mitchell was also an accomplished leader at Gatorade, serving as Head of Consumer Engagement, leading all global integrated marketing efforts.

Additionally, Mitchell delivered industry-leading, award-winning creative, including multiple Cannes Lions, film festival selections including Tribeca, and two Emmy nominations. This success led to Mitchell being recognized by Fast Company as one of the “Most Creative People in Business” in 2017.

Prior to Gatorade, Mitchell oversaw Brand and Consumer Marketing for NASCAR, leading development and execution of the annual marketing plan and media strategies. Before NASCAR, Mitchell served as Vice President and General Manager at the Dew Tour, a division of the NBC Sports Group. Here he was responsible for managing all aspects of the Dew Tour including partnerships, marketing, content, events operations and execution.

Mitchell holds a Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College and a Masters of Business Administration from Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business. He was inducted into Dartmouth’s Sports Hall of Fame as a member of the men’s basketball team. He and his wife, Heather live in Los Angeles and have a daughter, Carter.

Matt Murray is editor in chief of The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires, responsible for all global newsgathering and editorial operations. Matt previously served as executive editor since 2017, and had been deputy editor in chief since 2013. He joined Dow Jones & Company in 1994 as a reporter for the Pittsburgh bureau.

He is the author of The Father and the Son and the co-author, with former New York City fire commissioner Thomas Von Essen, of Strong of Heart. He holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in journalism from Northwestern University and lives in New York with his family.

Erika Nardini, CEO of Barstool Sports, is known for her tenacious passion for growing consumer brands.

In July 2016, Erika joined Barstool Sports as the company’s CEO. Known for its original takes and unfiltered view, Barstool Sports is a driving force in comedy, sports, entertainment and culture. Under Erika’s leadership, Barstool Sports has experienced explosive brand and business growth as one of the fastest growing companies on the internet. It is the 6th largest podcast platform in the world with the number one sports podcast and female podcast, and the 10th largest distributed media company in the US. Barstool Sports drives 1.6 billion social views and 26 million video views monthly and 11.9 million listeners across its platforms, owning the 18-34 year old demographic.

In under 3.5 years, Nardini has grown its employees from 15 to 201 with its revenue is approaching 100 million. She has launched over 35 brands, including breakout franchises in
entertainment, sports, and sports betting. Nardini has been named one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People and one of the Most Powerful Women in Sports by AdWeek and Forbes Magazine. Prior to Barstool Sports, Erika held several notable positions at top internet companies including AOL, Demand Media, Yahoo! And Microsoft.

Peter Naylor is Vice President of Americas at Snap, responsible for driving the growth of the company’s advertising business across the United States, Canada and Mexico.

Previously, Peter served as SVP and Head of Advertising Sales at Hulu, where he worked for over six years. Prior to Hulu, Peter was EVP of Digital Media Sales for NBCUniversal (NBCU) where he ran digital advertising sales for NBCU’s entertainment, news and sports digital properties. Before NBCU, Peter served as the SVP of Sales for the iVillage Properties, which was acquired by NBCU in May 2006. Prior to joining iVillage, he served as Vice President of Sales for Terra Lycos. He started his internet sales career at Wired Digital.

Peter is on the Board of Directors for the IAB, Ad Council, the IRTS Foundation and the TD Foundation, an not-for-profit organization that provides aid to children of wounded warriors.

Monique Nelson is chair and chief executive officer of UWG, the country’s longest-standing multicultural marketing and advertising agency. She took the helm of the agency in May 2012, when founder and advertising pioneer Byron Lewis retired.

Headquartered in Brooklyn, with offices in Detroit, Atlanta and Miami, UWG maintains a list of esteemed clients. Today, this list includes Ford Motor Company, Colgate-Palmolive, The Home Depot, Bacardi U.S. and Coca-Cola. As one of the country’s leading multicultural agencies, UWG services its clients with General Market, Black, Hispanic, Asian and LGBT marketing and advertising, digital and traditional advertising, consumer insight, public relations, consumer healthcare communications and cultural fluency consulting.

Michael Neuman has over 30 years of experience investing well over $1B in dynamic sponsorship and marketing partnerships. He founded Scout Sports and Entertainment, a division of Horizon Media, Inc. in 2010. Neuman oversees all Sports, Experiential and Measurement Analytics services; unifying these disciplines under one entity to provide clients with strategic thought leadership and the most comprehensive suite of measurement and analytical tools in sports. Michael is one of the industry’s most respected sponsorship marketers and Scout is an award-winning, nationally recognized agency representing over 30 corporate and property clients and managing close to 200 deals per year.

Teal Newland is the senior vice president, marketing, social content, and branded entertainment at Condé Nast Entertainment (CNE), an award-winning studio and distribution network with projects and channels across film, television, video, social, and podcasts. She reports to Oren Katzeff, president, CNE.

Newland’s role includes marketing across TV, film, and video, in addition to overseeing the development and production of original video programming for all social platforms. More recently, she took on branded entertainment for Condé Nast, including creative development, packaging, production, and operations.

Newland joined CNE from StumbleUpon’s executive team, where she led marketing, partnerships, and revenue. Prior to StumbleUpon she was a global vice president/group director at DigitasLBi (Publicis Groupe), a full service advertising agency, working across all agency clients, including American Express, Delta Airlines, Kraft, and Samsung, in developing global video and media strategy, audience engagement initiatives, and social activation platforms. Previously Newland worked with entertainment companies, including The Walt Disney Company, and spent over six years with Microsoft in a global revenue and branded content capacity on both their U.S. and European teams.

Newland has a BA in Political Science and Spanish from the University of Washington.

MMr. Olive has been with Crackle Connex (owned by Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment) for the last 10 years, and holds the position of President, National Ad Sales and Strategy. In his role, he leads a national sales team driving revenue for media, sponsorships and branded content across their owned and operated AVOD and FAST networks and platforms Crackle, Redbox and Chicken Soup for the Soul. In addition, Crackle Connex holds sales rights for a growing portfolio of over 20 premium streaming services as well as the Redbox OOH kiosk network. Mr. Olive has spent the better part of his 20+ year career helping media companies like Discovery Networks, Sony Pictures Television and PlayStation build out their digital and OTT video sales organizations, sales strategy, and revenue.

As an avid gamer and former eSports competitor, Dana Pirkle took a hobby she loved and made it into her career. Within the past 7 years, Dana has transitioned from the competitive gaming scene into creator focused content. She has worked with content creators across multiple genres and platforms to gain experience throughout the industry and to develop her role as Vice President of Talent Management at 3BLACKDOT.

Dave Portnoy, also known as El Presidente, is the founder of the preeminent digital media brand, Barstool Sports. With a rich 15 year history, Dave created a brand that is extremely influential with a deeply authentic voice.

With humble beginnings as a gambling newspaper in Boston, Barstool Sports has grown to a massive media juggernaut that creates innovative content with massive distribution on multiple platforms including blog, apps, podcasts, radio, video, social, events, pay per view and TV to a fierce, loyal and incredibly engaged audience.

Dave Portnoy and his creative business mind helped build Barstool Sports ‘brick by brick’ into a disruptive company that is thriving in a time when digital media is experiencing layoffs, repositioning and have become reliant on advertisers.

Portnoy, known to most as the ‘pizza guy’ has turned eating and rating a slice of pizza into a pop culture phenomenon with his slogan ‘one bite everybody knows the rules’. His pizza reviews have gained so much notoriety that Barstool Sports created the One Bite app, the single largest database of pizza in the US. One good review from Dave Portnoy and it changes local pizzerias – spurring a giant increase in sales and customers coming from states away to try pizza deemed worthy by Dave.

Dave Portnoy is synonymous with creating a movement. Fans of Barstool continue to read, watch and listen to Barstool Sports content waiting to see what Dave will come up with next.

Dave consistently ranks as the #1 most influential social media account at major US sporting events like the Kentucky Derby, Super Bowl, PGA Championship, U.S. Open Golf, Stanley Cup Finals, NASCAR’s Daytona 500 and more.

Katie Puris is a Managing Director where she oversees business marketing for TikTok’s Global Business Solutions team. In her role, Katie is focused on building a world class creative marketing team and driving awareness of TikTok’s innovative digital marketing solutions. Prior to TikTok, Katie held leadership roles at Google and Facebook where she drove innovation and partnerships with brands and agencies to adopt new digital technologies and create exceptional marketing content. Katie also has deep marketing experience, leading brands like AT&T, FedEx, Frito-Lay, Visa and New Balance during her 10+ years at BBDO as Senior Vice President.

Paola Ramos joined VICE News as a correspondent at the end of 2019. Ramos previously wrote for VICE.com and hosted the GLAAD-nominated VICE digital video series Latin-X , which covered underreported stories about the Latinx community from the HIV crisis on the Texas-Mexico border, to the meth epidemic in Fresno and the experiences of trans asylum seekers. She is a regular contributor on the Telemundo Network and MSNBC.

Ramos was the former Deputy Director of Hispanic Media for Hillary Clinton, as well as a former political appointee in the Obama White House. She received her B.A. from Barnard College, Columbia University and her Master of Public Policy from Harvard University’s Kennedy School.

Rachel joined Snap Inc., the parent company of Snapchat, in February 2015 and is the Head of Editorial. In this role, Rachel oversees Discover programming across News, Sports and Lifestyle and Entertainment, and is responsible for the in-house production of Community content.

Prior to joining Snap, Rachel was a journalist and editor in the UK for 13 years. Whilst editing Fabulous magazine she was named Editor of the Year and New Editor of the Year by the British Society of Magazine Editors.

Rachel holds an MA in Politics from Glasgow University and a post graduate diploma in Newspaper Journalism from City University in London. Rachel was born in Sunderland, UK and now resides in Los Angeles.

Jenny is an award-winning innovator, curator and connector among the world’s leading CMOs and beyond. She’s built a professional reputation as a trusted, unbiased thought leader, trend-tracker and visionary. Having served as a business journalist for more than 25 years covering the advertising, marketing and brand industry and exclusively executive-level marketing decision-makers, she has a deep understanding of the dynamics of marketing and the marketing industry and its leadership. She’s conceived of and successfully launched multiple initiatives, platforms, series and events for CMOs, other C-suite executives, and the broader advertising and marketing ecosystem.

Currently Chief Experience Officer at Adweek, she’s tasked with bringing a community-first lens to everything Adweek does, creating new initiatives, resources and experiential offerings to better connect with and serve marketing decision-makers and the overall marketing ecosystem, building consistency and value across all touchpoints.

She previously served as Managing Director and Cofounder of CMO House at Black Glass, a marketing consultancy that is part of IPG, advising CMOs and providing them with needed resources and access to excel.

Prior to that, she spent 10 years at Forbes as Communities Director, Assistant Managing Editor and Editor and Chair of the CMO Network, where she managed content and events critical to executive-level marketing decision-makers, particularly the annual Forbes CMO Summit; interviewed hundreds of CEOs and CMOs as part of her ongoing Forbes CMO Video Interview Series; led the World’s Most Influential CMOs list; developed the Forbes CMO University Alumni Series; conceived of and launched Forbes CMO Next, an annual list of 50 game-changing CMOs; and oversaw development of the Forbes 30 Under 30 in Marketing and Advertising list.

As Editorial Communities Director, she conceived of and launched the Forbes CxO practice, spotlighting C-suite executive collaboration, and oversaw all of Forbes’ editorial communities focused on the C-suite and aspiring entrepreneurial networks.

Social Media:

X (formerly Twitter): @jenny_rooney

LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferrooney/

Mark Rotblat is the Chief Revenue Officer of Tubi TV, the largest free movie and TV streaming service in the country. As CRO, Mark is responsible for driving revenue through sales and partnerships globally.

Mark comes to Tubi TV from Adobe Systems where he was Sr. Director of Agency Sales & Activation for the Adobe Advertising Cloud. Leading up to his work at Adobe, Mark was part of TubeMogul’s founding team in 2007, which held its IPO in 2014 and subsequently was acquired by Adobe for $540M in 2016. At TubeMogul, Mark held a variety of roles with the company including Marketing, Business Development, and various Sales leadership positions, where his responsibilities included driving sales strategy, communications and execution with agency partners as the SVP of Agency Sales. Mark previously worked in Marketing and Business Development at Healthline, a top 10 health publisher, and before that was a management consultant to healthcare organizations at Stockamp & Associates.

Mark holds an MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and a BS from Duke University, and is based out of the San Francisco Bay area.

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.

Mr. Rouhana is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, Inc. and has been the Chief Executive Officer of Chicken Soup for the Soul since April 2008. Mr. Rouhana has been a leader in the media, entertainment and communications industries for more than 35 years. He was the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Winstar Communications, a wireless broadband pioneer, and Winstar New Media, one of the earliest online content companies, from 1993 until 2001. Among other qualifications, Mr. Rouhana brings to our Board extensive executive leadership in the communications, media and entertainment industries, including production and distribution, and broad experience in business financings and acquisitions. He received his B.A. from Colby College, where he is currently Trustee Emeritus; and his J.D. from Georgetown Law School.

Kai Ryssdal is the host and senior editor of Marketplace, the most widely heard program on business and the economy — radio or television, commercial or public broadcasting — in the country. In addition, he joins forces with Marketplace Tech’s Molly Wood to connect the dots on the economy, tech and culture as co-host of the podcast Make Me Smart with Kai and Molly. Kai speaks regularly with CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, startup entrepreneurs, small business owners and everyday participants in the American and global economies. He first came to Marketplace in 2001 as the host of Marketplace Morning Report, where he covered the economic aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, the collapse of Enron, and the slow buildup to the housing crash, the financial crisis and the Great Recession. Before his career in broadcasting, Kai served in the United States Navy and the Foreign Service. He’s a graduate of Emory and Georgetown universities. Kai lives in Los Angeles with his wife and four children.

Connect with him on Twitter @kairyssdal.

Mike Sepso, Co-founder & CEO of Vindex, is an entrepreneur who has been instrumental in the formation and growth of the esports industry. In 2019, Sepso launched Vindex with initial funding of $80M to build a first-of-its-kind global esports infrastructure platform with the mission of providing the technology, services, innovation & experiences to take esports to the next level.

In 2002, Sepso co-founded Major League Gaming with Sundance DiGiovanni, growing it into the largest & most influential independent global esports league. In 2015, Sepso launched and operated Activision Blizzard’s first esports division where he launched the Overwatch League.

Across continents, countries, languages and industries, Irina Shames has operated within the world’s leading media companies, building their fundamental mechanisms of revenue and profit. Her hands-on leadership—with its proclivity for strategy, sales, and growth—helps businesses of all sizes discover and cement their key revenue channels.

Originally from Uzbekistan, Irina has held strategic revenue-driving posts in organizations from Berlin to London, and New York to LA. With an Executive MBA from ESCP Europe, she is multilingual, multifunctional, and a proven business innovator.

Throughout her career, she has been integral to both domestic and international multiplatform revenue growth for multiple prominent global media companies, such as CNN, Viacom, Liongate, WPP, Kevin Hart’s digital platform, as well as took emerging startups to market.

More recently, she’s turned to the horizon of new media as SVP, Strategy and Revenue at 3BLACKDOT, a leading player in the gaming landscape. While navigating the sector’s ever-emerging trends, Irina brings her extensive entertainment experience into gaming content, growing revenues and spearheading the company’s commercial growth.

Outside of the corporate world, Irina is a passionate educator. She’s a Digital Marketing instructor at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, where she molds the next generation of industry-leading marketers. She’s also a conference and keynote speaker, with appearances at SXSW, Digital Hollywood, among others.

Kristina is the VP of Global Advertising Sales and Partnerships at Roku, helping to manage Roku’s global agency and brand relationships while overseeing a sales team who work with clients such as; Verizon, Coca-Cola, Papa John’s, Nationwide and more. Kristina has been at Roku since early 2017 and has helped to break and grow business with what are now some of Roku’s largest clients. Kristina has been named to the 2021 AWNewYork Future Is Female Shortlist, 2021 Cynopsis It List, and most recently she was recognized in the 2023 AdMonsters Top Women in Media and Ad Tech Awards. Prior to Roku, Kristina was a Sales Director at a leading mobile ad tech company.

Eric Z. Sherman is the Executive Vice President of Insights & Analytics at GSTV. Reporting to the CEO, Eric oversees audience insights, ad effectiveness research and data strategy.


Prior to GSTV, as head of US media research at Twitter, Eric led a team charged with demonstrating and quantifying the value of Twitter to media companies, content owners and multi-platform marketers. Before joining Twitter, Eric oversaw audience measurement, ad effectiveness research and geospatial analytics for Clear Channel Outdoor’s $1.3 billion US advertising business. He also spent seven years at NBCUniversal, heading up ad sales research and web analytics for CNBC. Previously, at Digitas and Dynamic Logic, Eric advised clients on digital marketing strategy and measurement.

As CEO of Foursquare, David Shim is responsible for driving the company mission and vision as the world’s most trusted and independent location technology platform. David joined Foursquare in June 2019 as president of the company. Prior to joining Foursquare, David was the Founder and CEO of Placed, the leader in ad to in-store attribution. Founded in 2011, Placed worked with 430+ partners enabling over 500 advertisers to measure media’s impact on store visits. Placed was acquired by Snapchat in 2017 and Foursquare in 2019.

David has also held leadership roles across product and operations at Farecast (acquired by Microsoft), WebTrends, Quantcast, and Snapchat.

Jessica Sibley is the Chief Executive Officer of TIME.

As CEO, Sibley oversees the global media brand which includes TIME’s iconic magazine and digital platforms that reach the largest audience in TIME’s history of 120 million people around the world; the Emmy Award-winning film and television division TIME Studios that has generated more than $100 million in revenue; a rapidly growing global live events business built around the powerful TIME100 and Person of the Year franchises; an industry-leading web3 division; Red Border Studios, producer of award-winning branded content; TIME for Kids, which provides trusted news with a focus on news literacy for kids and valuable resources for teachers and families; the website-building platform TIME Sites, which TIME acquired in 2022; the sustainability and climate-action platform TIME CO2 and more.

Sibley has accelerated TIME’s digital transformation, expanded into new platforms, and revitalized its brand overall. In addition to unveiling and implementing her TIME 3.0 transformation plan, Sibley launched TIME into e-commerce for the first time with TIME Stamped and led the initiative to remove the paywall making TIME.com accessible to all readers around the world.

Under Sibley’s leadership, TIME has transformed its global events business, which convenes dynamic leaders from every sector, including members of the TIME100 community, with the mission to drive impact. In 2023, TIME will execute a record number of industry-leading events, including the TIME100 Gala and Summit, the Women of the Year Gala, the first-ever TIMECO2 Earth Awards, the TIME100 Impact Awards, which will expand from Dubai and Singapore to Israel and Rwanda for the first time this year, and more. For the first time, Sibley established a growing custom events business—with new offerings including the TIME Impact House, TIME100 Talks and others—that generated +55% year-over-year event revenue growth through partnerships with brands including Verizon, UBS, Meta, PMI, Nissan, and many more.

Sibley has led TIME’s initiatives to reach and build new audiences. Most recently, TIME debuted new extensions of the TIME100 franchise with TIME100 Voices, a new editorial platform dedicated to spotlighting the ideas and perspectives of the world’s most influential people, and the first-ever TIME100 AI list, which inspired a new series of events, with partners including Meta and Intel, focused on finding solutions to create a more inclusive future with AI.

With Sibley at the helm, TIME Studios expanded into audio with the Person of the Week podcast which reached more than 150k downloads in the first five weeks following its debut, while continuing to announce exciting projects including a new docuseries with Netflix following the U.S. Women’s World Cup team.

Since joining TIME, Sibley has also built an engaged community with her Inside by TIME newsletter, which reaches over 3k readers monthly, and regularly leads interviews with business leaders and CEOs, including on the Person of the Week: Executive Spotlight podcast from Red Border by TIME and TIME Studios.

Prior to joining TIME, Sibley was the Chief Operating Officer of Forbes, where she led all revenue and growth initiatives for the world’s largest business media brand. Under her direction, the revenue team at Forbes achieved five consecutive years of growth from 2018 to 2022 in overall revenue, the number of premium custom-content campaigns executed on behalf of top-tier clients, and the proliferation of ForbesLive and custom events, which generated significant new and recurring revenue streams.  

Sibley has also held senior leadership positions at The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and Condé Nast. Sibley is co-chair of IAB’s CRO Council, serves on the board of directors for The Ad Council, The Business Marketing Association, and is a Member of the Board of Advisors at Chief, Her Campus Media and Prota Fiori, a sustainable luxury footwear startup. When she is not leading the next phase of TIME’s evolution, Sibley is an avid runner and supportive mother of two. She is a graduate of Hobart and William Smith Colleges and resides in New York City.

Sibley was named to Variety’s New Power of New York List in 2023.

Shane Smith is the Founder and Executive Chairman of VICE Media Group, the largest independent youth media company with offices in 35 cities around the world. One of the industry’s most respected visionaries, Smith is also a critically acclaimed journalist, and executive producer for multiple Emmy Award-winning series from VICE News.

Smith launched VICE in 1994 as a punk magazine. The company has now expanded and diversified to include VICE News, home to television’s most Emmy-awarded nightly news broadcast; VICE Studios, a television and feature film production arm with celebrated projects Fyre: The Greatest Party that Never Happened for Netflix and The Report for Amazon; VIRTUE, the Cannes Lions Grand Prix-winning global creative agency; VICE, the Emmy-winning television network in 170 million homes worldwide; and VICE Digital, the all-platform publishing engine reaching 350 million every month; iconic fashion publications, i-D and Garage; Pulse Films, a global production studio that has doubled its business in the last year through its Grammy-nominated music videos and longform scripted and documentary content including The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann and the Emmy-winning Trophy for CNN; Refinery29, the leading female-focused lifestyle and entertainment destination.

Smith has reported from the world’s most isolated and difficult places, including North Korea, Iran, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Liberia and Greenland. Smith has been awarded numerous journalism and media awards, including the Cannes Lions 2016 ‘Media Person of the Year’, the 2014 Knight Innovation Award, multiple Environmental Media Awards, the Frank Stanton Award for Excellence, and more. VICE has also won scores of awards for its groundbreaking reporting, many Emmy Awards, the Pulitzer Prize, three Peabody Awards, the PEN Center 2014 Award of Honor, the Television Academy Honors for socially conscious programming.

In 2016, Smith was presented with an honorary doctorate from the University of the Arts London.

Zoe Soon has 10+ years of experience building products in technology-driven businesses with a heavy focus on mobile. Six years ago Zoe flew 21 hours from Sydney to NYC for a 30min coffee meeting which led to her first job in NYC. Since then she’s worked with three major New York based media companies, The New York Times, Condé Nast and Business Insider on projects ranging from location-based apps to paywalls. Zoe began her career as a user researcher and UX design consultant working with three of the top five banks in Australia. She was then hired to establish a user insights practice at Fairfax Media, a leading Australian news and media conglomerate. Here she led the user research for the flagship news apps which won Best Mobile News Product at the 2012 Australian Mobile Awards and went on to become product lead for the news sites. In this role she launched a content paywall and a unified user data system to diversify revenue and enable more targeted marketing.

Prior to joining the IAB Zoe was General Manager of apps and email at Business Insider where she was charged with defining the go-to market strategy for these platforms. In this role Zoe launched Insider Inc’s first OTT apps across Apple, Amazon Fire and Roku offering advertisers cross-platform video digital distribution and access to an audience that generates over 2 billion views each month.

Zoe has a Masters in Organizational Psychology and lives in New York. She enjoys burning pancakes, Cuban salsa dancing and talking to strangers in line.

Josh Stinchcomb is the Global Chief Revenue Officer of Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal where he oversees advertising and marketing solutions.


Prior to this role, Stinchcomb held numerous positions at Condé Nast, including SVP of Corporate Sales, Publisher of Condé Nast Digital and most recently, Chief Experience Officer, where he oversaw branded content, experiential and licensing.


In 2008, he was awarded Sales Team Leader of the Year by MIN (Media Industry Newsletters). In 2009, he received a Top Performance Award from Condé Nast, and in 2013 was named to AdAge’s 40 under 40. Josh is a regular speaker at industry events and an adjunct professor at NYU’s Master of Science in Publishing Program.


A graduate of Middlebury College in Vermont, Stinchcomb also has an M.B.A from New York University.

Andre is a proven leader and entrepreneur with a wide range of experience in marketing, finance, and starting and growing companies. As CEO and co-founder of Tru Optik, he has led the company’s business development, product innovation and go to market strategy. Under Andre’s leadership, Tru Optik has become the most relied upon DaaS (data as as service) partner across OTT, streaming audio and gaming. Tru Optik clients and partners include many of the largest publishers, ad tech platforms and advanced media. Andre is a frequent guest on Bloomberg and CNBC and often quoted in AdWeek and AdExchanger as an expert in streaming media and advanced advertising. Before founding Tru Optik, he served as a Vice President of Investments at JP Morgan Chase and also led the Media and Entertainment division at a boutique investment bank in New York City.

Kinsey Tamberrino is Vevo’s VP of East Coast Sales, based in New York. She is responsible for developing and growing national partnerships with major agency holding groups across the US. Kinsey is also in charge of overseeing the East Coast sales team. With a core background in Digital Video and Television, Kinsey has been an influential driver in promoting Vevo’s go-to-market strategy as a modern day premium content network, reaching large audiences at scale in a brand safe environment. Before she joined Vevo, Kinsey has held sales and management positions at Hulu, Food Network and Discovery.

As executive vice president, chief brand and marketing officer, Marisa Thalberg is responsible for leading our marketing organization and innovating new ways to inspire and engage customers. Marisa joined Lowe’s in 2020.

A globally recognized business strategist and brand-building innovator, Marisa is known for inspiring teams to take brands to new heights of consumer resonance, cultural relevance, and business performance. She joins Lowe’s from Taco Bell, where she served as global chief brand officer, envisioning and leading the company’s evolution to a culture-centric lifestyle brand. During Marisa’s tenure, Taco Bell achieved record sales growth, the highest passion index among fans of any brand in the restaurant industry and was the second-fastest growing brand in the nation, following only Netflix. Prior to Taco Bell, Marisa served as the head of corporate digital and integrated marketing worldwide for The Estée Lauder Companies and held various senior leadership roles at Unilever Cosmetics International, Sure Fit Inc., and Revlon. She started her career at advertising agencies Saatchi & Saatchi and J. Walter Thompson.

Marisa has been named one of the World’s 50 most Influential CMOs by Forbes in 2017, 2018 and 2019, as well as one of the top 25 most Innovative CMOs by Business Insider. Among her many other honors, she has been named a Power Player by the National Retail Federation and an Adweek Brand Genius. She also founded Executive Moms, an organization for working mothers.

Marisa serves on the board of directors for the International Women’s Media Foundation and the Orange County School of the Arts Foundation. She earned a bachelor’s degree in American civilization from Brown University, graduating magna cum laude.

Cherian is the Co-Founder & CEO of Octopus Interactive (“Octopus”)—the nation’s largest network of video-entertainment screens inside Uber and Lyft vehicles. Octopus partners with the some of the world’s largest brands including Disney, T-Mobile, Red Bull, Walmart, Marriott, CBS, National Geographic, Waze and more to deliver rich media content to a captive (and highly sought-after) rideshare audience. Octopus reaches millions of unique rideshare passengers every month in the nation’s top 20 DMAs.

Prior to founding Octopus, Cherian co-founded Spotluck—a restaurant discovery app with nearly half a million downloads. Spotluck combined gamification with proprietary dynamic pricing software to change restaurant prices based on day, time and weather. Spotluck topped the AppStore charts and later pivoted into Octopus after seeing the power of rideshare marketing to acquire users for Spotluck.
Cherian received his MBA from Hood College and his Executive Masters in Leadership from Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. In 2017, he delivered the Graduate School Commencement at Hood College becoming the college’s youngest recipient of an Honorary Doctorate since 1893. Cherian serves as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at McDonough School of Business and is an active member of the Board of Associates at Hood College.
Cherian commutes to work via electric skateboard bringing his equally electric energy to team meetings. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland with his wife Catherine and two kiddos.

Danielle Tiedt joined Google in May of 2012 as YouTube’s Chief Marketing Officer, and since then has worked to showcase and grow the magic of the platform. Under her leadership, YouTube Marketing has focused on building mainstream recognition for YouTube Creators, shows, and endemic music artists across 76 countries, developing YouTube Music and YouTube TV, bringing the first ever YouTube Kids app to market, launching the YouTube Premium subscription service, and creating a series of beautiful, fun, and crazy moments celebrating YouTube fans and the role they play in the culture we love.

Douglas Veney is a content creator fluent in gaming and brands. His double life as social media gaming influencer, @goodgamebro, and marketing expert intersected when he joined Nestlé in 2016. The following year he became their Influencer & Esports Marketing Manager, lending his expertise in content creation and digital marketing.

Originally from Virginia, his content creation across various channels has grown his following to more than 500,000 total followers including YouTube and Facebook Gaming.

Before Nestlé, Douglas led Web Strategy at Rosetta Stone for their e-commerce and support website across all languages.

The father of two resides in Cleveland, OH.

Suzi Watford is EVP & CMO at The Wall Street Journal, overseeing global sales and marketing for The Wall Street Journal. Leading an international team, Suzi spearheads WSJ’s strategy, brand marketing, subscription and memberships – from students through to professional memberships and networks. The Wall Street Journal now has the largest membership in it’s history. Alongside this she is responsible for the fast growing Live Journalism conferences and events business, WSJ partnerships and the global loyalty proposition WSJ+.

With twenty years of experience in the media industry, Suzi joined Dow Jones from News UK where she served as Sales and Marketing Director for The Times and The Sunday Times. She is based in NYC.

Reginald Williams is the svp, programming for Conde Nast Entertainment. At CNE, Williams works closely with president Oren Katzeff to supervise global digital programming, including CNE’s growing podcast team. Williams also collaborates with key stakeholders to pursue ambitious digital storytelling across Condé Nast’s iconic portfolio of brands.

Prior to joining CNE in November 2019, Williams most recently served as founder and CEO of Ambrosia For Heads (AFH), a hip-hop lifestyle digital media company with multi-platform
content across its website, social media channels and OTT subscription video service. Before founding his own company, he held senior-level roles at BET and MTV leading sizable programming teams.

Williams began his career as a corporate attorney at Paul Hastings before transitioning into entertainment law. He graduated from Harvard College and earned his JD at Harvard Law
School. He is based in New York City.

Marshall got his start nearly 30 years ago an early adopter, salesman and advocate of direct response radio. He quickly became one of the larger buyers of endorsement radio in the US for various companies before venturing out on his own when he formed the Williams Media Group in 1997.
A year later, Williams connected with current business partner Russell Lindley, to form “Ad Results, Inc.” and in 2016 Ad Results, Inc. merged with “Brown Bear Digital, Inc.”, founded by current Partners Steve Shanks, Kurt Kaufer and Michael Kropko.

Arif ‘Azerrz’ Lopez does it all! He sings, he acts, he dances, and he creates some of the most hilarious voice impressions on YouTube. His channel focuses on voice overs, game trolling, impressions, prank calls, dubs, and skits. His channel skyrocketed from his video impressions of Obama, Pennywise and Kendrick Lamar.