Randall has been the CEO of the Interactive Advertising Bureau since 2007. Previously, he was the Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Director of Intellectual Capital at Booz Allen Hamilton, the international strategy and consulting firm where he also directed the award-winning business journal strategy+business and other electronic and print publications. Earlier, Randall spent six years at The New York Times, where he was the technology and politics editor of the Sunday magazine, daily advertising columnist, and a media and marketing reporter. He is author of Where the Suckers Moon: An Advertising Story. He received a B.A. in Classics from Princeton University and resides in New York City.

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Kirk McDonald is a media and technology industry leader with over 25 years of experience working with the world’s leading brands, media companies and technology providers. He is the Chief Business Officer at Xandr, the AT&T advertising and analytics company. The company, established in fall 2017 provides a premium advertising marketplace for buyers and sellers across all platforms. As CBO, Kirk is responsible for the go to market functions inclusive of sales, product marketing, and marketing strategy/execution.

Before joining AT&T, Kirk was President of PubMatic, Inc. a leading marketing automation software company sitting at the intersection of media and technology. Prior to PubMatic, Kirk was President of Digital, Time Inc. He also served as Chief Advertising Officer of the Fortune|Money Group, overseeing worldwide advertising sales, integrated marketing, and the events business. He’s previously held senior sales, marketing and client success positions at Aquantive’s DRIVEpm and Atlas Enterprise, CNET, ZiffDavis and Condé Nast.

Kirk has been fortunate to receive many professional awards, including: Ebony Magazine Power 100 2018, Adweek’s 2015 “50 List of Vital Leaders in Tech, Media and Marketing,” Adweek’s 2014 “12 Stars of Ad Tech Who are Building the Future of the Industry Right Now,” Business Insider’s 2014 “The 46 Most Important African-Americans in Technology,” Business Insider’s 2013 “The 25 Most Influential African-Americans in Technology,” and Business Insider’s 2012 “THE SILICON ALLEY 100: The Coolest People in New York Tech This Year”.

Kirk’s commentary on key technology trends and the future of media have been published in leading industry and trade publications including WSJ, Huffington Post, Beet.TV, AdExchanger, Adweek, The Drum, and many more.

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

Krishan Bhatia serves as EVP, Business Operations & Strategy for NBCUniversal’s Advertising Sales division, reporting to Linda Yaccarino, Chairman, Advertising Sales & Client Partnerships. Bhatia oversees the division’s product capabilities, technology platforms and operations as well as the strategy, insights, measurement and analytics functions — spanning its TV and digital portfolio.

Bhatia leads the company’s digital and advanced advertising offerings, under the Audience Studio umbrella, including NBCUniversal’s programmatic, addressable, linear optimization, and social advertising capabilities. He also manages the company’s advertising partnerships, including with Amazon, Apple, Comcast/FreeWheel, Google/YouTube, Hulu, Snap, Twitter, Verizon Media and Vox.

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

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

Bhatia serves as a board member of OpenAP, TrustX, Digital Content Next (DCN) and the Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG).

Alysia Borsa is chief marketing and data officer at Meredith Corporation, a leading media company that reaches 175 million unduplicated American consumers every month, including 80 percent of U.S. millennial women. In this role, Borsa leads corporate marketing strategy, integrated marketing communications, first-party data strategy and management, and consumer- and advertiser-focused insights and analytics across all of Meredith’s 40+ national media channels.

Borsa is a seasoned marketing executive who has driven successful business development and marketing initiatives for various companies. She joined Meredith Digital in 2011 as vice president of product, which was a new role responsible for setting strategic direction and execution of key initiatives that differentiated and leveraged the company’s assets in the mobile and consumer data marketplaces.

Prior to joining Meredith, Borsa was head of partner integration and portfolio planning at Nokia, where she led the business development team charged with growing subscriptions and renewals. Borsa also held senior management roles at Comcast as a product marketing lead and Accenture as a strategy consultant in the tech and telecom markets.

Borsa is a graduate of Wilfrid Laurier University where she earned a Bachelor of Business degree. She also earned an MBA from the University of Western Ontario in Canada.

Rita Ferro was named President, Advertising Sales for The Walt Disney Company in February, 2017. Ms. Ferro had served as Executive Vice President of Media Sales and Marketing for Disney Channels Worldwide for nearly seven years. In appointing her to her new position, Disney consolidated all advertising sales functions and ad revenue-generating strategies for all of the company’s domestic entertainment, news, kids, digital and radio businesses under her. She also runs ad outreach for Disney’s online, mobile and social properties. The move put one person in charge of selling all the Disney entertainment-TV assets, as more advertisers insist upon being able to buy ads across a company’s various media properties, rather than having to negotiate separate deals for each of the various broadcast, cable, and digital outlets under a media conglomerate’s umbrella. Disney recently had different senior ad-sales executives for ABC, Freeform and Ferro’s portfolio. She reports to Bruce Rosenblum, newly appointed president of business operations.

“We are combining the unmatched power of the Disney-ABC portfolio of brands, franchises and shows to create a one-stop shop for our advertising clients,” Disney | ABC Television Group president Ben Sherwood said at the time of Ms. Ferro’s appointment. “This new, simplified structure will create innovative and targeted opportunities that showcase the quality and reach of our content. Rita has done a tremendous job developing unparalleled relationships with clients and marketers and building the best kids and family sales team in the media industry.”

With its move, Disney is building a structure mirroring that of rivals such as NBCUniversal, Time Warner’s Turner or 21st Century Fox, all of which have placed the majority of their media brands under the oversight of a single executive.

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

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

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

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

Jean-Philippe (JP) Maheu leads our global Agency Partnership and Brand Strategy teams. He joined Twitter through the acquisition of Bluefin Labs where he was the CEO of the leading SocialTV analytics company. Under JP’s leadership, Bluefin achieved remarkable sales traction with leading brands and strengthened its market leading position. Twitter’s acquisition of Bluefin Labs led AdAge to name JP as one of the eight great digital hires of 2012.

Prior to Bluefin Labs, JP served in executive leadership positions at Razorfish, Ogilvy & Mather and Publicis Modem. He spent six years with Razorfish, where he ascended into the role of CEO for the last two years of his tenure, leading the vision, strategy and growth of the company. Following Razorfish, Maheu was the chief digital officer of Ogilvy & Mather, where he was responsible for digital growth and innovation across the company’s operating units. More recently, JP was the Global CEO of Publicis Modem, the digital marketing unit of Publicis Worldwide, which is the largest agency within Publicis Groupe.

JP holds a MBA from J.L. Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University and a M.S. in Network & Computer Sciences from Pierre et Marie Curie University in Paris, France. JP lives in NYC with his wife and two teenage children.

Kim Norris is a senior cable advertising and media executive with over 20 years of experience in general management leading sales, strategy and new ad technology products and data solutions for multiple cable operators. As Group Vice President, Digital & Advanced Advertising Sales, Kim is responsible for leading the sales teams in the Northeast and a robust enterprise wide digital business. An industry thought leader and innovator; Norris has established a record of success running both traditional media sales and incubating and deploying transformative new advertising products at the convergence of media, technology and data.

Prior to Joining Spectrum Reach, Norris was Chief Operating Officer for Viamedia and worked with the company’s 60 MVPD partners across the US on both traditional and OTT and mobile streaming and programmatic advertising monetization with local, regional and national advertisers in 70 DMA’s across the country. While at Viamedia, she successfully launched an addressable platform with Google Fiber in Kansas City and led the company’s programmatic TV platform placemedia.
 
Previously, Norris held senior sales and product roles at both Comcast and Cablevision. As EVP of Emerging Business & Data Analytics at Cablevision, Norris drove the advanced advertising product roadmap and commercial strategy for set top box data and addressable and interactive television advertising that established Cablevision as an advertising industry leader and innovator. At Comcast she was a Division Vice President for the Northeast television markets following Comcast’s acquisition of ATT Cable. Norris also served as the founding President of the DPAA (Digital Place-based Advertising Association) in the digital out-of-home advertising industry.

Norris has served on advisory committees for television and digital industry groups and several technology companies. Multichannel News and Women in Cable Telecommunications (WICT) named her a “Wonder Woman” in 2013. She is a Cynopsis 2016 ‘Top Women in Digital” and has been recognized by Cablefax as a “Top Woman in Cabletech” 2011-2016 and is a WICT Betsey Magness Fellow. In 2010, she received the “Most Significant Product or Platform” award from ITVT for leadership in interactive and multiplatform television.

Marian Pittman is Cox Media Group’s Executive Vice President. In this role, Marian oversees digital strategy, content and sales efforts for all of CMG’s newspapers, radio and TV platforms. Marian also is responsible for CMG’s Digital Content Desk, Fans First Media, as well as the Washington News Bureau and CMG’s Research division. Previously, she oversaw all content and marketing strategic decision making for CMG’s television markets as VP of News and Marketing.

Marian’s media career includes being station manager for CMG’s flagship WSB-TV, the leading local channel for television news serving the 55 counties in the Atlanta TV market. She oversaw news, programming, public affairs, and engineering. Additionally, during her WSB-TV career, she served as news director and oversaw the daily news operations and long-term planning for over 45 hours of news coverage each week. Under her leadership since July 2006, the station strengthened its dominant position as the news leader in North Georgia.

Marian’s other career highlights include serving as the assistant news director at CMG’s WFTV in Orlando. There, she played a significant role in WFTV’s award winning coverage of Hurricanes Charlie, Frances, and Jeanne. From 2000 through 2003, she was senior executive producer of news at WSB-TV and was chosen and participated in the Cox Executive Leadership Program. She started on the floor crew at CMG’s WSOC-TV in Charlotte, NC, followed by stints at WHIO-TV in Dayton, OH, WSB-TV in Atlanta, and WFTV in Orlando before returning to WSB-TV in July 2006.

Throughout her career, Marian has been honored with multiple individual and station Emmy awards from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Southeast Chapter. In 2010 the station was awarded the prestigious Alfred I. duPontAward for journalistic excellence, the Edward R. Murrow award for overall excellence, as well as Best Newscast by the Georgia Association of Broadcasters. In 2008, Pittman was awarded Top 10 TV Managers of the Year by Television Week Magazine. In 2007 and 2008 under Marian’s leadership, WSB-TV was awarded Best Newscast, Best Staff Coverage and Pacemaker Award from the Georgia Associated Press Broadcasters Association numerous times. She also serves on the COX Fellowship Advisory Board to Emory and The FernbankMuseum of Natural History Corporate Council. She previously served on the Board of Directors for the ABC Affiliate Advisory Board, the Board of Directors for Hosea Feed the Hungry and Homeless and has been a member of the Radio Television News Directors Association since 2003. Marian earned a Bachelor of Science degree in communications from East Carolina University and currently resides in Atlanta, Ga. with her husband and daughter.

Rik van der Kooi is Corporate Vice President of the Microsoft Advertising Business Group (MSA BG). In this capacity, van der Kooi has overall responsibility for building and scaling Microsoft’s advertising offerings globally. The MSA BG is the advertising engine that monetizes Microsoft’s consumer assets, generating in excess of US$4 billion annually. The MSA BG defines the advertising product strategy, marketing and sales motion for search, display and emerging solutions across all surface areas, including PC, mobile, tablets, and TV platforms. Offerings include marketer and agency solutions, paid search, data and targeting offerings, the Microsoft Media Network, the Microsoft Advertising Exchange, Atlas, social media, mobile, publisher offerings, and premium brand display solutions. Van der Kooi is also accountable for the success of the combined Microsoft + Yahoo Search Alliance, and has executive oversight over the company’s expanding digital ecosystem partnership strategy.

Prior to taking over as leader of MSA BG, van der Kooi served as CFO and corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Online Services Division (OSD), where he was responsible for all financial matters for the group. Before that, he had stints as chief financial officer of Windows; general manager of finance and administration for the Sales, Marketing and Services Group in EMEA, based in Paris; and finance director for the Benelux countries. He joined Microsoft in 1999.

Before he joined Microsoft, van der Kooi was chief financial officer of IBC Vehicles Ltd, a subsidiary of General Motors Corporation, in Luton, United Kingdom. He held several other finance and business positions within GM’s European operations in Spain and the United Kingdom.

Van der Kooi holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de la Empresa (IESE) in Barcelona, Spain, and a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Nyenrode University in The Netherlands. He is married and has three children. In his spare time, he enjoys running, soccer and music.

Konrad Feldman, CEO, co-founded and launched Quantcast in 2006 along with Paul Sutter to transform the effectiveness of online advertising through the use of science and scalable computing. Prior to co-founding Quantcast, Feldman co-founded Searchspace (now Fortent) the leading provider of terrorist financing detection and anti-money laundering software for the world’s financial services industry. As CEO of Searchspace’s North American business, he established the business in the US and directed its rapid growth to become a market leader. Prior to Searchspace, Feldman was a Research Fellow in the Intelligent Systems Laboratory at University College London. Feldman holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from University College, London.

Tom Fochetta is a highly-experienced business leader and media veteran with more than 20 years of digital advertising experience. He currently serves as Vice President of Samsung Ads, a leading provider of Advanced TV advertising solutions. Tom has a proven track record for spearheading high-impact sales teams at world-class media, commerce and hardware companies, including Google and Amazon.

Throughout Tom’s career, he’s displayed a knack for identifying opportunities to grow businesses and industries from the ground floor, helping to drive vision and momentum and building long-term sustainable growth. So when Tom joined Samsung Ads, he had a personal goal to take the playbook of his past successes and bring to life the monetization efforts of Samsung—who had yet to enter the advertising market. In Samsung Ads, he saw an opportunity to help shape a nascent industry, one that needed competent leadership, industry-wide standards and real solutions. Here was a unique opportunity to organize and create products within a changing landscape, centered around video.

As the founding executive of Samsung Ads (2015), Tom was tasked with establishing its global ad sales platform. Among his responsibilities, he leads the Americas’ ad sales, client solutions, and operations, and oversees the Company’s advertising platform across Samsung’s Smart TV and digital ecosystem. Tom reports up into Samsung’s Corporate Offices in South Korea and frequently travels to Seoul to inform Executive Leadership of Market Conditions and to seek further investment.

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

Prior to joining Samsung Ads, Tom was the Director of National Display Advertising Sales for Amazon, where he saw an opportunity to unlock a unique data source that had yet to be realized. During his six years at Amazon, Tom successfully established a robust and successful advertising program. He was a member of the founding leadership team that built and monetized Amazon’s display, video and native advertising business.

Before joining Amazon, Tom spent nearly six years at Google. As Head of Industry for the retail category, he managed a national sales organization focusing on new business development and customer management, seeing great success in his efforts to sell the company’s suite of online and offline advertising solutions, primarily to Fortune 500 clients.

Tom also served as Vice President of Sales at Google’s DoubleClick (today called Google Ad Manager), and was responsible for 75% of the total company profits from selling software and professional services.

Tom is an outspoken advocate for the Advanced TV industry. He has taken an active role with the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), sitting on its Video Center Board of Directors, and participates in its Advanced TV Committee, along with many other industry associations. Tom frequently participates in industry conferences to help educate the industry on Connected TV and evangelize Samsung Ads’ platform.

Tom holds an MBA and a Bachelor of Science in Marketing and Management from St. John’s University. He lives on Long Island with his wife and two sons.

Rajeev Goel co-founded PubMatic in 2006, based on the belief that publishers are underserved from a technology and services perspective, and set out to build an automation software company focused on publishers. Under his leadership, the company has grown and matured into a major enterprise provider with more than 350 employees and 13 locations around the globe. The high pace of revenue and profit growth is fueled by Rajeev’s commitment to help publishers protect, monetize and manage their most valuable asset – the relationship between consumers, content and brands.

Rajeev is a serial entrepreneur who has raised more than $250 million in funding throughout his career.

Prior to PubMatic, he co-founded Chipshot.com, a leading online retailer of custom-built golf equipment, where he served as vice president of technology. At Chipshot, Rajeev also led product management and development, helping grow the company into a $30 million business. An experienced management consultant, he was also a principal at Diamond Management and Technology Consultants, an IT strategy consulting firm for Fortune 2000 clients, where he led teams on IT strategy engagements. In addition, Rajeev was a product marketing executive at SAP, where he was responsible for global go-to-market strategy for new products.

Rajeev served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Ad Council, a nonprofit organization and the largest producer of national public service campaigns in the U.S. He holds a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor’s degree in economics, political science and Spanish from the Johns Hopkins University.  

Chris Guenther is Senior Vice President, Global Head of Programmatic and GM of News IQ for News Corp, focused on driving programmatic and ad tech collaboration across the media and information company’s global properties. Formerly, he was Vice President of Business Operations for Hearst Magazines International, working on sales operations and programmatic advertising across the digital businesses outside the United States.

Mr. Guenther previously served as VP, Digital Operations & Monetization at Conde Nast. Prior to that, he was head of Business Development for the Wall Street Journal Digital Network, and worked in the Corporate Strategy and Franchise Development groups of Dow Jones. He was also an associate at the Jordan Edmiston Group, a boutique investment bank focused on media. He has a master’s degree in business from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree from Colgate University.

As President and Head of Products and Platforms of LiveRamp, Acxiom’s Connectivity Division, Anneka leads the product, engineering, marketing and general and administrative functions. Anneka is an early member of the LiveRamp team and most recently served as LiveRamp’s Chief Product Officer, overseeing product strategy and execution. During her seven-year tenure with the business, she has led successful efforts in a variety of disciplines, including marketing, recruiting, product management and software development. In 2016, Anneka was recognized as a Top 10 Digital Marketing Innovator by AdAge. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Computational Sciences from Stanford University and has completed the Executive Program at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

As CRO for IBM Watson Advertising, Jeremy Hlavacek is responsible for all global advertising sales efforts including premium direct sales, programmatic sales, agency partnerships and data partnerships. His teams work across Watson Advertising’s portfolio of media, data, and AI-powered technology solutions, which includes The Weather Company’s consumer platforms such as weather.com and The Weather Channel apps. Watson Advertising’s offerings help agencies and marketers improve decision-making and drive value across key facets of the marketing lifecycle – from media planning to targeting and activation to measurement and optimization.

Previously, Hlavacek was SVP, global automated monetization for The Weather Company. In that role, he oversaw all programmatic monetization efforts globally and the data partnerships team, which drives off-property data and inventory partnerships with platforms and other publishers. Hlavacek was promoted from vice president of programmatic, where he was responsible for all domestic programmatic sales efforts, platform relationships and programmatic operations. Under his leadership, the programmatic business grew 500% over a 3 year period to become one of the largest and most sophisticated sell side programmatic businesses in the industry. In 2017, AdExchanger ranked The Weather Company’s programmatic business as #2 in the industry among all publishers in media and broadcasting. Hlavacek joined Weather in early 2013 as vice president of operations and strategic partnerships for the company’s WEATHERfx division, where he oversaw technology partnerships and business operations to support the WEATHERfx business.

Prior to Weather, Hlavacek was vice president of strategy and business operations at Varick Media Management, where he helped to build one of the first programmatic trading desks on the agency side. He was responsible for strategic platform partnerships in the ad tech/real-time bidding ecosystem, as well as the business and financial operations of the company.

Hlavacek’s previous experience includes building out digital marketing and gaming experiences at LEGO Toys, directing advertising strategy and business development at Dotmenu (an online food ordering startup acquired by GrubHub/Seamless), and building out digital experiences for entertainment programming at CBS Television. On the agency side, Jeremy has held senior strategic roles at Ogilvy and Cadient Group, where he advised clients in healthcare, financial services and technology.

Hlavacek holds a master’s degree in business administration from Cornell University, a master’s degree in media and communication from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a bachelor’s degree from the College of William and Mary.

As President, Steve Horowitz oversees all aspects of Ziff Davis including the five business units – Ziff Davis Tech & Commerce; IGN; Ookla; Ziff Davis B2B; and Ziff Davis International. Steve will continue to assist Everyday Health businesses in their development and strategy, and be a key member of the j2 corporate leadership team.

Horowitz was formerly Senior Vice President, General Manager at Bankrate Inc., the leading aggregator of personal finance and mortgage content. At Bankrate, he directed product and business strategy and spearheaded the portal’s transformation into one of the leading destinations that allowed consumers to research and purchase consumer financial products, ranging from mortgages to deposit products to credit cards.

Prior to Bankrate, Horowitz served as Vice President of e-commerce classifieds at AOL and held director positions in business and sales strategy for classifieds and local properties with Yahoo! and GeoCities. He also served as Associate Director of internet marketing for BMG Music Club (Bertelsmann), Director of Internet Venues at eDrive.com and as Online Publicist for Turner Entertainment Group at Turner Broadcasting Systems, Inc.

Horowitz received a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in English from the State University of New York at Oswego.

Born and raised in New York, Jesse Horwitz has always had a strong grasp of economics and finance. He studied both fields at Columbia University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa/Magna Cum Laude. During his time at Columbia, he also developed an interest in Film Studies, although following an internship with Sony Picture’s Television Division, he quickly learned that a life in Hollywood was not for him.

Horwitz ultimately decided to take a different path, and spent a year at Harvard Law School, where he met his husband, Mark Severs and secured an internship with Bridgewater Associates. It was at Bridgewater that Jesse met his future business partner, Benjamin Cogan. Horwitz moved on from Harvard to work full time for Bridgewater and then founded Gadfly, a systematic trading firm with Michael Naber, a colleague from Bridgewater.

Horwitz joined the investment team for Columbia University’s endowment in 2013, where he spent the last few years investing across the alternatives landscape – private equity, venture capital, hedge funds and real estate. During his time at Columbia, he built a strong network across the investor community, including Two River, a life sciences merchant bank that invested in and brought together the round for Hubble.

Now Horwitz is Co-Founder and Co-CEO at Hubble, a direct-to-consumer, subscription contact lens company, where Horwitz focuses his efforts on fundraising, business development and regulation compliance. Since launching in November 2016, Hubble has become one of the fastest growing, direct-to-consumer e-commerce companies in the U.S. Horwitz and Cogan earned a spot on Forbes’ prestigious “30 Under 30” list in 2016 and Hubble recently extended its footprint into Canada, the UK and the Netherlands in the past year.

Julie Jacobs is Executive Vice President & General Counsel of Verizon Media Inc., a global technology and digital media company with a dynamic house of brands that reach over one billion people around the world. Yahoo (Yahoo Mail, Yahoo.com, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo News and Yahoo Sports), AOL (AOL Mail and AOL.com), Huffington Post, TechCrunch, Tumblr, MAKERS, Ryot, Build Studios and Autoblog are among the brands in Verizon Media’s portfolio. The company, a subsidiary of Verizon, employs over 12,000 people across offices in 24 countries.

Julie has over two decades of experience in the global media technology industry. She is a proven leader who identifies strategic business priorities and effectively executes against them while promoting organizational culture and values and protecting consumer and company interests. In her current role, she led the integration of the Yahoo and AOL Legal Departments following the acquisition of Yahoo and is responsible for all Legal, Regulatory, Privacy and Compliance matters for Verizon Media.

Craig Kostelic is chief business officer, revenue at Condé Nast, heading up all advertising sales across the Condé Nast portfolio.

Kostelic most recently served as the chief business officer of The Lifestyle Collection, including The Food Innovation Group (Bon Appétit and Epicurious), Architectural Digest, Condé Nast Traveler and SELF, overseeing all revenue and brand development for the collection of brands.

Previously, Kostelic served as head of revenue and head of digital for The Food Innovation Group. Under his sales and digital leadership, The Food Innovation Group hit record highs in terms of revenue, profitability and digital audience growth. Prior to his role at the Food Innovation Group, Kostelic also served as digital advertising director at Condé Nast Traveler, where he was responsible for all digital revenue streams and oversaw the launch of CNTraveler.com.

Before joining Conde Nast, Kostelic worked at Google where he was responsible for developing and managing national strategic sales for Mobile Display within the automotive vertical. Prior to Google, Craig held numerous sales and marketing roles at Microsoft and Johnson & Johnson.

Katie Kulik is Executive Vice President, Global Digital Sales at ViacomCBS.

Prior to becoming EVP, Global Digital Sales, Kulik was the Global Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for CBS Interactive’s Tech, Games, Lifestyle and Business groups. For the renowned brands CNET, GameSpot, Chow, Last.fm and others, Kulik leads global revenue and product marketing and directs agency and client media strategy and implementation. A veteran sales and marketing executive, Kulik is an expert in premium digital media and understands how to connect brands with customers anywhere.

In her role as Global Senior Vice President Kulik directed a worldwide team of more than 100 sales and product-marketing professionals dedicated to building major campaigns for brands across CBSi’s ecosystem of screens, from online to mobile and social platforms. Kulik has designed innovative marketing programs for nearly every major technology and CE brand, as well as major auto, CPG, and retail industries.
Kulik’s other expertise lies in change management, helping sales and marketing teams rapidly adjust to – and embrace – the ever-changing digital landscape and the resulting implications on consumer buying habits.

Prior to joining CBS Interactive she was in ad sales with the Motley Fool.

She earned a bachelors degree in Economics and Psychology from Lake Forest College and lives with her husband and daughters in Tiburon, CA.

Seth Ladetsky is senior vice president of Turner Digital Sports Ad Sales, managing sales efforts for Turner’s digital sports destinations, with a specific concentration on NBA, NCAA, Golf and NASCAR digital sales. He is based in New York and reports to Greg D’Alba, president of CNN Networks and Turner Digital Ad Sales.

In this role, Seth is responsible for managing Turner’s relationships and sales with key partners across the NBA, NCAA, PGA and NASCAR. With oversight for national sales in Atlanta, Detroit and New York, Ladetsky is charged with leading a team that sells integrated marketing solutions for advertisers online, within video-on-demand and mobile products while also engineering innovative licensing, marketing and promotional partnerships with advertisers. In 2013, Ladetsky played an integral role in launching the first execution of Turner’s sales and content agreement with Twitter to promote real-time highlights from live events and continues to monetize mobile inventory through the partnership with activations around NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Tournament and NBA Playoffs, to date.

A Turner veteran of over 17 years, Seth began his career at Turner in CNN Ad Sales. In 2001, he transferred to the digital side of the business as an account executive and then sales manager for the Turner Sports Digital division. He held ascending positions until he was promoted to senior vice president in 2011, managing national sales for the NCAA digital business, including live streaming of the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball tournament, March Madness Live. He had oversight of Turner’s digital sales teams based in New York responsible for selling all Turner Digital properties across sports, news and entertainment, including CNN.com, Funny Or Die, TBS.com, adultswim.com and others.

Seth’s extensive digital background provides unique insight to the evolution of the digital landscape and marketplace over the years, and he is an expert in the space.

Seth earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania, where he pursued a double major in International Relations and Communications. A native of Valley Stream, N.Y, Ladetsky now calls Milburn, N.J. home with his wife and three children.

Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner company, creates and programs branded news, entertainment, animation and young adult media environments on television and other platforms for consumers around the world.

Ryan Mayward is the Global Head of Agency Development at Amazon. He and his team are responsible for building relationships with advertising agencies worldwide, including working with media agencies to enable self-service adoption of Amazon DSP.

Ryan joined Amazon in April 2012 from Simulmedia, where he was the Sr. Director of Ad Sales. Prior to Simulmedia he built the national programmatic sales team at NBCUniversal. He’s also held sales and business development roles at TACODA, Inc., before the AOL/Advertising.com acquisition.

Ryan holds a BA from Arizona State University and a JD from Brooklyn Law School. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two daughters.

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

Penry Price is the Vice President for LinkedIn’s Marketing Solutions business. In this role he oversees the large global team responsible for building the strategic partnerships necessary to raise awareness of and drive revenue for the company and its customers. His deep knowledge and passion for the advertising ecosystem plays a significant role in the transformation of LinkedIn’s advertising business as it evolves into a content marketing platform for brands.

Penry joined LinkedIn from Dstillery (formerly Media6Degrees), where as President, he provided direction for the ad tech firm’s partnerships and managed day-to-day revenue and marketing operations. Prior to his tenure at Dstillery, he held many top sales positions at Google. There, he led the North American Sales and Account Management teams before leading business strategy and global partnerships with advertising agencies — a part of Google’s business that represented 30% of its global revenue. He ended his seven-year tenure at Google as Vice President of Global Agency Sales and Partnerships.

Penry spent his early career in a variety of sales and sales management roles at Wenner Media and Hachette Filipacchi.

Penry holds a Bachelor of Arts from Hobart College. In 2008, he was named to the AAF Advertising Hall of Achievement, which includes people who have demonstrated great leadership in the industry. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Church & Dwight (NYSE:CHD) and the Board of Directors of Dstillery. He is also on the Board of Advisors of Outward Bound USA, and sits on the Board of Governors of dmg Media.

Prabhakar Raghavan is a Senior Vice President at Google, and oversees Google’s Advertising and Commerce products, including search, display and video advertising, analytics, shopping, payments, and travel. In addition, he is responsible for infrastructure teams that provide much of the software backbone for search, ads and other groups.

Previously, he served as Vice President of Google Apps, Google Cloud, overseeing engineering, products and user experience. Under his leadership, the Apps business expanded from a set of consumer apps to an enterprise solution that is a major contributor to Google’s Cloud business. He also grew both Gmail and Drive past 1 billion MAUs and introduced a number of machine intelligence features in G Suite, including Smart Reply, Smart Compose, Drive Quick Access — each leading to measurable improvements in user experience.

Prior to joining Google, Prabhakar founded and led Yahoo! Labs where he was responsible for search and ad ranking, as well as ad marketplace design, and later served as the company’s Chief Strategy Officer. He also served as CTO at Verity, and held various positions over the course of 14 years at IBM with a focus on algorithms, data mining and machine learning.

Prabhakar holds a Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. His research background spans algorithms, web search and databases. He is the co-author of two widely-used graduate texts on algorithms and on search: Randomized Algorithms and Introduction to Information Retrieval; a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the ACM and IEEE; and was a Consulting Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. In 2009, he was awarded a Laurea honoris causa from the University of Bologna. He has served as editor in chief for the Journal of the ACM, has published over 100 papers in various fields and holds 20 issued patents, including several on link analysis for web search.

Gretchen Saegh-Fleming is the Chief Marketing Officer of L’Oréal USA, a position she was appointed to
in 2018.

As Chief Marketing Officer, Gretchen is responsible for the entire marketing function of L’Oréal USA
including driving new marketing models, digital innovations and strategic partnerships across the
company’s portfolio of more than 30 iconic brands.

Prior to her current role, Gretchen served as a Senior Vice President of Digital and Marketing for L’Oréal
USA’s Luxe division where she led the direct-to-consumer business for luxury brands like Yves Saint
Laurent Beauté, Giorgio Armani Beauty & Fragrance, Urban Decay, IT Cosmetics and Clarisonic.

Gretchen joined L’Oréal USA in 2012 as a Vice President of e-commerce and digital innovation within the
Luxe division where she launched an omnichannel ecommerce strategy to engage and retain customers
and drove the digital transformation of the brands within the portfolio.

Before joining L’Oréal, Gretchen held various leadership roles at startups and at General Electric, where
she launched GE’s digital “ecomagination” brand campaign and website in China and led a digital
rebranding efforts for GE Healthcare.

Gretchen holds a master’s degree in business administration from Boston College and a bachelor’s
degree from Dartmouth College.

Dave Spector is the Co-Founder/Co-CEO of ThirdLove, the fastest growing and most disruptive brand in the lingerie industry. Dave has always been an entrepreneur, starting his first company in college and another during business school. Prior to founding ThirdLove, he focused on consumer internet, e-commerce, and analytics investing as a Partner at Sequoia Capital. One investment, in Stella & Dot, got him particularly interested in female-focused e-commerce. Before Sequoia, Dave was at IBM and Google, where he helped lead Google’s first efforts in commerce with the launch of Google Checkout, Product Search, and Google Analytics. Outside of ThirdLove, he’s an angel investor in two dozen companies and an advisor to others.

Dave has been recognized as: National Retail Federation Disruptors, Goldman Sachs’ 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs and EY Entrepreneur of the Year in Northern California. Dave’s also a certified pilot and enjoys competing in triathlons.

Nada C. Stirratt is the Vice President, North America, Global Business Group for Facebook. Prior to Facebook, Nada served as the Chief Executive Officer of Verve Wireless, Inc., a provider of SaS-location-based mobile advertising solutions for retail, auto, CPG, restaurants, and other drive-to-retail brand advertisers.

Nada also previously served as Chief Revenue Officer and Executive Vice President for Acxiom, the data-mining and analytics company. In this role, Nada led all of the client-facing areas of the business, including field, account management, and consulting across the globe.

Stirratt came to Acxiom with a proven track record of delivering transformational business results. Prior to Acxiom, she served as Chief Revenue Officer at MySpace, where she led global sales, strategy and advertising operations. Previously, Nada served as Executive Vice President of digital advertising at MTV Networks, where she successfully led the company’s aggressive expansion into the digital advertising arena across all properties, overseeing advertising sales, strategy and operations.

Earlier in her career, Nada was senior vice president and general manager of advertising sales at Advertising.com and also held senior positions with some of the world’s most well-known brands, including AOL, Moviefone, Hearst Publications and Condé Nast. Stirratt holds a bachelor’s degree in advertising from the University of Illinois. She is based in New York City.

Sebastian Tomich was named Global Head of Advertising, Marketing Solutions at The New York Times in November 2017. In this role, he guides the strategy and revenue generation of the entire advertising team across media, partnerships and services, including T Brand Studio, ad innovation, marketing solutions and sales.

Previously, Tomich was senior vice president of Advertising and Innovation, starting in April 2015. In that role he led The Times’s branded content business and studio, overseeing Hello Society and Fake Love—the two agencies the Times Company acquired in 2016—and steered the company’s advertising innovation efforts.

Tomich was previously vice president of advertising where he led the launch and rapid expansion of T Brand Studio, The Times’s commercial content studio. He also managed sales teams across multiple categories.

Before joining The Times, Tomich was the director of East Coast advertising at Forbes Media. In this position he led the company’s largest regions advertising sales and business development efforts with their new native advertising platform, BrandVoice. During his tenure at Forbes, Mr. Tomich held a number of positions, including Regional Sales Manager and National Digital Director.

In 2017 he was named an Ad Age “40 Under 40” and in 2014 he was named to Ad Age’s “Creative 50.”

John Trimble serves as the Chief Revenue Officer of Pandora where he is responsible for all advertising revenue, strategic sales marketing and advertising operations. Pandora’s diverse revenue streams tap display, mobile, audio that reach consumers on their computers, mobile phones and consumer electronic devices. Pandora advertising offerings utilize the super-specific aspects of internet radio: a medium that enables advertisers to reach any type of consumer, anytime, anywhere – based on a multitude of quantifiable data.

Previous to Pandora, John was the EVP of sales at Glam Media where he helped guide their revenue and product expansion. Before that, John was part of the executive team tasked by News Corp. to develop and execute the creation of Fox Interactive Media where he was part of the acquisition team that brought MySpace.com and IGN.com into the Fox Interactive Media fold. He was also responsible for building out all ad marketing and operational functions while overseeing branded sales for MySpace, IGN, Fox Sports.com and American Idol.com. John has balanced his digital career with quality brands, in the role of Director of Sales for Sports Illustrated.com and with innovative starts ups in his position as Vice President of Sales with Phase2 Media.

John received his BA from St. Lawrence University. When he is not on the road looking for ad partners, he is evolving his station list to keep relevant with his family of four children. His current Pandora line-up features the Counting Crows, the Dropkick Murphy’s, Kanye West, U2 and Jack Johnson.

Julie Van Ullen is the Managing Director for US and Canada for Rakuten Marketing. In her role, Julie is responsible for overseeing the commercial organization selling and supporting the holistic suite of Rakuten Marketing’s affiliate and performance marketing solutions for Brands, Agencies, and Publishers. Additionally, Julie drives the strategy and vision related to all aspects of go-to-market for Rakuten’s Affiliate+ (data, prospecting, retargeting, social, search) offerings. Prior to joining Rakuten Marketing, Julie was the Vice President of Digital, for FreeWheel. In her role, she served as digital segment GM to oversee product vision, client acquisition, and overall go-to-market strategy for FreeWheel’s suite of video ad serving and monetization solutions. Before FreeWheel, Julie served as Vice President of Publisher Solutions at premium ad exchange, OpenX, overseeing the Sales function for the East Coast and before that as Vice President of Member Services at the IAB where she was responsible for attracting new members and developing a portfolio of opportunities and initiatives to keep current members engaged. As a part of serving IAB’s membership, Julie oversaw IAB’s elite Committees and Councils, charged with putting industry best practices and thought leadership into the marketplace. Those focal areas included Native, Programmatic, Digital Video, AdvancedTV, Digital Audio, Social Media, and Gaming.

Prior to making her transition to the digital space, Julie was an Editor at The Taunton Press in the books division of Fine Woodworking and Fine Homebuilding and still enjoys furniture-making in her free time. When not on the job, ex-opera singer Julie sings with the classic rock cover band.

Deborah Wahl was appointed General Motors Global Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) on Sept. 1, 2019. She previously served as the Global CMO of Cadillac, where she guided the directional shift of the brands’ look and feel – with bright visuals and heavy hitting anthems. She also took the brand to new places like ComplexCon, the PGA, and launched aggressive campaigns to bring customers to showrooms, like XT4 – 4TX. Rooted firmly in the school of performance marketing, she always drives her teams to use data to change how they seek and engage with consumers. Prior to joining General Motors, Deborah served as the Senior Vice President and CMO for McDonald’s from 2014 to 2017, where she played a key role in the brand’s turnaround. In addition to McDonald’s, Deborah has held a number of CMO and Vice President positions, including at PulteGroup , Chrysler and Lexus. Deborah earned a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Wellesley College and an MBA from The Wharton School. She also has a master’s degree from The Lauder Institute, University of Pennsylvania. Forbes named her to its Most Influential CMO list in 2018 and 2019, and she was recognized as one of 2019 AdWeek 50 Marketing and Tech Execs. Deborah is an active business leader who serves on the boards of Groupon, Mediaocean and The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA), as well as on the Board of Trustees of Cranbrook Educational Community.

MediaMath’s CEO Joe Zawadzki has spent his career redefining the marketing and advertising industries through software and data sciences. He has created and scaled companies with a combined $2B in market value, personally invested in a range of start-ups and is sought after for his vision on the future of technology.

Throughout his career representing marketers at top-tier agencies and Fortune 500 companies such as AOL, American Express, IAC, Verizon and Vonage, Joe has focused on the integration of media, data and data sciences, in software. That reached its peak with the founding of MediaMath in 2007, a company credited with starting the programmatic revolution with the first demand-side platform. MediaMath’s offering, centered around the TerminalOne software, powers the marketing practice of more than 3,500 brands worldwide.

Prior to MediaMath, Joe was Founder, President and Chairman of Poindexter Systems / [x+1] a pure-play marketing optimization enterprise, where he helped found and incubate Right Media, which sold to Yahoo! in 2007. He has been an active champion of digital media and the broader NYC startup ecosystem, having made investments in over 50 companies including 33Across, Accordant, AppNexus, CreditKarma, DataMinr, Electronifi, Integral Ad Science, Namely, Optoro, Sourcepoint, and Vistar Media.

Joe serves on the Executive Committee and Board of the Direct Marketing Association, an almost century-old trade association focused on serving the interests of consumers and brands through data-driven marketing, and of Hope for Vision, an organization dedicated to raising money for the development of treatments and cures for blinding diseases, with particular focus on retinal degenerative diseases.

He is a graduate of Harvard University and was a Teaching Fellow in cosmology, set theory and the history of science. He lives in New York City with his wife, Daria, and their children Dune and Jack.