Sheri Bachstein oversees the IBM Watson Advertising and Weather business, which includes her role as CEO of The Weather Company and general manager of IBM Watson Advertising. Watson Advertising is a suite of media, data, and AI technology solutions that help advertisers across the marketing lifecycle. The Weather Company, an IBM Business, offers the most accurate, actionable weather data and insights to millions of consumers, clients and marketers via digital products from The Weather Channel (weather.com) and Weather Underground (wunderground.com). Her role also includes overseeing innovative AI-driven products and services for media clients.

Sheri has played a role on many different aspects of The Weather Company digital properties since joining in 2007. Previously she was global head of the consumer business, which included all aspects of The Weather Channel and Weather Underground consumer properties, including product management and design, content development and global expansion across the organization on Weather’s owned and operated properties.

Prior to that, she led global audience growth and has also led international consumer product for weather.com and The Weather Channel apps. While leading web efforts, she moved weather.com to a fully responsive site, improved SEO efforts, optimized referral traffic, and oversaw engagement and lifestyle sponsorship efforts. As vice president of product operations, Sheri’s overseen monetization, operations and the agile team. She’s also worked as a leader for audience products, as well as in product management for weather.com and global products.

But this isn’t her first stint at The Weather Channel. She worked previously for the television network as a producer and as part of the “storm tracking” team that went into the field to cover storms (1997-2000). Before returning to Weather, Sheri served as vice president of product and content at RMS Networks in Fort Lauderdale, FL. In her career she has also worked as a producer for WGNX-TV, Atlanta’s CBS affiliate.

Sheri has won multiple media awards, including an Emmy Award for breaking news coverage of the Atlanta Centennial Park bombing and an Associated Press Award for sports reporting.

An Atlanta native, Sheri received her bachelor’s degree in journalism from Georgia
State University. She enjoys playing golf, traveling and cooking.

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.

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.

Anthony Katsur is a media technology veteran with more than twenty-five years of executive leadership and technical experience at innovative technology companies in the digital media industry.

Most recently, Anthony was SVP, Strategy, Operations and Corporate Development at Nexstar Media Group, Inc., the largest local broadcaster in the United States. Anthony was responsible for overseeing strategy, technology platforms and corporate development across Nexstar’s portfolio of digital assets.

Prior to Nexstar, Anthony served as President of Sonobi, where he implemented their product and go to market strategy around people-based marketing. Anthony recruited, and led highly effective teams while driving strategic partnerships with leading media companies, agencies and brands.

Prior to Sonobi, Anthony held global leadership roles at Rubicon Project as EVP of Business Operations and General Manager of Buyer Cloud. He also held global executive roles at MediaMath and Maxifier, where he served as CEO. Earlier in his career, he joined DoubleClick via the acquisition of NetGravity where he lead multiple engineering divisions and also fulfilled several product leadership and general management roles.

Anthony is an active participant at industry conferences, speaking about the latest ends in advertising at the National Association of Broadcasters, AdAge’s Brand Summit, Advertising Week, Broadcasting & Cable, AdMonsters and GABBCON. He has been quoted on industry trends and provided thought leadership in The Wall Street Journal, AdAge, Adweek, AdExchanger, MediaPost, Econsultancy and Digiday, among others.

Michael Lebowitz is Founder and CEO of Big Spaceship, a globally-recognized marketing agency that creates connected experiences, products and services. Since launching the agency in 2000, he has defined the strategy and vision for Big Spaceship, while working closely with the agency’s clients, including BMW, Capital One, Google Play, Google Maps, Ken Burns, Nestle-Purina, Organic Valley, Samsung, West Elm, and YouTube.

At Big Spaceship Michael has assembled “a crack team of digital inventors,” according to Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Companies” list, and has led the company to be named one of Advertising Age and Crain’s New York Business Best Places to Work for multiple years in a row. Big Spaceship’s multidisciplinary team structure and progressive culture have been profiled by Harvard Business School, with the case study now taught at business schools in 40 countries.

Speaking on creativity, innovation and the evolution of business, Michael speaks across the globe and has engaged audiences at top industry events including Cannes Festival of Creativity, SXSW, Click:NY, Forge Conference, Advertising Week, Click:London and ad:tech, as well as at business schools including NYU Stern, Long Island University and SLU’s Institute for Private Business.

He frequently chairs and sits on juries for creative awards and influential industry organizations including the IAB Agency Advisory Board and annual MIXX Awards, The One Club, Society of Digital Agencies and The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, among others. And has led the agency to win countless awards of its own including an Emmy Award nomination for the agency’s work with HBO Voyeur, Cannes Lions, Clios, Webbys, Andys, and One Show Interactive Pencils, as well as numerous IAB MIXX, Webby, Shorty, FWA, Communication Arts, W3 and Pixel Awards, among others. Michael was also named among the 2010 Creativity 50 and the 2008 OMMA Online All-Stars.

Orchid Richardson serves as the newly appointed Vice President and Managing Director, IAB Programmatic+Data Center. She is charged with driving the Center’s mission to define boundaries, reduce friction, and increase value along the data supply chain, for consumers, marketers, and the ecosystem that supports them.

Before joining the IAB Data Center, Orchid was General Manager of Publisher & Media Solutions for 33Across, Inc. where she was responsible for leading the global business strategy & development for both the company’s growth and the growth of their publisher partners. Her successes include leading the development and integration of the 33Across Real Platform with over 250 demand partner, developing a product suite that was the catalyst for the company’s pivot into programmatic and launching the Real Platform in 12 countries located in EMEA, LATAM and North America.

Orchid also served as Head of Digital Operations for Hearst Magazines Digital Media. There, she was responsible for architecting the Hearst Audience Exchange that represented the consolidation of Hearst’s audience data for multiple Hearst corporate units including Magazines, Newspaper, Entertainment, and Broadcast on to one platform for strategic company-wide initiatives.

Before Hearst, Orchid was Senior Director of Advertising Operations & Strategy for BET Networks within the Digital Group. Orchid has also served in management roles at other leading digital companies including Everyday Health, Singer Direct (an Omnicom Media Group Company) and Multimedia Solutions.


Orchid is actively involved in the advertising community, having held leadership roles in key industry trade organizations. Additionally, she is an active member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., the Metro-Manhattan (NY) Chapter of the Links, Incorporated and the Westchester Chapter of Jack & Jill of America. Orchid also serves as a board member and fundraising chair of the Ujamaa Community Development Corporation which has built over $100 million in affordable housing in Westchester County, New York.

She is an alumna of Spelman College and New York University’s Stern School of Business where she holds a degree in Business Administration & International Business.

A citizen of the world having visited over 30 countries, Orchid is based in New York where she lives with her husband, Eugene Uzamere, Esq. and their children, Owen, Addison, Ivie, Eki, and Nosa.

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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.

Alysia Borsa is President of Meredith Digital of Meredith Corporation’s National Media Group, the leading multi-platform media company focused on women – reaching 95% of all U.S. women and more than 190 million unduplicated American consumers every month. Borsa oversees all digital strategy, content, products, technology, sales, marketing, e-commerce and operations for the company’s 40+ iconic brands, including PEOPLE, Better Homes & Gardens, Allrecipes, Southern Living and REAL SIMPLE.

Since joining Meredith a decade ago, Borsa has served in several executive roles, including EVP/Chief Data Officer, Chief Business Officer and Chief Marketing Officer. Her distinguished record and forward-thinking approach have been instrumental in Meredith achieving many key milestones, including the establishment of the Meredith Data Studio. This suite of advertising solutions leverages the company’s rich, proprietary first-party data and predictive insights capabilities, helping to inform its partners’ marketing, product and business strategies. Under Borsa’s leadership, Meredith has also expanded its business partnerships with a wide array of retailers and blue chip marketers.

Prior to Meredith, Borsa held senior positions in the technology, telecommunications and consulting sectors. She worked at Nokia, Comcast and Accenture, developing and executing strategies to grow new and legacy businesses.

Borsa serves on the ANA’s Data & Technology Growth Council and the boards of directors of the Interactive Advertising Bureau; AdLedger, an industry blockchain trade group; and 4-H, a nonprofit youth development organization.

Alvin Bowles is VP, Americas at Meta where he leads partnerships with businesses of all sizes that advertise across the Americas region. His team supports all of Meta’s offerings including Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Marketplace.

Since joining Meta in 2015, Alvin has held several leadership positions across the company leading Audience Network, GMS Partnerships, Business Ecosystem Partnerships, and most recently Global Partnerships & Engineering.

Prior to Meta, Bowles was Global GM for Video at Grab Media/Rhythm One, and was accountable for all aspects of the division’s operations as well as spearheading strategic development and managing the firm’s growth. In August 2013, as CEO, Bowles led Grab Media through an acquisition to Rhythm One, a publicly traded leading technology firm, headquartered in London.

Bowles joined Grab from Viacom, where as senior vice president – brand solutions BET Networks, he led integrated sales and strategy efforts, including product integration, branded entertainment, original digital content, event execution and experiential marketing. He created a number of television and online properties on behalf of advertisers, which received a number of industry awards.

Before joining Viacom, Bowles worked at AOL as vice president and publisher of AOL Black Voices as a key member of the strategy sales team 2006-2007. In this role he oversaw sales and sales development for AOL multicultural division as the brand experienced tremendous growth during this period.
From 2004-2006, Bowles worked at Time Warner as the vice president of the global asset media group developing cross-functional sales and marketing platforms for various divisions across Time Warner’s portfolio. Prior to Time Warner, he served as Sony Music’s director of business development and created strategic traditional and digital partnerships with brands on behalf of the label group. He began his career at JP Morgan where he spent three years as a corporate financial analyst, eventually transitioning into media.

Bowles earned his MBA from Harvard University Graduate School of Business and he received his undergraduate degree in business administration from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Ryman Hospitality Properties, a publicly traded REIT, headquartered in Nashville, TN. He also serves as an advisory council member for a number of civic-minded ventures and is an active alumnus for both Michigan and Harvard.

Alvin Bowles resides in New Rochelle, NY with his wife, Terri Prettyman Bowles and two daughters.

Pooja Midha is President of true[X], the most effective engagement advertising platform for on-demand, interactive media, leading the company’s daily operations and long-term strategy. As President, her mission is to grow true[X]’s roster of advertiser and premium publisher partnerships; expand its industry-leading ad products to create value for consumers, advertisers, and media companies; and further true[X]’s active role as an advocate for high-quality, measurable advertising across platforms.

Pooja most recently spent more than five years as senior vice president of digital ad sales and operations for the ABC Television Network, where she oversaw sales, strategy, and revenue operations for all of ABC’s digital properties — the ABC app, abc.com, abcnews.com, GMA on Yahoo, ABC on Hulu, Oscars digital, all ABC dynamically ad-served set top box video on demand, and all social and new media platforms. Pooja previously had worked for ten years at Viacom Media Networks, including serving as senior vice president of digital ad sales for the Music and Entertainment Group.

Pooja currently serves as vice chair of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Video Board, co-chair of the IAB Long Form Video Committee, and is a member of the IAB CRO Council. Pooja also serves as a member of the Upstream Seller Forum Advisory Board. She holds a B.A. from Lehigh University and an MBA from Columbia Business School. She has also completed the National Association of Multi-Ethnicity in Communications (NAMIC) Executive Leadership Development Program from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management.

Pooja currently resides in New York City with her husband, Allan Beaufour.

Eric joined Thomson Reuters as Head of Revenue in April of 2020. In this role, Eric has oversight of all revenue lines and is responsible for accelerating growth across the Agency and Consumer businesses. He joined Reuters from AccuWeather, where he was Chief Business Officer, overseeing all global revenue-generating products, services, marketing and business development.

As the Head of Revenue for Reuters, Eric will lead our sales and customer success teams globally while establishing a holistic revenue growth strategy involving the targeting of new market segments, diversifying customers and categories, and identifying cross-selling opportunities across the wider portfolio. 

Eric is an exceptional sales executive with an impressive track record in building new revenue streams, attracting new customers and scaling high growth media businesses. He reports into the President of Reuters and sits on the Reuters Executive Committee.

Jerry Dischler is a Vice President and General Manager at Google, and oversees Google’s Advertising products including search, display, shopping, travel and video advertising, as well as analytics.

A 10+ year Ads veteran, Jerry led Google to move beyond plain text ads to deeper experiences, including the development of Ad Sitelinks and Product Listing Ads. Through various leadership roles on the team, he’s played an important role in defining the future of advertising at Google including leading the transition from desktop to mobile advertising, accelerating direct response advertising on YouTube, and developing new ad products for SMBs.

Prior to his current role, Jerry led the product and engineering teams for ads on Google’s owned and operated properties (Search, YouTube, Maps, Gmail, Discover), buying platforms (Google Ads, Search Ads 360, Display & Video 360), and Google’s home-grown sales and support platform. Earlier in his career at Google, Jerry led Google’s commerce products, including Google Checkout (now Google Pay) and Google Product Search (now Google Shopping).

Before Google, Jerry served as the Director of Engineering at Avolent where he was instrumental in developing the company’s award-winning billing and payment products. He also worked in engineering and leadership roles at Hyperion, Sana Security, and Accenture, where his work focused on enterprise billing, customer care, and security software.

Jerry earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago and his MBA from The Wharton School of Business.

Jerry Dischler is a Vice President and General Manager at Google, and oversees Google’s Advertising products including search, display, shopping, travel and video advertising, as well as analytics.

A 10+ year Ads veteran, Jerry led Google to move beyond plain text ads to deeper experiences, including the development of Ad Sitelinks and Product Listing Ads. Through various leadership roles on the team, he’s played an important role in defining the future of advertising at Google including leading the transition from desktop to mobile advertising, accelerating direct response advertising on YouTube, and developing new ad products for SMBs.

Prior to his current role, Jerry led the product and engineering teams for ads on Google’s owned and operated properties (Search, YouTube, Maps, Gmail, Discover), buying platforms (Google Ads, Search Ads 360, Display & Video 360), and Google’s home-grown sales and support platform. Earlier in his career at Google, Jerry led Google’s commerce products, including Google Checkout (now Google Pay) and Google Product Search (now Google Shopping).

Before Google, Jerry served as the Director of Engineering at Avolent where he was instrumental in developing the company’s award-winning billing and payment products. He also worked in engineering and leadership roles at Hyperion, Sana Security, and Accenture, where his work focused on enterprise billing, customer care, and security software.

Jerry earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago and his MBA from The Wharton School of Business.

John Halley is President of Paramount Advertising, overseeing the company’s domestic multiplatform sales efforts across its leading portfolio of broadcast, cable, digital and streaming assets spanning CBS, BET, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, Paramount+ and Pluto TV, among others. Previously, Halley served as Chief Operating Officer of Advertising Revenue for Paramount, where he oversaw commercial and business operations for the advertising team as well as Paramount’s advertising product suite and go-to-market strategy across its digital, social, and advanced advertising offerings.

An advocate for innovation and progress across the industry, Halley is the Chairman of OpenAP, an advanced activation platform for the convergent video marketplace enabling new currencies, and also serves on the Board of Directors of Blockgraph, the IAB and the VAB.

Halley serves as Chairman of the New York Chapter of the March of Dimes, and is on the Board of Directors of Literacy Inc., a New York-based childhood literacy organization. He holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an Economics degree from Santa Clara University.

Krishan Bhatia serves as President & Chief Business Officer for NBCUniversal’s Advertising Sales division, reporting to Linda Yaccarino, Chairman, Global Advertising & Partnerships. Bhatia, with the help of his 500-person team, oversees Digital & Advanced Advertising Sales as well as the division’s One Platform Strategy, Partnerships, Product, Technology, Measurement and Operations functions — spanning a portfolio of TV, streaming and digital assets that reaches 230 Million viewers every month, including the company’s ad-supported streaming platform Peacock.

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

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

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

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

Bhatia serves as chairman of the IAB and a board member of OpenAP.

Tom Fochetta is a highly experienced business leader and media veteran with more than 20 years of digital advertising experience. He currently serves as Senior 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.

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.

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.

Sheryl Goldstein is the Executive Vice President, Chief Industry Growth Officer at the IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau). In her role, she oversees engaging the IAB’s 650+ members across all of the IAB’s vast initiatives, activities and thought leadership programs. Under Sheryl’s watch are the Member Engagement, Centers of Excellence, Research and L&D teams. She also spearheads talent development, diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and runs the IAB CRO Council.

Sheryl Goldstein is a “net vet” with over 20 years of driving meaningful revenue growth through consultative selling in the dynamic digital landscape (Yahoo, AOL, About.com). She is adept at building successful teams, developing go-to-market strategies and gaining consensus across key stakeholders. Her background includes a wide variety of digital media platforms and technologies and numerous leadership roles.

In addition to her experience as a sales leader, Sheryl brings years of talent development and training to her role and is committed to making the digital media landscape a great industry for diverse talent to thrive and have a long and exciting career.

Sheryl is a current board member for 212NYC, Makers and was a past Board member of She Runs It. She serves on the Rutgers Business School Advisory Board for Marketing and is helping RBS craft a digital marketing graduate program. In addition, she has served on Boards and Committees for the NY Ad Club, Women in Communications, Inc. and the IAB and is a member of Chief. She is an award-winning sales leader (Yahoo Accelerator Award, AOL Best Media Partner presented by Verizon, AOL Presidents Club, AWNY Crystal Award Winner).

Sheryl is a graduate of Syracuse University Newhouse School and lives in New Jersey with her partner Cindy and dogs Pancho and Camden. On the weekends, you can catch her on the pickleball court or riding around the Jersey Shore on her new electric bike. Her daughter Sarah-Jaana lives in the Boston area with her husband Michael.

Michael Hahn is Executive Vice President & General Counsel at IAB and IAB Tech Lab. Michael has responsibility for all legal matters, including the direction of legal strategy, privacy compliance, antitrust compliance, intellectual property rights issues, and general corporate matters. Michael is also responsible for serving as an advocate for the digital advertising industry on common legal issues affecting member companies.

Michael joined IAB and IAB Tech Lab from Lowenstein Sandler LLP where he served as Vice Chair of the firm’s Antitrust Practice Group. In that role, he provided clients with strategic counsel around competition, distribution and governance issues. In the area of litigation, Michael’s matters have included multiparty class action antitrust defense representation.

Michael served previously as Co-Chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association Antitrust Law Committee. He also previously served on the Editorial Advisory Board of Competition Law 360 and the Advisory Board of the American Bar Association Antitrust Section’s Civil Torts & RICO Committee. Michael frequently publishes on a range of legal and policy issues.

Michael earned his B.A. in History and Political Science from Rutgers University, M.P.P. from Georgetown University and J.D. for Georgetown University Law Center.

Carryl Pierre-Drews is EVP, Chief Marketing Officer at the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) where she is responsible for providing executive leadership and management of the IAB marketing and communications organization and activities to forward the IAB’s position as a digital, marketing, and media industry thought leader and agenda-setter. Carryl has stewardship of the IAB Brand inclusive of Events, Marketing, PR, Digital, Social, Mobile, Video, and Audio channels with the goal of elevating IAB’s profile with media and tech CEOs, CMOs, and the marketing and advertising industry at large.

Previously, Carryl held the title of Vice President of Marketing at Fullscreen, a next-gen social marketing agency, where she built and led the agency’s brand marketing, PR, digital/social channels, influencer engagements, and global industry activations featuring marketers from American Eagle, AT&T, HP, Marriott, Mars, Mattel, Visa and more. Carryl was instrumental in catalyzing key strategic decisions that drove business growth, elevated visibility, and increased shareholder value positioning Fullscreen for the AT&T acquisition in 2018 and eventual WarnerMedia integration in 2019. Prior to Fullscreen, Carryl was Senior Vice President of Strategic Marketing at USA Network, a division of NBCUniversal, where she led the integrated marketing, communications strategy, and client experiences teams.

Carryl serves as Chair of the Marketing & Communications Committee of Pet Partners Board of Directors, where she helps devise strategies to further communicate and expand the vital role of therapy animals in our lives. As a therapy animal team with her dog Mika, Carryl has seen firsthand the effect therapy animals have on overall health and well-being. Carryl is also passionate about creating a culture of inclusion and diversity in the advertising, marketing, and media industry and has been an active member of She Runs It, an organization invested in women’s achievement, for 19 years, with six spent on the Board (2012-2018). She was honored twice by CableFax Magazine as one of the most influential minorities in cable — in 2013 “The Leaders” and in 2012 “The Influentials.” In 2019 Carryl was nominated and became a founding member of Chief, a private network focused on connecting and supporting women leaders.

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

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

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

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

Rajeev 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. 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 serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the IAB. 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. 

Before joining the IAB, Piya has held a slew of positions. Most recently she was a management consultant at KPMG focusing on strategy and operations for marketing organizations. Prior to KPMG, she focused on brand media and advertising strategy at Horizon Media for clients in retail and CPG, and she served as a Research Analyst and on-air reporter at CNBC in Mumbai, India. Piya grew up in Princeton, New Jersey and has been a New Yorker for over twelve years. She moved to Miami in August of last year, all to swing right back to a city she calls home. Piya has her M.A. in political science from Bryn Mawr College and an MBA from University of Chicago Booth School of Business. In her free time, she is traveling, exploring new restaurants, and devoting time to yoga and meditation.

Elizabeth is a transformational, strategic leader with over 25 years of experience in media, marketing and technology, who has driven record growth and profitability during her tenure at Yahoo. As Chief Revenue Officer, Elizabeth oversees $5 billion in revenue and a team of more than 2,300 people around the world, she has championed client-first strategies to create holistic solutions that drive performance.

Elizabeth is a tireless advocate for Diversity, Equality & Inclusion, spearheading several of Yahoo’s industry-recognized initiatives for racial equality, and is passionate about elevating those issues within her team and her clients. Among her many business successes, she counts her legacy of supporting and championing women in the workplace her greatest accomplishment.

Prior to joining Yahoo, Elizabeth held key roles at Snap, Inc., including Head of Global Strategic Partnerships and Head of East Coast Ad Sales. Before Snap, Elizabeth served as the EVP of Ad Sales Strategy at Viacom. Throughout her career, Elizabeth has also held leadership positions at MAGNA Global, 20th Television (a division of 20th Century Fox), Starcom Worldwide, Universal Television and Fox, after starting her career at CBS.

She serves as a member of the Board of The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition; on the Mobile Marketing Association Global Board of Directors (formerly North American Board); the Ad Council Board of Directors; the Female Quotient Advisory Board; as a Council Member of Digital Ascendant; and on the IAB CRO Council.

Elizabeth is a graduate of Harvard University, with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology.

Pam is a 30+ year veteran of the media and marketing industry who is a proven media strategist across digital, programmatic, and traditional platforms. Known for innovative approaches to media and marketing challenges that turn the complex media eco system into understandable ideas for both the C-Suite and day-to-day tacticians. Pam sees the world as a white board – empty, boundless space to create, transform and innovate for growth; to re-imagine how media and marketing can work to grow brands and build companies. Pam believes winning at the intersection of data, content, marketplace, and technology means refusing to let the status quo be good enough and being humble enough to know true transformation takes collaboration, iteration, willpower, and trust.

Pam spent her first 25 years on the agency side at Publicis Media leading clients such as Procter & Gamble, Microsoft, Activision, Yahoo and others. In addition to client leadership Pam built new practices for the agency including Advanced TV and Experience Design. To broaden her experience, Pam also spent 3 years leading Media for Starcom Mediavest Group in Russia when that market first opened to media in the mid-1990s. This taught Pam that anything is possible to create in the marketplace with some ingenuity, marketplace knowledge, and a relentless push creates win – win – win experiences for consumers, marketers and publishers. Following her work on the agency side, Pam spent five years consulting for the media and technology companies (NBCU, Fox, Viacom, Double Verify) helping them design custom programs and market their digital assets for growth. For the past fifteen months, Pam has been at Amobee, an Ad Tech firm, leading their marketing and sales strategy efforts to bring new identity, performance and new targeting techniques to the DSP and cross channel planning marketplace.

Pam lives in Hastings on Hudson, NY with her two sons.

Lisa Ryan Howard is executive vice president, global chief revenue officer of Hearst Magazines, one of the world’s largest publishers of monthly magazines, with nearly 260 international magazine editions and more than 25 brands in the U.S. In her role, Ms. Howard is responsible for both U.S. advertising and marketing and Hearst Global Solutions, the company’s international commercial division that creates cross-market solutions for brands.

Ms. Howard joined Hearst Magazines in 2022 from The New York Times, where she was global head of advertising and marketing solutions, leading all aspects of The Times’s ad business. She joined The New York Times in 2016 as senior vice president of advertising and was promoted to senior vice president, general manager of media, a position she held for four years.

Prior to that, Ms. Howard served in business and revenue leadership roles at Billboard, Yahoo and WebMD. She also spent 14 years at Condé Nast, where she held a variety of senior roles, including senior vice president, chief revenue officer of the Fairchild Fashion Group (WWD, WWD.com), publisher of Style.com and vice president of digital for Condé Nast Media Group.

Ms. Howard is a graduate of University of Georgia. She currently resides in New York City.

Scott Howe is the Chief Executive Officer of LiveRamp (NYSE: RAMP), the leading data connectivity platform for the safe and effective use of data. Powered by core identity capabilities and an unparalleled network, LiveRamp enables companies and their partners to better connect, control, and activate data to transform customer experiences and generate more valuable business outcomes.

From 2011 to Sept. 2018, Howe served as CEO and president of LiveRamp’s former parent company, Acxiom—a technology and services company dedicated to providing the data foundation for the world’s best marketers. In 2014, Fast Company named Howe one of the World’s Most Creative People. Before taking the reins at Acxiom in 2011, Howe held executive roles at Microsoft and aQuantive, where his teams built the world’s largest digital agency (Avenue A|Razorfish); pioneered people-based media buying (DRIVE Performance Media, aka the Microsoft Media Network); and developed the systems utilized for ad serving and attribution (Atlas International). He began his career at The Boston Consulting Group and Kidder, Peabody & Company, Inc.

Howe is currently a board member of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB).

Jeanie Carstensen is the Senior Vice President, Finance and Operations of Finance and Operations. She joined the IAB in October 2015 with 20+ years experience in the media and entertainment industries. Most recently she was with Comcast/NBCUniversal as a strategic finance and administration leader supporting the Cable Ad Sales Division. Prior to that she held finance leadership roles at Viacom/MTV Networks in New York and MTV Europe in London, England.

Jeanie holds a BA in Finance from Iona College, is an avid traveler, and volunteers with Monday Night Hospitality serving restaurant style meals to those in need.

Jia Hyun is a global marketing and digital strategy executive with a 20+ year record of driving marketing innovation to generate double-digit revenue growth for firms, including LinkedIn, GE Capital, Citigroup, American Express, and MasterCard International. She is a strategic leader who’s created and led digital transformation initiatives, built ecommerce capabilities, and orchestrated integrated marketing teams, programs, and data strategies across multinational marketing organizations.

As Vice President, Strategic Accounts for LinkedIn, Jia currently leads the Global Sales and Client services teams across LinkedIn Marketing Solutions’ largest, most strategic relationships. Jia holds a Master of Business Administration with a concentration in Marketing and Information Systems from New York University. She lives in New York with her husband, 2 boys, and a Jack Russell. She is an enthusiastic amateur pickle artisan and prolific home cook who balances her love of eating with outdoor adventure, singing, and dancing.

Rick has significant experience across all sides of the marketing ecosystem including brand management, agency, media, digital, ad tech, data, analytics, and attribution. He started his career working on blue chip brands for several major NY ad agencies and then transitioned to the brand side at L’Oreal. After a successful stint launching and managing haircare brands, Rick took on a role running sales for Next Generation Radio, an industry association charged with generating new on-air and digital revenue. In nine years, NGR generated over $125M in new sales to the industry. After leaving NGR, Rick ran the NY Sales office for Alloy, helping to launch the largest teen ad network. Rick has also run sales teams at Music Mogul (a music start-up), Interactive One (a multi-cultural publisher), Specific Media/Viant (the largest ad network) and inPowered (a native platform). Most recently, Rick has been with Conversant, the identity platform and digital arm of Epsilon. In this role, Rick has been the lead revenue generator for Conversant’s emerging Restaurant segment.

Craig Coleman joins IAB with over 15 years of expertise developing marketing programs, messaging, and positioning strategies for IAB member brands such as USA TODAY, NBCUniversal, and MTV. He is excited to raise the profile of the IAB brand and positioning IAB as the industry thought leader in media and marketing.

Most recently, Coleman was VP, Client Solutions and Product Marketing for Gannett Digital and USA TODAY where he led digital product marketing and client solutions. Under his leadership, USA TODAY launched the award winning Gravity unit and introduced digital partnerships in virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR).

In previous roles, Coleman served as Vice President, Marketing for Screenvision where he launched a new branded content offering combining media, movie studio and partner assets. While at NBCUniversal, he was brand manager of the lifestyle brands Green is Universal, Healthy at NBCU and Hispanics at NBCU and oversaw the development and implementation of integrated ad sales marketing programs for advertisers across NBCUniversal’s portfolio including the first-ever movie studio program with Sony. Prior to joining NBCUniversal in 2010, Coleman directed all marketing and communications for the fastest growing kid’s network, Nicktoons Network. Coleman also co-produced the Nicktoons Network Animation Festival driving festival submissions and partnerships with LEGO, Addicting Games and mtvU making it the largest animation festival in North America.

Coleman earned a Bachelor’s degree from University of Connecticut, and currently resides in CT with his wife, Evan, and daughter, Bennett.

Shailley brings several years of product management experience in Digital advertising at Yahoo and Say Media building products for Mobile advertising, Ad Operations, Targeting solutions and integrating data platforms. Shailley has supported and worked with multiple IAB initiatives in the past namely MRAID and Mobile Rising Stars specifications. At Yahoo, he worked on creating innovative ad experiences for mobile and tablet platforms as well as native formats. Shailley has a diverse background as a product leader, consultant and entrepreneur building and sustaining high performing teams at both large organizations as well as venture funded startups like Paypal, Yahoo, Say Media, Serus, Accenture, PwC. By way of qualifications, Shailley has an MBA and Chemical engineering degree.

Jack joins the IAB with over 20 years of experience at platforms, brands, and agencies leading global research and insights initiatives that foster smarter business decisions. An enthusiastic data-driven storyteller, he’s passionate about exploring the boundaries of research to elevate industry intelligence and strives to inspire action through insights.

Prior to joining the IAB Jack led and scaled global research, insights, and measurement teams at rapidly emerging digital media platforms including Microsoft, EA, LinkedIn, and Spotify. Most recently Jack was at Reddit, where he established the Marketing Sciences organization responsible for advancing ad measurement capabilities and partnerships, producing research amplifying industry awareness and understanding of online communities, and uncovering contextual insights and identifying audience trends that tell the world about their world.

Jack and his teams have accepted awards from industry bodies such as the Advertising Research Foundation and the Insights Association, and he’s had the pleasure of sharing research findings in publications and on industry stages around the globe. He attended Washington University in St. Louis, earning degrees from the Olin School of Business and the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.

Chris Bruderle brings over 25 years of experience in Data/Web Analytics and Media Market Research at premium Digital and Muti-Platform web publishers including The Daily Beast, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Conde Nast Publications and This Old House Ventures.

Before working at IAB where he leads research-based thought leadership initiatives, Chris was most recently VP, Analytics & Research at The Daily Beast where he spent nearly 7 years and was responsible for the tracking, analysis and reporting of The Daily Beast’s O&O site and off-platform data/analytics for Senior/Corporate Management, Editorial, Advertising Sales, Product/Engineering, Audience/Business Development, Social Media and PR. He established the company-wide Editorial Analytics and Advertising Sales data and research stacks which included, among others, Google Analytics, Parse.ly, Krux DMP, Optimizely, comScore, Kantar, Samba, Newswhip, Crowd Tangle, Buzzsumo, and CrazyEgg.

Prior to The Daily Beast, Chris spent 5 years as Associate and Acting Director at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia where he directed the correspondence and development of all research-based strategies supporting the Advertising Sales and Marketing staffs of each of the MSLO media brands and platforms across digital, mobile/tablet, TV, print and radio. Chris has also held marketing and market research positions at Conde Nast and Time Inc.

Chris started his career at BBDO as an Assistant Media Planner where he most notably completed the “Media Training Program”.

Jeffrey Bustos is Vice President of Measurement, Addressability & Data at IAB — in partnership with Angelina Eng — where he focuses on data, privacy, and measurement. Previously, Jeffrey was at GroupM on the Data, Audience & Platform Strategy team working on audience science, data enablement, and measurement, while also developing sustainable and future proofing solutions. Jeffrey has a strong background in developing strategies and outlining processes for adoption with a focus on taxonomy, audience architecture and measurement. As part of the DAP team at GroupM, Jeffrey was a leader in developing strategic plans and measurement frameworks in preparation for cookie deprecation. In addition, he led the Cookieless Future Taskforce, participated in Global Identity panels, and developed training plans for cross-agency learning.

A seasoned executive with 24+ years of digital media, marketing and operations experience, Angelina Eng has focused her career on supporting agencies and brands to define, build and manage digital media and marketing efforts while enabling teams to operationally work efficiently and effectively with both internal and external partners and platforms. She’s been responsible for the development and management of internal systems and workflow, establishment of deliverable standards, designing ad trafficking and tracking guidelines, implementation of emerging platforms, as well as establishing best practices at companies such as Morgan Stanley, Merkle, Dentsu Aegis and Publicis Modem.

Over the years, She has been involved with multiple organizations and events to help define, establish and advocate some of the industry standards that we see in today’s digital media ecosystem (such as ad verification/brand safety, ad fraud, viewability and programmatic, social, etc)

Angelina has been awarded the AdMonsters 2018 Power List, IAB Data Rockstar 2016 and AdMonsters Digital Media Leadership Award 2016.

Andrew Heyman has over a decade of experience in event content and programming, starting his professional career at Rodgers & Hammerstein before moving into the comic con world. He also led programming for Augmented World Expo (AWE), the largest and longest-running event series for the augmented and virtual reality industries. He most recently worked in industry event programming at The Paley Center for Media, where he curated and produced agendas, panels and talks with C-suite executives like Mattel CEO Ynon Kreiz and Xbox chief Phil Spencer, dignitaries and federal officials including Henry Kissinger and FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, as well as leaders from companies such as Disney, Apple, Marvel Studios, TikTok, Nielsen, and many more.

A longtime resident of NYC who recently relocated back to his home state of New Jersey (albeit now in Hoboken), Andrew is a graduate of Princeton University and holds an MFA in songwriting/musical theatre writing from the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. While he has released multiple albums of his own songs and has had musicals produced off- and off-off Broadway, Andrew spends most of his time these days with his wife, their four-month-old son Elliot and their cavapoo Sadie, honing his pop culture knowledge with everything from Broadway to Bravo.

Eric John leads IAB’s Media Center, a dedicated unit within the IAB whose mission is to simplify the video supply chain, providing best practices and education for brands, agencies, and media companies to drive continued growth through the evolving convergence of television and digital video. Eric drives the center’s efforts in the development of market-making research, industry standards and best practices and buyer/seller terms and conditions. Before joining the IAB, Eric led digital services and strategy at the Alliance for Audited Media and the MPA. Eric also served as global director of publisher 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, Loreal and Nikon. Eric began his career in internet advertising at DoubleClick (Google) where he served in business and product development within the DART for Publishers (DFP) and DART for Advertisers (DFA) business units where he launched the industry’s first post-click “Spotlight” 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. Read articles by Eric John.

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Over the course of her 15 year career, Rachel has had the honor of working at some of the most respected companies in the industry. Getting her start at Edelman PR, she focused primarily on forging and executing media and content partnerships with broadcast and digital properties on behalf of clients. Her subsequent roles supporting cable ad sales at NBCUniversal and the CNÉ sales team at Condé Nast fully immersed her in the world of digital media and sales marketing and set her up for success when she joined Vevo to lead their Ad Sales Marketing team. During her five years with the music video platform, Rachel was a respected leader within the sales organization and focused her efforts on innovating strategic solutions for client partners and crafting complex go-to-market products and narratives in support of Vevo’s global salesforce.

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.

Alex joined Tech Lab in early 2020 after 7 years at Xandr (formerly AppNexus) where he lead multiple product and engineering groups to deliver a broad range of successful ad tech products. Alex stood up Xandr’s Privacy product and engineering capability in 2018 and since realized digital privacy is the area of advertising where he can make the most impact to the industry and consumers. Alex believes Tech Lab–with its global reach, technology focus, diverse membership and trade group relationships–is uniquely positioned as a place where he can leave a positive lasting mark on privacy.

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Brendan is IAB’s Vice President of Policy Communications, helping to create greater awareness among policy makers and the press of digital advertising’s importance to technological and economic progress, creativity, and the ad-supported internet.

He works closely with IAB’s legal and public policy experts, as well as more than 700 IAB members, to enhance public understanding of digital marketing and advertising’s value to small businesses and their customers, and the industry’s innovations to online commerce, personal data protection and privacy, and more.

Prior to joining IAB, Brendan directed policy communications for members of Congress and for a major trade association. A graduate of Northwestern University, he received his Master’s Degree from University of Southern California and worked as a reporter and producer in the news and entertainment industries in New York and Los Angeles.

Rich brings a wealth of media experience across TV, CTV, Programmatic, Digital, Social and Tech both nationally and globally. He started his career working in digital at ESPN/ABCNews Internet ventures and has held management roles at Alloy Media & Marketing and IGA Worldwide where he led international sales for dynamic and static in game advertising solutions for several of the world’s largest video game publishers. After leaving IGA Worldwide, Rich joined Fandom where he launched the New York, Chicago, and UK offices laying the foundation for social gaming, entertainment and lifestyle community advertising. Rich has also held senior roles at Dashbid (programmatic video), Imgur and Simulmedia TV+. He lives in Brooklyn with his two sons.

Erick currently serves as Legislative Director and Senior Counsel to Congressman Steve Chabot (OH). In addition to handling the judiciary portfolio, Erick focuses on financial services, tax, labor, and technology issues. Erick formerly served as Legislative Counsel to Congresswoman Emerson (MO) and as an aide to Senator Jim Talent (MO) and at the U.S. Department of Justice in the Office of the Solicitor General.

While completing his law degree, Erick served on the Wiley Rutledge Moot Court Board and as Senior Editor of the Washington University Jurisprudence Review. He appeared on various media outlets to discuss the 2008 Presidential election.

Erick received his Juris Doctor from Washington University in St. Louis, School of Law and his Bachelor of Science Degree from Vanderbilt University in Political Science and Human and Organizational Development with a concentration on Public Policy. While studying at Vanderbilt, Erick served on the Honor Council and completed internships with the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate, the British House of Commons, and at the White House.

Erick is originally from Cape Girardeau, Missouri and he and his wife, Bridgette currently reside in Washington D.C with their miniature goldendoodle, Vandy.

Nicole joins the IAB as Senior Manager in the Member Services department. In this role she strategically engages and recruits IAB membership through the creation of our many offerings and events. Nicole draws from her wealth of industry experience both on the buy side, having worked for Saatchi and Saatchi, and on the sell side at Oddcast and Westwood One. Her natural curiosity and desire to learn the industry also landed her experience client side, working as a Marketing Manager for Emblem Health. Nicole graduated from Fordham University with a BA in Communications & Media Studies, as well as a business degree. Her latest curiosity is travel, and when not working she tries to discover as many new places as possible.

Kathleen has been the Event Director at IAB since 2018. In this role, she and the events team are responsible for all the behind-the-scenes magic that bring an event to life. Prior to joining IAB, Kathleen worked for over 10 years in the meeting and events industry. Most recently as the Senior Manager, Special Event for the David Lynch Foundation and the Event Director at IQPC, a leading conference company.

In her spare time, she loves to travel, explore the NYC/Hoboken restaurant scene, go on brewery tours, binge watch Law & Order, and spend time with her boyfriend and nieces.

Kathleen received her Bachelors of Science from James Madison University and currently resides in Hoboken, NJ.

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Mayank is a visionary technologist, bringing several years of thoughtful leadership in all stages of technology design, development, execution in support of a product vision and road-map with experience from large corporations to early startups adept in conceiving, defining, developing, & launching Web & mobile applications.

He has designed system software, Middleware, eCommerce and Mobile platform/apps for Fortune 50 corporations to startups for companies like IBM, Appssavvy,Kickapps and Flurry.

With certifications like PMI, Java/J2EE, Business Rules and also being speaker at developer conferences, he loves learning new technology and designing platforms.

With several mobile apps in app store and SDK’s running on thousand of devices, he loves to spend time in building mobile and wearable apps or playing guitar.

Joe Pilla joined IAB in Summer of 2018 as Director, Data & Automation within the IAB Programmatic+Data Center. In his role, Joe works closely with Orchid Richardson, VP, Managing Director on a variety of projects related to data transparency, attribution modeling and the changing consumer experience.

Joe brings a wealth of diverse media experience to IAB from his accomplished career in advertising research and consumer insights. Previously, Joe was Vice President, Social Insights at Zenith Media where he led the Social Intelligence practice providing clients with data analysis related to their brand environment, online conversation and campaign performance. Joe spearheaded several agency thought leadership initiatives covering a wide spectrum of topics including brand integrations, the rise of Influencer Marketing, shifts in consumer behavior, and the relationship between televised tent pole events and Social Media channels.

Prior to Zenith, Joe was the Associate Director of Media & Consumer Insights at Mindshare where he led the adoption of The Loop, the agency’s global operating system linking real-time multimedia insights to real-time actions. Naturally curious, Joe excelled at developing the annual US Consumer Trends presenting the agency perspective to clients nationwide. Before making a move to the agency world, Joe honed his storytelling expertise at Condè Nast, Meredith Corporation and Reader’s Digest where he mastered syndicated research bringing the magazine consumer to life.

Joe earned a Bachelor’s of Science in Marketing from Rutgers University. He lives in Long Island City with his husband Kevin Davis, AIA. Joe sits on the board of SuperCommunityLIC, a local organization celebrating the local community while finding ways to give back. In his spare time, Joe produces his YouTube Channel “Pop Culture Monger” dedicated to the latest entertainment news with the tagline nonsense to follow.

Soizic Sacrez is the Vice President of Marketing for IAB, providing leadership and management of the IAB marketing team and activities to forward the organization’s position as a digital, marketing, and media industry thought leader and agenda-setter. She oversees strategic marketing, public relations, event marketing, and executive communications. She joined IAB in 2015 and has worked with all business units and IAB Centers of Excellence in both New York City and San Francisco. She brings over 20 years of digital marketing, advertising, and media experience as well as expertise in Hispanic, multicultural, and global marketing.

Prior to joining IAB, Soizic led the digital marketing initiatives at several member publisher companies, including Terra (part of Telefónica), impreMedia Digital, and La Opinión, the leading Spanish-language newspaper in Los Angeles. She also worked for Xerox in France, Pacific Consulting Firm in Japan, and WHDH TV (7 News / NBC affiliate) in Boston.

Trilingual in English, French, and Spanish (with some Brazilian Portuguese or “Portuñol” knowledge), she also speaks some Japanese. Soizic was born and raised in France and has lived in London, Strasbourg, Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco. She is a student pilot and loves flying and traveling around the world. She now lives in Brooklyn with her son and her life partner.

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Jill Wittkopp is Senior Director of Management at the IAB Tech Lab, a global consortium for technical standards in the digital advertising industry. Prior to joining the IAB Tech Lab, Jill worked on the buy side of programmatic advertising with companies like MyBuys, Magnetic and Rakuten. She has a B.A. in English from the University of Michigan, Dearborn and lives in San Francisco, California.

Jarrett Wold comes to the IAB Tech Lab with a diverse background in technology leading teams focused on digital applications. His most recent role was Director of Technology and Platforms at Ad-ID, where he was overseeing Ad-ID’s technology endeavors and focusing on industry standards for the advertising ecosystem. His former role as Director of Technology includes Ad-ID, Rodale, Inc. and HealthiNation. He also worked at AOL on AOL Video, AOL Search, and Moviefone. He graduated from Syracuse University and is a huge Orange fan!

Rowena brings years of experience in product development of ad-supported casual games on mobile and web. Most recently, she led product at Jump Ramp Games where she was responsible for the strategic direction and vision of the consumer-facing mobile apps. This included the development and launch of several games, supporting internal tools, and ad monetization services. In addition to product leadership, Rowena also has a background in digital marketing. In her spare time, Rowena enjoys trying out new recipes and traveling.

Virginia Poe is a native of Orlando, Florida. She earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Florida in Geography and her master’s degree from the American University of Paris in Global Communications. Directly after receiving her undergraduate degree she served as a Legislative Aide for Florida State Senator Eleanor Sobel before joining the Alan Grayson for Congress campaign as his Finance Director in 2012. She then went on to serve as Senator Mary Landrieu’s Deputy Finance Director in 2014 and the Finance Director on her father, Bob Poe’s, congressional campaign in 2016. Prior to joining IAB she served for 5 years as a Legislative Assistant in Congressman Charlie Crist’s D.C. office where she managed a portfolio that included technology, telecommunications, privacy, intellectual property, Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development Appropriations, Labor, Health, and Human Services Appropriations, and Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations. She currently resides on Capitol Hill with her pet fish, Megan Thee Stallion.

Matt Shapo is a product development and digital strategy leader who brings more than 20 years of experience overseeing the creation and multi-platform delivery of online content and internet advertising to his role as the Director of Digital Audio and Video at the IAB.

Before IAB, Matt served as VP of Digital Content for the All Access Music Group, a music marketing company and audio industry news publisher where he planned and led advertising, editorial, and other growth initiatives for AllAccess.com, a B2B website that delivers breaking news, data, and commentary to an audience of professional audio content creators, salespeople, and decisionmakers.

Over the course of his career, Matt has directed and measured the effectiveness of integrated advertising and email marketing campaigns for multiple leading record labels and radio companies. He has also led the ideation, development, launch, and continuous iteration of profitable digital media products, including an industry leading digital audio distribution platform that delivers new music and related content to a nationwide user base of radio stations, streaming services, tv networks, podcasters, and others.

Matt holds a B.A. in Political Science and International Relations from Tufts University and an M.F.A. in Radio, TV, and Film Production from Florida State University, and he is a devoted fan of his hometown Miami Dolphins. He lives with his wife, Jennifer, and their wonderful son Evan, in Randolph, NJ where he is an enthusiastic hiker and a proud member of the Randolph High School Marching Rams parents’ road crew.

Colleen Shields joined the IAB in 2012, and supports the IAB Tech Lab in advancing the team’s work of producing protocols and tools that help companies implement global industry technical standards. Colleen is a native Wisconsinite, though she has lived in London and Sydney previously. In her spare time she enjoys attending storytelling and comedy events around New York, pointing out that all things great in the world stem from Wisconsin, hiding her North-woods accent, and working on silversmithing in her basement.

Hill is a dad joke aficionado, avid reader, podcast junky, and boasts a 995-day streak on Duolingo. She comes to TechLab from Epsilon where she was the product lead for their partnership with The Trade Desk and the Disclosed offering. She got her start with the IAB TechLab in the Distributed Ledger working group via her role at GroupM as the Assoc. Director of Product Management on the Global Investment Systems team. She has varied experience on both the buy and sell side of the industry and enjoys nerding out about all things ad tech.

Derek J. Smith comes to IAB with over twenty years of experience in the educational and nonprofit industries. As an Experiential Educator, Derek has utilized the classroom and nonprofit spaces to encourage innovation through the creation of technology-forward programs, leadership development workshops, writing and teaching curricula, organizational operations, and serving others! Most recently, Derek was an Adjunct Professor at the University of New Haven, where he taught Esports Basics, an introductory course to the world of esports. Previous positions also include an Educator for Teach For America; a Guidance Counselor for Texas public schools, and Executive Director for A House on Beekman.

Derek has a Bachelor’s in Communication, a Master’s in Educational Counseling, and will attain a Master’s in Esports Business and Management from the University of New Haven next summer. Derek enjoys spending time with his three children, designing bowties, and simracing (virtual car racing) on the weekends.

Amber is the Vice President of Human Resources for IAB. She stepped into the role in May 2022 and has oversight of the organization’s human resource functions, including culture, diversity, inclusion, and all people-focused initiatives.

Amber is an Equity Designer, People Strategist, and an Authentic People & Culture leader. Amber joins IAB with 15 years of experience; in Human Resources leadership roles within nonprofit, mission-driven organizations. She brings a unique mix of human resources, executive coaching, and thought leadership expertise.

Most recently, Amber was the Head of People & Culture at Sollis Health, where she launched the company’s first-ever human resources strategy and led the organization through a culture transformation. She holds a master’s degree in Human Resources Development from Fordham University, a senior professional human resources designation, and multiple professional coaching certifications from iPEC & IIN. In 2020, Disruptor Magazine named Amber one of the Top 30 Life Coaches to Look Out For in 2021.

Todd is an award-winning B2B and B2C brand strategy, marketing, and partner development executive. Before joining IAB, Todd worked for media companies/brands such as Paramount (MTV, MTV2, Showtime), NBCUniversal (Syfy) and Fuse Media (formerly NUVOtv / Si TV). More recently, Todd was an independent marketing and partner development consultant, working with companies such as HUDSY TV, COLLiDE Agency, The Content Farm and Pitch 5 Productions. Todd grew up on the East End of Long Island in East Moriches, NY and currently resides in the Hudson Valley in Beacon, NY. He has a B.A. in International Relations and Spanish from Bucknell University. In his free time, you can find Todd spending time with his family, going to concerts and baseball games, as well as adding to his vinyl record collection.

Erin comes to IAB with nearly 15 years of experience in event marketing. Most recently working in healthcare and life sciences as Director of Strategic Initiatives and Special Events, Erin enjoys the balance between the creative and analytical that comes with the territory. She gravitates towards building the storyline of a campaign, and then ‘nerds out’ gathering the data and monitoring the trends. Erin is originally from Connecticut, where most of her family still resides, and now lives on the Upper West Side. She holds a B.S. in Marketing from Central Connecticut State University, and various event related certifications, including the CMP.

Erin is a health and wellness junkie and recently received certification as an integrative health coach. You can often find her wandering a bookstore or a farmer’s market and enjoying the city.

Olivia V. Smith is a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and a SCRUM Master in Agile/Adaptive management, an iterative, incremental method of managing the design and building activities of engineering and information technology. She has worked in the technology field for more than 15 years with a proven track record of utilizing available resources to align plans to organizational strategies and drive on-time project delivery. She excels at leading teams to achieve desired business results and collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams.

Olivia started her career at Bear Stearns & Company. Moving fluidly across multiple industries, she worked at Apprise Software, Inc. and later AON Hewitt. The next 11 years were spent in the media and entertainment space at Warner Media, a division of AT&T, and most recently in retail at Foot Locker, Inc. From inception at Foot Locker, Olivia’s leadership was recognized by the CEO of Foot Locker for two consecutive years.

Olivia resides in Roselle New Jersey and enjoys giving back to the community. She believes to whom much is given, much is expected. She serves as New Jersey State Convener for the National Council of Negro Women, Inc. (“NCNW”) and is a National Board Member. At the State level, she is an Advisor to the New Jersey Bethune Height Recognition Program, the fundraising arm of NCNW wherein she served as Chair and Co-Chair as well as Chair of the Awards Committee. Locally, Olivia was the President of the Roselle Section, 1st VP of Programs, 2nd VP for Membership and Treasurer and she held these positions for two consecutive terms, respectively. A key accomplishment is the partnership with NCNW and Girls Who Code in launching clubs throughout the state of New Jersey as part of a global STEM initiative to close the disparity gap for girls in the field of computer science. Olivia also sits on the Planning Board as Vice Chair for the Borough of Roselle.

Olivia holds numerous academic degrees. She earned an Associate Degree from Katharine Gibbs School and an Associate Applied Science Degree in Computer Information Systems at DeVry University. In 2002, she completed her Bachelor of Arts Degree from Rutgers University and New Jersey Institute of Technology in Information Systems. Olivia subsequently earned an M.B.A. from PENNSTATE, Smeal College of Business and later completed a certification course in Human Resource Management from Cornell University.

Prior to joining the IAB, Emilia served as the Director of Sales Solutions at Vevo where she worked for six years and focused on integrated marketing strategies for Vevo’s top advertisers. She specializes in producing creative and strategic solutions for advertisers, and previously worked for publishers including SPIN, Vibe and NPR. Born in Argentina, she speaks fluent Spanish and grew up in Oregon and Maryland. She has a B.A. in English Language and Literature from the University of Maryland, College Park, with a focus on creative writing. Now residing in Putnam County, New York, she has a passion for gardening and grows thousands of cut flowers in her backyard that she sells locally.

Marc has over 15 years of operations experience with complex, integrated digital campaigns across many verticals including financial services, CPG, automotive, electronics and healthcare.

With a formal background in application development, Marc continues to be amazed by technological advances and is thrilled to be joining the IAB family. When not testing the limits of ChatGPT, Marc enjoys playing the piano and attending live theatre.

Dorotea Lechuga is the senior manager and website lead for the IAB and is responsible for the content, strategy, and administration of the IAB’s website and online services. She has a Master’s in Library and Information Sciences from Syracuse University and a Full Stack Developer Certificate from Coding Dojo, a prominent coding Bootcamp. Before joining the IAB, Dorotea worked at GroupM- first under the chief innovation officer managing an internal knowledge portal, and then on the global corporate communications team focused on the administration of the worldwide website. She worked as a web developer at Link Solutions, coding new features that were cross-browser compatible and responsive for a military client. She is excited to utilize her skills to further the IAB’s mission.

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Rachel is the Social Media Manager at the IAB, and has been in the industry since the early days of Instagram. Rachel studied Journalism in Moscow State University, which is where her love of storytelling grew strong and later turned into a full career. She thrives off of learning and processing information! In her free time, Rachel sketches, sings and geeks out on all things music.

Megan Vasiles is a digital marketing strategist with over a decade of experience helping global organizations optimize marketing plans and build long-term strategies for success.

She lives in Manhattan and hopes to adopt a cat soon! In her downtime you can find her writing science fiction, baking tasty vegan treats, or wandering the aisles of the nearest bookstore.

As a CMS (content management system) admin and project coordinator, Elizabeth is involved with content, page creation, and maintenance of the website. She plans, customizes and integrates third party softwares and applications with the website for the best possible user experience.

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Brian Albert leads the US Google/YouTube media partnerships team, driving strategic display & video deals with our largest advertising clients and agency partners.  He also is responsible for all Google Preferred & other YouTube premium video upfront negotiations.  Before this, Brian led a team which enabled independent media & creative agencies to unlock value across Google's media properties & technology platforms.  

Prior to Google, Brian spent 15+ years as a labor & employment attorney, sports marketer representing professional athletes, Internet entrepreneur at 3 early stage start-ups and digital marketing agency executive. 

He served on the Ad Council's inaugural Social Impact Council in 2016 and currently supports YouTube’s involvement with the IAB Digital Content NewFronts.  A graduate of The University of Michigan and The George Washington University Law School, Brian resides just outside Boston, MA with his wife and son.

Kyle Antoian is the Vice President, Strategic Partnerships at Epsilon, responsible for identifying and integrating new partnership opportunities into the company’s product line. Antoian helps lead the strategic partnerships group at Epsilon and focuses on data commercialization, new product incubation, and partnerships.

Kyle joined Epsilon from Datran Media where he led strategic partnership expansion with a focus on growing the user base of publishers and sustaining and prospecting match partners. Prior to that he was Marketing Manager at Takkle Inc, tasked with new customer acquisition and analytics.

Kyle holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Duke University. He is the assistant coach of Philadelphia-Whitemarsh Rugby Football Club and sits on the board of the Eastern Pennsylvania Rugby Union.

Wendy Arnon is a collaborative modern marketer with ~20 years in senior agency and market research roles. Before joining the IAB, Wendy was Director of Agencies, Americas for YouGov where she built a collaborative, cross-functional global team that leveraged data to meet real-time agency and media owner needs. During her 13-year tenure at Omnicom Media Group, Wendy built a data-driven performance media agency, creating one of the best-performing business units in the network. Wendy served as President and Trusted Advisor leading the performance media strategy for brands including Cigna, Astellas, Clorox, Synchrony, Goldman Sachs, Ancestry, State Farm, University of Phoenix, and Acadia. While at OMG, Wendy led the launch of new digital products and expanded into new markets. She also headed the creation of a proprietary industry-first video visualization measurement & optimization platform.

Wendy was inducted into the DMN Marketing Hall of Femme, selected as a three-time International Echo judge, and continues as a member of the Point of Care Marketing Association Industry Advisory Group. Wendy is a graduate of Omnicom University’s Senior Management Program, led by Harvard Business School professors and considered one of the pre-eminent professional development programs within the industry, as well as a graduate of Long Island University.

Wendy enjoys great food and has a passion for movies and TV. She resides in New York with her husband, two sons, and adorable Bichon Frise.

Yoav Arnstein is the Director of Product Marketing for Publisher Solutions in Facebook’s London office. Yoav joined Facebook from LiveRail. Previously, he was at Legolas Media where he was CEO and grew the company to a multi-million dollar revenue business. Prior to Legolas, Yoav was at Eyeblaster (now MediaMind) where he was GM International, and then GM North American operations. At Eyeblaster, Yoav oversaw revenue growth of more than 5x, opened multiple international offices and helped build Eyeblaster into the world’s leading rich media ad platform. Yoav holds a B.Sc in Computer Science and Statistics from Tel-Aviv University and an M.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Denmark’s Technical University.

As Chief Digital and Operating Officer at PHD USA, Craig maintains a dual role with oversight of the agency overall as well as serving as the champion of thought leadership and innovation focused on the agency’s output.

Craig came to PHD after 6+ years at sister agencies OMD and Omnicom Media Group where, most recently he served as Chief of Acquisitions, North America, leading strategic and corporate development for Omnicom Media Group, with a particular focus on emerging areas of digital channels including search marketing, mobile, social media and content development. In addition, Craig was the overall owner of the client relationship for the McDonald’s US business at OMD.

Before taking on the Acquisitions role, Craig served as Midwest Regional Director at OMD and was responsible for the strategic direction and regional oversight of OMD’s Chicago operations.

Craig has held positions within digital marketing since its inception in the mid 1990’s, playing key Account, Media and Strategy roles at Modem Media, Digitas, and Arc Worldwide leading digital marketing strategy and program development for such clients as Intel, Michelin, HP, the U.S. Army and Allstate. Craig also spent two years on the client side working inside Washington Mutual’s ecommerce group as a product manager, leading development of applications to acquire and securitize mortgage backed loans.

A frequent speaker and recognized thought leader in the emerging and digital marketing landscape, Craig is regularly quoted in such publications as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Advertising Age and Adweek.

Craig is a graduate of the University of Vermont, recently relocated to the NY area and is thoroughly enjoying eating his way through his new neighborhood in Brooklyn with his wife Nikki and sons Jake and Sam.

Mark Avnet is Senior Director of Learning and Development at IAB, bringing over 25 years of senior leadership, learning and development, talent management, thought leadership, and innovation experience to IAB, its members and partners.

Before joining IAB, Mark was Senior Business Advisor for the Massachusetts Small Business Development Center, run through UMass Amherst in partnership with the US Small Business Administration. Simultaneously, Mark founded Converging Arts, a consultancy focused on professional development and education, working with clients in advertising and marketing, education, legal, technology, and publishing.

Prior to that, Mark was Head of Learning and Development at 360i, founding and leading L&D and Thought Leadership at this large Dentsu-owned digital-first advertising and marketing agency. He developed and facilitated programs to help the large employee base develop manager and leadership excellence, interpersonal and group communication skills, presentation and writing skills, ideation techniques, unconscious bias awareness and mitigation practices, dealing with digital disruption, and more. He also created video-based and online courses for both employees and clients. Mark worked directly with, and crafted and delivered L&D programs, for 360i clients including Coca-Cola, Nestle, Barilla, Kraft, Mondelez, Canon, Mattel, and Oscar Mayer, as well as colleges and universities on behalf of 360i.

Mark’s academic credentials include Professor and founding Head of the Creative Technology program at VCU Virginia Commonwealth University’s Brandcenter, widely recognized as the nation’s top graduate school in advertising and marketing. Mark was Chair of Communications at Russell Sage College/Sage Colleges of Albany, Visiting Professor at Marist College, and Adjunct professor in both NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Communications. Mark also developed a robust online program in Digital Branding and Strategy for SU’s master’s degree program.

Other industry roles include Senior Vice President and Director of Technology and Production at Ammirati Puris Lintas, Chief Technology Officer and Head of the Innovation Lab at Lot21 Interactive, Head of New Media at @radicalmedia, and Executive Producer and Head of Production at Hearst New Media.

Mark has been a professional musician, recording engineer/producer, and recording studio owner. He is a certified clinical hypnotherapist, and in an early career left-turn raised giant sea slugs for a living.

Matt has worked in digital media for over 12 years with stops at companies like neo@Ogilvy, CBS Interactive, and Undertone. He currently lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn with his wife (who is also in the industry) and 4-year-old son.

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

Airey Baringer is Head of Product at Quantcast. At Quantcast, Airey is focused on developing product and business solutions at the intersection of privacy and advertising.

Previously, Airey led business and product development teams for consumer internet and SaaS products, including products focused on helping consumers complete their taxes, understand and act in accordance with the Affordable Care Act, and increase access to sustainable food products. In his free time, Airey is usually trail running, backpacking, cycling, and eating his way through the San Francisco Bay Area.

Christina Beaumier can get by in a few languages. She can order street food in Spanish and handle tribal negotiations in Burkina Faso in French. She understands the artist’s argot of her Northampton, MA hometown; comprehends the brainier dialects that originate at MIT, her alma mater; and is attuned to the intricacies of the Brooklyn accent, where she now lives with her family.

After a Peace Corps stint in Burkina Faso, and business school at MIT Sloan, Christina started her post-MBA career in investment banking, learning an analytical linguistics based on rigor and numbers. She was then exposed to the more creative syntax of the marketing world.

This path led her to Xaxis where she had a meteoric rise, starting as Director Strategic Engagements, then VP Global Client Development, then VP Media Product Development, and ultimately becoming SVP and leader of their digital ad unit. She was most recently a Strategic Partner Lead, Video Distributors and Telco, at Google, further solidifying her position as the Most Interesting Women in Ad Tech.

Her combined studies across continents and industries have made her into one of the most fluent translators in ad tech:

Within ad tech, nothing is a silo! There’s always a business development angle, a client angle, a technology angle, a media angle, a product angle… so being able to speak different languages and relate to different stakeholders is a powerful tool to help bridge gaps and bring people together.

Christina now brings her encyclopedic experience and comprehensive understanding of the industry to her role as VP, Product, TV Platform for AT&T’s advertising and analytics company Xandr. She considers this to be the perfect place to bring everything together: the rigor of analytics and the stories of brands, finally translated into a message that people care to hear.

The future at AT&T is exciting and not without uncertainty, but Christina finds herself comfortable in imbalance. She believes that the essence of business and life is a commitment to always correcting those imbalances, and finding the best way forward.

Advertising needs to relearn how to communicate with humans; Christina is the polyglot for the job.

Tom Bedecarré is one of the most influential leaders in advertising today. Recently named “Silicon Valley’s Favorite Adman” by Fortune Magazine, he was described as a rare hybrid who has cred with both Silicon Valley techies and advertising’s Mad Men.

Tom is CEO of AKQA, the world’s largest independent digital advertising agency. With 1,000 global employees, AKQA has offices in Amsterdam, Berlin, London, New York, San Francisco, Shanghai and Washington D.C. and serves leading clients including Audi, Heineken, Nike, Target, Visa and Xbox.

An enthusiastic entrepreneur, Tom has been an innovator and pioneer of the advertising and communications business over the last three decades. Previously, Tom was founder and CEO of Citron Haligman Bedecarré, San Francisco’s largest independent advertising agency and a leader in launching Internet brands.

Tom holds a BA degree from Stanford University and an MBA degree from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Jeff Benjamin, former Partner and Chief Creative Officer at Crispin Porter + Bogusky, joined JWT in 2012 as Chief Creative Officer, North America.

During his career, Jeff has navigated clients through the interactive landscape with great success, creating some of the world’s most pioneering and famous campaigns. His ability to lead multi-national marketers to experiment and break ground has continually opened up new doors for brands such as Best Buy, Coke Zero, Domino’s Pizza, Microsoft and Kraft. ‘Subservient Chicken’ and ‘Whopper Sacrifice,’ his campaigns for Burger King, are among the most successful viral marketing campaigns of all time.

Jeff has been recognized internationally by every major industry award show, winning the Grand Prix at Cannes in three different categories, Best of Show at the One Show, and the Grand Clio at the Clio Awards. He served as president of the Cyber Jury at Cannes in 2010, has been profiled in Fast Company and The New York Times, appeared in the ‘Creativity 50’ and is regularly called upon by television networks such as CNBC to comment on the state of the industry. His work has been showcased in numerous publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Communication Arts, Time, and Newsweek.

Varun Bhagwan is an executive with 20 years of experience leading numerous R&D projects from inception to delivery. Varun currently serves as Vice President of Product Management & Engineering at Verizon Media, where he is responsible for all Advertising Data Products: Targeting & Identity, Insights & Measurement, and Trust & Verification. Prior to the formation of Verizon Media, Varun held several leadership roles at Yahoo! focused on Data, Insights & Measurement as well as Mail Monetization Insights & Analytics.

Prior to joining Yahoo!, Varun worked in research for 12 years at IBM where his focus areas included text analytics, web-scale systems, information Integration, healthcare, and privacy.

Varun holds his Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, and his MS in Computer Science from University of Florida. Varun has invented or co-invented roughly 50 patents, is a Yahoo! Master Inventor, holds 10 honors & awards including Verizon’s top honor of the Verizon Credo Award, and produced more than 15 publications in top tier conferences and journals. Varun is also a frequent speaker at industry events and represents the company at events such as CES, Cannes Lions etc.

Paige Bilins leads Telaria’s global product team and is responsible for developing the company’s product strategy and designing and bringing to market proprietary yield and inventory management software solutions for premium video publishers across all screens and transaction types.

Prior to joining Telaria, Paige was SVP, Product Management at Freewheel where she spent over eight years. In that role, she led product strategy across two businesses resulting in double digit year-over-year growth. Ms. Bilins started her career at as a software engineer in the defense industry at Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman.

Paige holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Arizona State University as well as an MBA from Yale University.

Winston Binch is Chief Digital Officer, Deutsch North America, and one of the most accomplished digital marketing leaders and innovators of his generation. Over the past 15 years, he’s developed some of the industry’s most influential and meaningful digital campaigns, products, and experiences, bringing customization to Nike by way of Nike iD and the Pizza Tracker to Domino’s, Whopper Sacrifice to Burger King, and reinventing Volkswagen’s approach to online car shopping. He has also advised countless global brands and conglomerates on how to identify the marketing potential of the digital age, including American Express, Best Buy, Microsoft, Target, Pizza Hut, Vail Resorts, Sprint and Taco Bell. An educator and humanitarian at heart, Winston is co-founder of Boulder Digital Works at the University of Colorado, a digital continuing education program, and sits on the board of Protect Our Winters, a non-profit organization against climate change. See what he’s up to on Twitter or Instagram @winstonbinch.

Marcela is an Executive Assistant that has been working with C- level in the marketing/ media/ advertising industry for over 10 years.

Renee Bourne is a dynamic and resourceful professional, with an exceptional background working in the ever changing, fast-paced events industry. Prior to joining IAB, Renee has worked at Dow Jones and Black Enterprise as their Sponsorship Manager. She comes with a plethora of experience handling best in class brand management for assigned accounts that brings cross platform media campaigns & national event partnerships to life.

In her spare time Renee likes to travel with her two daughters and manage her online children’s boutique.

Renee received her Associates Degree from Long Island University C.W. Post and a Bachelor of Science from SUNY Empire College.

Dan is the CTO of Extreme Reach. He leads innovation and development with a customer-centric revision cycle, growing our industry-leading platform with new capabilities every two weeks. With over 15 years of experience in systems architecture, application design and development of leadership, Dan is known for developing transformative advertising technology solutions.

Conor Brady is a Global Creative Director at Huge, where he works closely with creative teams across the agency’s offices in the United States, Europe and Latin America. Conor plays a critical role in Huge’s work on integrated marketing campaigns and business development.

Before joining Huge, Conor served as Chief Creative Officer at Organic, where he was responsible for overseeing the creative discipline across all offices in the United States and Europe. He has worked with many of the world’s largest brands, including Pepsi, Intel, Hilton Hotel Group, VW, BBC, Bank of America, P&G, Nike and Conde Nast.

Conor studied at the Royal College of Art and Middlesex University and holds a BA in graphic design. Conor is an avid cyclist and lives in Brooklyn with his wife. In his spare time, he runs Elcyclista, a journal for bike design and culture.

Brad has led Durham, North Carolina-based McKinney since 2002.

Since his arrival, McKinney has more than doubled in size by building one of the most innovative business models in the advertising industry, one that blurs the line between traditional and digital media. As a result, McKinney has been recognized as one of the best agencies in the country by Advertising Age. In 2008, Brad led a management buyback of the agency from French holding company Havas.

He is also on the board of the American Association of Advertising Agencies (4A’s) and founding chair of the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s (IAB’s) Agency Advisory Board.

An anthropology major at Dartmouth, where he rowed on the varsity crew and was editor-in-chief of the humor magazine, Brad also earned a finance MBA from Columbia. Before joining McKinney, he spent two decades at global advertising giant Leo Burnett in Chicago, rising from trainee to CEO of Leo Burnett USA.

David Campanelli is a 19 year industry veteran and a homegrown Horizon talent. As Executive Vice President, Director of Video Investment, David is in charge of all Horizon’s national TV and premium digital video buying. David oversees such accounts as GEICO, Dish, Weight Watchers Burger King, Corona, LG, Little Caesars, Capital One and others. Over the past several years Horizon has seen its billings in the National arena skyrocket to now exceed $4.3B under David’s supervision.

David has spearheaded Horizon’s “video buying” approach, helping to break down the walls between traditional TV buying and digital video buying, resulting in innovative deals on behalf of his clients. Also, he has established and oversees Horizon’s sports buying unit, which has become one of the largest sports spenders in the industry, have placed major sports platforms such as the Capital One Orange Bowl.

More recently David has set his sights on the advanced TV marketplace, creating Horizon Advanced, a dedicated team to lead Horizon’s path forward in the emerging world of data informed, programmatic and Over The Top TV.

David has already garnered some of the industry’s top honors, including winning a CableFax “Sweet 16” award and the Mediaweek All-Star Award in the National TV category.

Jianna is a digital native – creating graphics, editing videos, and growing social media pages since 2010. Formerly an engineering student, she has supported and developed brands and businesses on campus, through internships, and as a freelance consultant. Jianna received her Associates from the County College of Morris and is a proud alumna of Rutgers Business School where she received a Bachelor of Science in Marketing.

As President and CEO of Index Exchange, Andrew leads 300 of the brightest minds in advertising technology across the U.S., Canada and Europe. With a sharp focus on delivering benefits to media companies like The New York Times, Hearst, Daily Mail and Conde Nast as they tackle the world of automation, he’s built Index Exchange as one of the only pure-play and transparent ad exchanges in the advertising ecosystem. While he’s responsible for providing strategic direction and market vision to the company at large, he’s also hands on with all day-to-day corporate operations.

Andrew has a unique penchant for the advertising industry and the promise of its automated future. At only age 15, he was a strategic advisor for his family company, Casale Media – one of the first ad tech startups built to help marketers manage online ad inventory. 15 years later, he’s pivoted his family’s company Casale Media into Index Exchange. By doubling down on investments in engineering and infrastructure, he’s continued to grow the company’s revenue by over 100% y/y and adding headcount when needed to bolster the company’s offering.

As a respected industry thought leader, Andrew is widely sought-after for his expertise and opinions on programmatic and exchange-traded media, and the growing need to transact with transparency at the forefront of the conversation. Andrew’s bylines and media contributions have appeared in numerous publications including Ad Age, Adweek, AdExchanger, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.

Karen leads Acxiom’s data product division with responsibility for data product strategy and the expansion of Acxiom’s data capabilities in the US and across global markets. Karen’s expertise lies in the design, development, and implementation of customer targeting and engagement strategies. Karen has deep experience across all aspects of the data ecosystem and is an expert on the nuances and complexities of the global data landscape with significant on-the-ground experience across EMEA, Latin America, Asia Pacific, and North America.

Before joining Acxiom Karen was Vice President of Global Data Solutions at Merkle where she focused on expanding Merkle’s data solutions into new global markets as well as working with clients to expand their CRM strategies across geographies. Prior to that, she held multiple roles in Europe and the Americas with ICLP – the global loyalty agency

Joe has 25 years of experience in both digital and physical product development leadership. He currently leads content and search advertising, as well as homepage experiences, for Microsoft News. His teams have driven a host of novel technical and product innovations in the area of native advertising, including implementation of new server-side delivery mechanisms that improve user experience, fraud rates, breakage, and yield. Joe’s passion with respect to advertising is ensuring that digital advertising is used as a force for good, allowing consumers access to trusted and valuable experiences that they would not otherwise be able to afford, or be willing to pay for. His current professional focus areas include developing industry-wide solutions that allow users to safely and proactively share information with publishers and advertisers, as well as innovating on business models in ways that help content publishers achieve sustainable economics.

Tal Chalozin is Co-Founder & CTO of Innovid, the industry leader in interactive video advertising. As CTO of Innovid, Mr. Chalozin is responsible for technology development and implementation, product creation and business development activities across the company.

Mr. Chalozin is a multi-disciplinary entrepreneur, in early 2006 he co-founded the GarageGeeks (www.garageGeeks.org), a non for profit organization for creative people to meet, innovate and build noncommercial projects that would otherwise not come to life. GarageGeeks has grown to be one of Israel’s biggest “underground” organizations and its community consists of more than 1,000 active members. Prior to the GarageGeeks, Chalozin served as an officer in an elite computer unit in the Israeli Air Force for eight years, where he led the development of several military products with high algorithmic complexity.

Pete Chelala is Viacom’s Vice President of Mobile and Video Partner Solutions where he focuses on driving strategy and development of mobile and video ad sales products across Viacom Media Networks’ Music, Entertainment, Kids and Family brands. He joined Viacom from The Weather Channel where he worked for the four years building and selling marketing solutions across the its mobile platform. Prior to The Weather Channel, Mr. Chelala spent three years in the online ad sales at both About.com and Yahoo!. Before moving into ad sales, he worked in production on commercials, music videos and feature films out of Los Angeles.

Debi Chirichella is president of Hearst Magazines, one of the world’s largest publishers of monthly magazines, with 25 U.S. titles and close to 300 international editions, after serving as executive vice president, chief financial officer and director of global operations for Hearst Magazines.

She joined Hearst Magazines as senior vice president and chief financial officer in November 2011, overseeing the company’s strategic financial planning and reporting. Previously, Chirichella spent seven years at Condé Nast, where she served in a number of executive positions. From 2008 until early 2011, she was chief operating officer of Condé Nast Digital; simultaneously, beginning in 2010, she was COO of the Fairchild Fashion Group. Before that, she was chief financial officer of Condé Nast Publications.

Earlier in her career, Chirichella held several high-level planning, finance and operations roles at Primedia, and most recently, she served as CFO/COO at Prometheus Global Media.

Chirichella is a graduate of Princeton University and received her master’s degree in business from Harvard University. She currently resides in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, with her husband and three children.

Jee Cho is a highly accomplished program management leader with 20+ years in the media and tech industry and brings to IAB a successful career of working in various roles in consulting, technology, and finance. Jee is a strategic thinker and doer who seeks to deliver measurable results through collaboration, engagement, and thoughtful planning.

She holds a BBA in Information Systems from Pace University and an Executive MS in Technology Management from Columbia University.

Jee resides in Hartsdale, New York and loves to travel and stay active with her husband, Mark, daughter Emma, and their dog Buddy.

Very few have had a run like Brent Choi over the past decade. Prior to being tapped to lead both J. Walter Thompson New York and Canada in 2015, Brent helped to transform the company’s Canadian operation, winning new business and leading the agency to be named Strategy’s 2015 Silver Agency of the Year. In fact, since 2000, Brent has helped two different agencies to become Agency of the Year in Canada.

Now, Brent drives industry-leading creative work for clients like Johnson & Johnson, Puma, Kellogg’s Special K, Tim Hortons, Air Canada, and more.

In 2013, Brent was the #2 ranked Chief Creative Officer in the world for his digital work, and consistently ranked as one of Canada’s top 10 creative directors. In the past few years, he has received several Cannes Lions (including two golds), multiple CLIOs and D&AD pencils, AdAge’s Top Five Ads of the Year, and was one of only 11 worldwide winners of the inaugural Fast Company Innovation Award. His work has also been featured numerous times in Mashable, Wired, Forbes, CNN, and Fast Company.

Some would say his creative success is because he started with a business degree from Ivey, one of Canada’s top business schools. Others will argue it’s in spite of it. At home he is a proud dad, insane NFL fan, and loving husband. His wife would add “In that order.”

As Senior Vice President of Addressability and Ecosystem at LiveRamp, Travis is responsible for leading the company’s global digital advertising ecosystem strategy: leading strategic initiatives, advancing global partnerships, and overseeing the business development and go-to-market strategies for key addressability products and initiatives. The Authenticated Traffic Solution is one such product, enabling publishers to link their first party identity to IdentityLink and then connect to the IdentityLink infrastructure LiveRamp has built across partner platforms to enable marketers to buy and measure on IdentityLink. Travis is a co-founder and Board Member of the Advertising ID Consortium, advocating for people-based identifiers to be transacted across the open Internet. Prior to joining LiveRamp, Travis was a director at Epic Systems responsible for implementing systems that managed sensitive healthcare information. Travis holds a BA in Political Science from Rollins College.

Paul holds a BSE, EECS from Princeton University, an MS in Computer Science from John Hopkins University and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

As VP, Enterprise Brand, Advertising and Media, at Voya Financial, Jim leads brand strategy, creative development and media planning. Jim’s current focus is building the Voya Financial brand introduced in the fall of 2014. His responsibilities include ensuring Voya’s brand is effectively expressed across television, digital, mobile, social and search platforms for consumer and business audiences. He has a passion for developing high impact integrated initiatives with partners, building messaging across touch points, and driving a measurement based culture.

Prior to joining Voya Financial, Jim led agency and client teams developing and executing brand strategy, creative, and media for companies in financial, real estate, healthcare, and retail industries. He has MBA and BA degrees from Duke University and resides in Atlanta.

Every agency says it wants “to do great creative,” but for Chief Creative Officer Susan Credle, it’s the reason why that matters. “Great creative has to build helpful, meaningful brands for the long-term,” she says. “That’s the sum of what we at Leo Burnett do, and what I’ve set out to do my entire career.”

She came to Leo Burnett in the fall of 2009, after more than two decades at BBDO in which she rose from “bathroom-break girl” for the agency’s receptionists to EVP Executive Creative Director. There, Susan reinvented the iconic M&M’s characters; turned Cingular Wireless from a start-up into a leader brand; and created other consistently award-winning work for such clients as Bank of America, FedEx, Gillette, Lowe’s, PepsiCo, Pizza Hut and Visa.

Since joining Leo Burnett, Susan has spearheaded a creative renaissance at the agency through an eye for new top talent, a commitment to work that benefits brands and the world, and a vision for clients that always looks beyond a single campaign or ad.

Susan’s leadership, inspiration and in-the-trenches contributions have led to legacy-respecting yet forward-looking campaigns like McDonald’s Happy Meal “Happy Tales,” Kellogg’s Special K “What Will You Gain When You Lose?” Secret’s “Mean Stinks” anti-bullying campaign and, one of the most beloved and awarded platform ideas, Allstate’s “Mayhem.”

“I believe in purpose-driven brands and having pride in something in lasts,” she says. “And, as we say here at Leo, that creativity can transform human behavior.”

Susan serves on the Boards of the University of North Carolina’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, the American Association of Advertising Agencies, the Foundation for EXXcellence and the Creative Circus. She is a member of the Economic Club of Chicago, the Media Council at the Paley Center for Media in New York, the Creative Review Board of the Ad Council and is a supporter of Marwen and One Million Degrees in Chicago.

Karan heads supply operations for Media.net and manages some of Media.net’s key publisher partnerships working out of the New York office. As one of the first employees, he has been instrumental in Media.net’s rise in the adtech ecosystem. His role over the last 10+ years has been focused on building and managing partnerships across the ad-tech landscape, nurturing strategic alliances and helping drive product strategy.

Prior to Media.net, Karan was an attorney in the Technology & Media practice of one of India’s premier law firms. He is deeply passionate about how access to quality education can help alleviate global poverty and spent over a year living and teaching in a remote village in India to improve the educational infrastructure for teachers and students.

Karan holds a BS in Computer Science and Mathematics from University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign and a Bachelor of Laws degree from Mumbai University.

David Danziger is the Vice President of Enterprise Partnerships at The Trade Desk, a global demand-side platform in the $5B real-time bidding industry. In his role at The Trade Desk, David leads the company's strategic partnerships for data, targeting, and measurement. His emphasis is creating relationships that increase effectiveness of The Trade Desk clients’ media buys through improved front-end targeting or back-end analytics.

David is an adtech and data industry veteran having previously served as senior director of data solutions at Merkle and director of data products at Acxiom.

David is a graduate of The University of Michigan and The University of Texas.

Keyah is a native New Yorker who was born and raised in the Bronx. She has a wide variety of experience from working in the streaming service industry, to digital marketing and event planning. After over four years living in Orlando, Florida, Keyah returned to her native and now resides in Brooklyn. In her spare time, she enjoys exploring museums, studying a new language, or roller skating.

Mainardo de Nardis has been CEO of OMD Worldwide since 2009.

OMD Worldwide is a leading global media communications agency, recognized for its global footprint, strategic integration and creative innovation. It has been acknowledged as Most Creative Media Agency by The Gunn Report for nine consecutive years; Adweek Global Media Agency of the Year for 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2014; and the 2002, 2005, 2009 and 2011 Media Agency of the Year by Advertising Age.

Prior to joining OMD he was CEO of both Aegis Media and Mediaedge:cia Worldwide. He was a co-founder of one of Italy’s “third wave” ad agencies before moving from advertising to media communications to start Medianetwork, Italy’s first media independent.

Mainardo presided over the Cannes Festival’s Media Lions Jury in 2012 and sits on the Boards of Omnicom Media Group and the Ad Council. He resides in NY and London with his family.

Miranda Dimopoulos is the Regional CEO of the IAB SEA+India, a not-for-profit association that elevates the digital industry locally, regionally and globally.

Under her leadership, the membership has grown more than twelvefold in the last five years. An economist and expert on Asia, Miranda is a sought-after public speaker and commentator internationally on the insights and opportunities to grow investment in this diverse region. She has served as a Singapore Government Board Member for Critical Infocomm Technology since 2016, is an official advisor to the Indonesia, Thailand and India Governments and launched the 2018 partnership with the Economic Development Board (EDB) and Workforce Singapore (WSG) for a 2 year programme developing Programmatic talent.

Miranda was one of Campaign APAC’s 40 under 40 2016, CMO Asia and World Brand Congress Top 50 Leaders in Asia 2016, Campaign APAC Women to Watch (Agents of Change) 2016, the only person from APAC on the The Drum New Years Global Honours List 2017, World Women’s Congress Super Influencer 2017 (Top 10 Global Leaders) and Business Top Leader APAC 2018.

Michael Dorf serves as Vice President of Revenue Operations at Univision Communications Inc. Michael oversees all of Yield Management, Ad Operations, Programmatic and Advertising Solutions.

Previously, Michael lead the Media Operations team at Freewheel, a Comcast Company and was able to bridge the gaps between Linear, Digital and Programmatic advertising. Prior to that he was at Conde Nast where he led the Ad Operations across Video, Programmatic, Display and Native. He started his career running Revenue Operations for Blip Networks which was eventually acquired by Disney via Maker Studios.

Gil Elbaz is the Founder and CEO of Factual, a data company that enables developers, publishers and advertisers to build highly relevant mobile experiences using the context of location. Prior to Factual, Gil co-founded Applied Semantics Inc. (ASI), which developed contextual advertising products, including ASI’s AdSense. Google acquired ASI in 2003, where Gil stayed on as the director of engineering, continuing to work on AdSense and other products. In 2008, Gil founded The Common Crawl Foundation, a non-profit with the goal of democratizing access to web information to enable greater innovation in research, business and education. He continues to serve on the board there as well as on the board of the X Prize Foundation. Gil is an active angel investor. He recently co-founded TenOneTen ventures with David Waxman, and his notable investments include Climate Corporation (acquired by Monsanto for $1.2 billion), GoodReads (acquired by Amazon), Scopely, and Kaggle. Gil earned a B.S. with a double major in Engineering & Applied Science and Economics from the California Institute of Technology.

Tom works across Saatchi & Saatchi’s worldwide digital capability and is based in NYC and spends 50% of his time in China as Greater China Chief Digital Officer. He has both a worldwide focus across integrated creative, strategy and operations, adding talent, new capabilities and forging worldwide partnerships with creative partners and platforms. In 2014, Tom added Digital Executive Creative Director to the Asia Pacific/China region to his creative and strategic duties. Tom is a highly awarded digital and mobile creative director, with 69 Cannes Lions across multiple categories and 100s of international awards. Following his Presidency of the Cyber Lions, Tom was the first President of the Mobile Lions in 2012. The Creative Data jury at Cannes 2015 is Tom’s fifth Cannes jury, having served on the 2002 Cyber and 2006 Titanium juries. He is a member of Saatchi & Saatchi’s Worldwide Creative Board and works on the development of the annual New Director’s Showcase at Cannes Lions. Tom’s creative work is part of the permanent design collections of Museum of Modern Art in NYC and the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC. Naturally Tom’s work has become all things social and mobile. He champions the necessity, tactics, and possibilities of mobile advertising and marketing in his recently published book “Mobile Magic”, where he takes readers step-by-step through his process for creating truly mobile ideas. Tom lives with his partner Gregory and their Lakeland Terrier Berkeley Jackson in the Financial District of Manhattan.

Anne Espinal joins IAB as an Account Manager for the Member Engagement and Development team focusing on post-sale management. Previously, Anne was with Nielsen on the Client Solutions Team working directly with clients to inform and support Nielsen products for both traditional TV and digital offerings. Prior to that, Anne worked on the Audio team at Univision, managing sold audio sponsorships from inception to execution as well as planning and strategizing media plans. Anne brings her experience in client relationship and project management to execute seamless sponsorships and campaigns for IAB and its members.

Townsend Feehan is CEO of IAB Europe. Prior to joining IAB Europe, Townsend worked for Microsoft Legal & Corporate Affairs in Brussels and ran EU industry associations in the ICT, consumer electronics and biotechnology sectors. Townsend has an M. Phil. in European policy from the law faculty of the University of Edinburgh.

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.

Tony is an experienced lawyer specializing in issues affecting digital advertising and media. Most recently, Tony was attorney at ZwillGen, where his practice focused on advising ad-tech platforms, social media companies, and digital publishers on strategy and compliance in connection with privacy requirements. Tony previously served as counsel for the Network Advertising Initiative and worked at an international law firm. Tony holds a J.D. from the Duke University School of Law, and an M.A. in philosophy from Georgetown University.

Kirsten is the Managing Director of BBDO New York.

In addition to her agency responsibilities, Kirsten oversees the Mars business (which includes more than a dozen of the company’s major chocolate, pet and food brands), FedEx, ExxonMobil and the agency’s public service efforts in support of Autism Speaks. 

Since joining BBDO in 2006, Kirsten has been named a “Woman to Watch” as well as one of the “100 Most Influential Women in Advertising” by Ad Age.


Outside of her day-to-day responsibilities, Kirsten serves on the board of Somerset Hills Learning Institute, one of the premier institutions for children with Autism, is a member of Advertising Women of New York and BBDO’s Women Leadership Council, a group dedicated to helping women succeed in the workplace.

 Kirsten is a 1989 graduate of the University of Florida. She currently resides in Brooklyn with her husband and their two children.

Kurt Fulepp is the Global Chief Product Officer of AccuWeather. In this key leadership role, Kurt is responsible for the vision, strategy and design for the enterprise-wide product portfolio, as well as brand design, creative services, audience & analytics, business intelligence and mobile app development.

As CPO, Kurt is charged with every element of the AccuWeather product roadmap, from conceptualization to launch and post-launch performance. Drawing on his extensive experience working at the intersection of cutting-edge digital products and premium content, he leads the development of the latest ecosystems of products, leveraging artificial intelligence, big data, and connected and smart devices. His expertise in multiplatform storytelling, product management, content commercialization, and cross-platform brand development shapes how AccuWeather delivers weather information to consumers and enterprises around the world.


Before joining AccuWeather, Kurt served as Vice President and Digital General Manager of News and Business at Time, Inc leading the digital brands of TIME, Money & Fortune. Previously, he was Vice President and Head of Product at AOL, Inc., where he oversaw product management, technology and design of AOL’s core business of AOL.com, as well as a portfolio of lifestyle brands focused on home, food, style, weddings and women’s leadership. Concurrent with his AOL tenure, Kurt also served as General Manager of MAKERS.com, providing end-to-end leadership for this first-of-its-kind multiplatform video destination, which profiled exceptional women and their groundbreaking achievements.


Earlier in his career, Kurt served as Senior Manager, Consumer Marketing for NineMSN (Microsoft’s joint-venture in Australia) covering Bing, MSN and Windows Live (incl. Hotmail, SkyDrive & WebApps), as well as Director of Marketing at Nine Television Network Australia; one of Australia’s largest commercial television networks.


Kurt is also as an adjunct professor in the Master of Science in Publishing – Digital Media program at New York University, teaching a course that examines the various business models in digital media and what it takes to build a successful digital publishing business.


He resides in New York City and based at AccuWeather’s New York office at 7 World Trade Center.

Jackie has extensive accounting experience in the non-profit sector working alongside the Archdiocese of NY working in customer support, accounts receivable, cash receipts, and treasury functions. Jackie is thrilled about starting her new role at IAB.

Gina Garrubbo is President and CEO of National Public Media (NPM), where she is committed to ensuring the continued growth of NPR and the public media system via funding from corporate sponsors. Garrubbo has spent more than 20 years in traditional and digital media growing marketing and sales teams, launching brands and building companies. She was one of the builders of Women.com, one of the first websites for women, and BlogHer, which brought independent voices to millions of readers. Garrubbo built advertising sales teams for Oxygen Media, Discovery Communications and in syndicated television. She is Chair of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Board of Directors. She also sits on the Board of Directors of Tappp (an OTT video service), Glen Highland Farm and the Philanthropic Leadership board of EatREAL.org.

Erik leads the Facebook US & Canada Agency teams based in New York and is part of NA Sales Team. His team’s mission is to advance the value that agencies bring their partners through the “relentless pursuit of progress”! Additionally, Erik is the executive sponsor for the Facebook Reserve video solutions that feature In-Stream videos in Watch. He previously led the Technology and Telecommunication team at Facebook for over four years. Prior to Facebook, Erik has founded several companies under the common theme of “changing the way brands advertise”. In 1994, he was a founding partner at Student Advantage, a college marketing company that is credited with establishing the benefits of Youth and Student marketing. In 2005, as a partner and Chief Strategy Officer at Noise, his digital agency produced the first ever marketing campaign on Facebook for Chase credit card services. Erik lives in Brooklyn with his wife Rachel, daughter Ryan (12) and son Logan (11) and enjoys cooking, golf and snowboarding.

As Chief Innovation Officer, Quentin George is responsible for the overall growth, development and implementation of Mediabrands’ intelligence capabilities including its incubation practice and the physical and virtual Media Labs. Quentin serves as the key driver of all group activities that address not only the complexities of the digital arena for Mediabrands’ clients, but also educates and informs our clients on the hidden opportunities within the space. Internally, he will continue to transform the Mediabrands culture, creating a toolkit of resources that connects the network with a complete catalog of Mediabrands’ services and platform capabilities, partner solutions and case studies. In addition, Quentin will identify and introduce Mediabrands and IPG leadership to potential technology and content partners that are ideally suited to enable our network and clients to grow.

One of the most tenured leaders in the digital arena, Quentin was appointed Chief Digital Officer, Mediabrands in 2009. He joined the IPG Network in 2007 and was named Global Lead, Digital Media and Strategic Innovation for Universal McCann. Prior to his role at UM, he served as Chief of Corporate Development and Managing Director for Organic, Inc., where he grew the business substantially since joining in October 2004. During his tenure at Organic, he led assignments for clients such as Sprint, 20th Century Fox, Mitsubishi Motors and GeekSquad.

Quentin was SVP of Client Services at Avenue A/Razorfish, where he co-managed the San Francisco and Los Angeles offices and was responsible for driving online-based initiatives for clients such as Sun Microsystems, Oracle, Disney, Cisco Systems and Genentech. Back in 1994, he cofounded Electric Ocean, an internationally renowned interactive marketing agency based in Cape Town, South Africa, where he won one of the first Clios ever awarded for digital work. He’s also a founding member and former cochairman of the Digital Interactive Media Association (DIMA).

Quentin resides and makes wine in San Francisco with his wife and children.

Adam Gerber is Global President, Media, for Essence, a data-driven global agency that is part of WPP’s GroupM. In this role, he oversees media capabilities across all channels. This includes driving the agency’s planning, investment, activation and ad operations disciplines and their intersection with GroupM. Gerber’s priority is to build and scale innovative, cross-channel investment models rooted in data and outcome-based metrics that are tied to clients’ business success. He stepped into this role in 2018 after serving as Essence’s SVP, Investment, North America.

Gerber joined Essence in 2017 after spending six years at ABC/Disney where he departed as SVP, Client Development & Communications. Before ABC, he served as Chief Marketing Officer of Quantcast, where he was and an active industry evangelist for the digitally-oriented audience measurement and targeting company.

Prior to Quantcast, he served as VP, Advertising Product & Strategy, for Boston-based Brightcove, Inc. Previously, he was SVP, Director of Innovation & Strategy for Mediavest Worldwide, and Senior Partner/Director, Media Strategy for The Digital Edge (now Wavemaker).

In earlier roles, Gerber served as VP, Associate Media Director at Ammirati Puris Lintas; Account Manager/Interactive Marketing for America Online and Media Supervisor/Media Planner for both JWT and D’Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles. He began his career as a paralegal at Sidley & Austin in Washington, DC.

Evan Giamanco is senior vice president of sales strategy and operations at CNN Digital. In this role, Giamanco is responsible for the development and execution of CNN Digital’s advertising strategy and ad product development efforts. Based in New York, he reports to Christine Cook, senior vice president & chief revenue officer of CNN Digital.

Giamanco plays a key role in creating a holistic sales approach across CNN’s digital business, which includes premium verticals, mobile products, programmatic, emerging businesses and Great Big Story, while also strategizing digital revenue and product development opportunities that are in line with the company’s go-to-market strategies.

Before taking on his current role, Giamanco served as vice president of news content partnerships at Turner Ignite, where he developed innovative advertising solutions and powerful branded content campaigns across the company’s news brands.

Giamanco was previously vice president of business operations at SimpleReach, a company that specializes in providing content creators with measurement and optimization capabilities across digital and social channels. There, he built an operations team from the ground up, while leading campaign management and marketing across the company. Prior to SimpleReach, Giamanco was vice president of Business Insider Studios & ad strategy at Business Insider, and spent over nine years of his career at People.com, where he established his digital background.

Giamanco has a Bachelor of Business Administration in marketing and e-commerce from Fordham University, as well as a Master of Business Administration in marketing and e-commerce from St. John’s University.

WarnerMedia is a leading media and entertainment company that creates and distributes premium and popular content from a diverse array of talented storytellers and journalists to global audiences through its consumer brands including: HBO, HBO Now, HBO Max, Warner Bros., TNT, TBS, truTV, CNN, DC Entertainment, New Line, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Turner Classic Movies and others.

Warner Media is part of AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T).

Ethan Gibel is a dynamic and driven marketing professional with a passion for change and innovation. Born and raised in Harlem, New York, Ethan’s entrepreneurial spirit was ignited at a young age. Fueled by his desire to make a difference, he pursued a degree in Communications from St. Lawrence University. With a keen eye for emerging trends and a deep understanding of consumer behavior, he aims to establish himself as a visionary marketer in present and future industries.

Alanna is Head of Advertising Technology at ConsenSys, a blockchain company focused on the adoption of decentralized networks and economies. She is also the CEO of the Digital Asset Trade Association (DATA), an advocacy group formed in Davos in 2018 for Distributed Ledger Technology. DATA helps to shape public policy issues to support the growth of digital assets, digital identity, smart-contracts and digital currencies and worked extensively in Wyoming and Colorado on blockchain and cryptocurrency legislation. Prior to DATA, Alanna was Global CRO at MetaX where she oversaw product creation, strategy, and go-to-market including the adChain and adToken dApps on Ethereum and the first Token Curated Registry on the Ethereum Mainnet. Before she entered the blockchain sphere, Alanna ran global advertising standards General Manager of the IAB Tech Lab. Alanna had senior roles at Accuen/Omnicom Media Group, Condé Nast and at Admeld (acquired by Google) where she helped grow Real Time Bidding from an idea into an advertising industry mainstay.

Jae Goodman is Chief Creative Officer and Co-Head of CAA Marketing, a division of leading entertainment and sports agency Creative Artists Agency (CAA). Goodman works in the Los Angeles office and helps provide corporate clients with creative solutions that leverage the power of entertainment to build brands and drive business results. CAA Marketing clients include Coca-Cola, General Motors, Diageo, Chipotle, Samsung, Neiman Marcus, Burberry, Keurig, Fender and The MacArthur Foundation, among others.

CAA Marketing was the driving force behind Hasbro’s Transformers film franchise and Chipotle’s “Cultivate” campaign, including the animated short film “Back to the Start” featuring Willie Nelson covering Coldplay and its follow-up “The Scarecrow.” The campaign has won four Cannes Grand Prix awards in four different categories in the past three years.

CAA Marketing is responsible for the first and second brand films ever accepted to the Sundance Film Festival, the first-ever live interactive show on Hulu, nine Webby Awards in six years for four different clients, and eight Emmy nominations and four wins for such clients as Old Navy, Chipotle, and Dolby.

Prior to CAA, Goodman served as Senior Vice President and Executive Creative Director at Publicis & Hal Riney in San Francisco, overseeing all creative talent and work. Previously, he held creative and executive positions at Wieden+Kennedy, Leagas~Delaney, and Ogilvy & Mather.

Under Goodman’s leadership, CAA Marketing’s work has been selected as one of TED’s “10 Ads Worth Spreading,” and in 2014, Goodman was named to both Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business 1000 and Ad Age’s Creativity 50 List.

Ms. Gorcey overseas product and advertising sales strategy for Condé Nast, where she focuses on turning the company’s unique assets – including data, video, programmatic, and experiential offerings – into buyable solutions that drive results for clients. Eden has held leadership roles in both agency and publisher settings, where her work leading media strategy for brands including P&G, Microsoft and Coca Cola has contributed to her status as an industry-recognized innovator.

Brian Gottesman leads monetization product development at Flipboard — the worlds largest curated content platform, with over 140 million users. In this role he oversees all monetization products from strategy to planning and execution. Prior to his time at Flipboard Brian ran product management for Amazon’s Video DSP, driving revenue growth, verification vendor business development, and feature expansion including pre-bid, performance optimization and OTT targeting. Before Amazon Brian was VP of Product at Critical Media where he designed, launched and managed Syndicaster, the first cloud-based video editing and distribution system for TV stations. He began his career at Harvard University, building web platforms for a range of departments and institutes including the Life Sciences Division, the Center for Brain Science and the Nieman Foundation.

Ben is a graduate of Temple University’s journalism program and has worked in both the publishing industry and higher education as a Digital Producer/Instructional Designer. He specializes in synthesizing complicated information to create approachable and dynamic e-learning content. Ben grew up on a dairy farm in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and now resides in Union City, New Jersey, with his wife and dog. In his free time, Ben spends his time playing basketball, hiking, cooking, and agonizing over Philadelphia sports.

Meredith Guiness is a seasoned insights professional, with nearly 10 years of experience across research, analytics, and digital planning. For the last 3.5 years, she’s been an integral member of the IAB Research & Insights team, providing research-based thought leadership to IAB’s client base of over 700 companies and the wider the digital advertising and marketing ecosystem. Meredith is passionate about data-driven storytelling, bringing to life the meaning (the “why”) behind marketplace trends and the evolving digital media, data, e-commerce, and consumer ecosystems.

Prior to IAB, she spent the majority of her career agency-side at MediaCom, holding positions across digital planning and analytics, and serving clients across a vast range of industries including pharmaceutical, professional/career services, gaming, travel, and non-profit organization management. While at MediaCom, Meredith was responsible for analyzing and consulting clients on digital ad performance/measurement, developing cross-channel measurement plans, and establishing best practices on cross-functional collaboration, among other functions. Meredith holds bachelor’s degrees in Psychology and Italian Studies from Emory University.

Jay Habegger is the co-founder and CEO of ownerIQ. Jay is a pioneer in digital media and advertising having over 20 years experience. He has built The Q from it’s humble beginnings to leading the industry in second party data and as the leading programmatic solution for digital advertisers, retailers and brands. Previously, Jay was the CEO and president of Bitpipe, leading the company through to its sale to TechTarget in 2004 in a $40 million transaction Jay has been a guest speaker at events attended by C-level marketing executives discussing the evolution of digital shopper marketing, retailer monetization, and programmatic advertising. He has also written several bylines for prominent advertising and retail publications such as Ad Age, Internet Retailer, Dealerscope, and TWICE Magazine. In addition, Habegger was acknowledged in The Rayno Report’s 2014 list of Top 11 ad tech visionaries. ownerIQ has been named one of the 50 Fastest Growing Private Companies in Massachusetts by the Boston Business Journal in 2017, as a MITX Award Finalist, in Ad Age’s 2015 B2B Best Awards, Digiday Signal Awards 2015, CIO Review’s 2015 Top 20 Most Promising Retail Technologies and as a Hot Tech to Watch in 2014.

Jeff Hagen is the Group Director of Connections Planning & Investment for The Coca-Cola Company’s USA division. In this role he is responsible for helping build Coca-Cola’s integrated marketing strategy; focusing on building a Brand’s ability to connect with consumers using media, data and technology, and owned touchpoints across a consumer’s daily journey. With 15+ years of experience, Jeff has led both planning & investment teams at Cingular/AT&T Wireless, The Home Depot, and Arby’s. He has also worked at world renowned advertising agencies including BBDO, Initiative and OMD leading media strategy and investment across automotive, consumer packaged goods, financial services and entertainment industry accounts.

Most recently, under his leadership, the Coca-Cola Connections team has been recognized for industry leading work in integrated marketing across video, social, search, outdoor and radio and has received various awards from Effie’s, Media Post, and the Festival of Media.

Jeff lives in Sandy Springs, Georgia with his wife, Leslie, and two daughters. Jeff is an active member of his children’s school, church community and youth sports association.

Rachael Haley, the Regional Marketing Director for the Americas at Airbnb, she oversees strategy and execution of all regional integrated marketing initiatives across all Airbnb businesses. She leads a team responsible for marketing content development, social media strategy and execution, and connections and media activation.

With more than 13 years in the industry, Rachael leans on her deep expertise in media and marketing strategy, including communication planning, strategic partnership development, buy negotiation, plan execution, and measurement, to build innovative marketing campaigns that disrupt the category while driving business results. Prior to Airbnb, Rachael worked in media planning and buying at a number of agencies including OMD before moving into a marketing strategy role at Netflix where she led US launch campaigns for a number of Netflix Originals including House of Cards and Orange is the New Black

Matthew Harrington oversees Edelman’s four regions as well as Edelman Berland, the firm’s research arm; human resources; legal; information technology; and conflict management. A 21-year Edelman veteran, Matthew is a specialist in corporate positioning and reputation management. His expertise includes crisis communications, merger and acquisition activity and initial public offerings. Currently, Matthew provides corporate and/or issues management counsel to a range of clients, including, GE, Charles Schwab & Company, Samsung and Starbucks. Matthew is a graduate of Denison University, where he also serves on the Board of Trustees. He is a member of the Public Relations Society of America and is also a board member of the World Food Program USA, the Council of Public Relations Firms and the Classic Stage Company.

Eric Harris is the President & Chief Operating Officer at Cheddar, the leading post-cable network currently broadcasting Cheddar, a business news network, and Cheddar Big News, a fast-paced, young, non-partisan general news and headline news network. Before Cheddar, Eric was Chief Operating Officer at KnowMe, an innovative video and sharing platform.

Prior to that, Eric was BuzzFeed’s Chief Business Operations Officer and was responsible for all business operations and a global team of over 100 rockstars that spanned sales strategy & planning, marketing, research, events, ad product, account management, ad operations, social discovery, client analytics, and project management. Eric started at BuzzFeed as the 6th employee and left the company of over 1,000 employees 7 years later.

Eric has also worked as VP of Product Management at Operative Media, where he helped to build their best of breed Advertising Management platform, and as Director of Operations at Washingtonpost.com after spending several years doing consulting work at Price Waterhouse.

Eric has an MBA from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University and lives with his wife, two children, and labradoodle in Brooklyn.

Todd Henry is a Senior Product Manager with the IAB Tech Lab. He has 15 years of experience in the digital publishing industry working for Weather Underground, The Weather Company, and IBM. With a background in engineering and product management, Todd’s previous companies include Intuit, Brøderbund Software, and Mattel.

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.

Travis Howe has joined ESPN as SVP, Platform Ad Sales Strategy & Global Operations. In this new role, Howe will be responsible for establishing the go-to-market strategy for ESPN’s digital advertising business moving forward to enhance the overall ESPN Platform. He will work closely with the sales marketing, product and technology teams and be based in the company’s New York office, reporting to Ed Erhardt, president, global sales & marketing.Said Erhardt, “Travis is an outstanding and creative executive who has the vision to identify, develop and execute our key priorities for the digital sales team. His expertise and thorough understanding of the evolving digital media marketplace will help enhance and drive the entirety of our portfolio.”

Howe joins ESPN from Mediaocean, where he served as the executive vice president and general manager of global platform solutions. Throughout his tenure, Howe led the company’s go-to-market, cross-platform strategy, sales and client services supporting digital, cross-media and television ad sales revenue and technology for global media, entertainment and publisher companies.

Prior to Mediaocean, Howe was senior vice president, head of digital ad sales for the Americas at Sony, where he oversaw Sony’s digital entertainment division across Sony Pictures Entertainment, Sony Pictures Television, Sony Music and PlayStation. His previous roles include consulting, operational strategy and change management at Accenture.

Howe currently serves as an executive member of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), as well as for The Paley Center. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the Lighthouse Guild and Chairman of the Music School Advisory Board. He graduated from the University of Colorado, Boulder with a double major in finance and international business.

Larry Hunt leads Video Investment for AT&T at Hearts and Science. Included in his responsibilities are AT&T’s Mobility, Directv and Business to Business Solutions brands in addition to Cricket Wireless.

Prior to joining the Hearts & Science, Larry was Senior Vice President, National Video Investment at Zenith. Over 14 years, Larry’s tenure focused on Verizon Wireless while working across a number of top brands including Sonic Restaurants, Hulu, Hallmark Channel, JP Morgan Chase, Darden Restaurants, and Ubisoft. Prior to Zenith Larry had spent years working at Initiative, True North and Y&R. At those agencies, Larry serviced brands such as Subaru, Jergens, American Airlines, Nortel Networks, US Army, Dr Pepper and Miller Beer.

Larry is a graduate of Baruch College and resides in Cranford, New Jersey with his wife Jennifer, daughter Isabelle and sons Owen and Harrison.

Stuart Ingis, Partner at Venable LLP, is nationally recognized as a leading attorney on privacy, marketing, advertising, eCommerce, and Internet law. He co-leads Venable’s privacy practice, which won the Chambers USA Award for Excellence for the top privacy practice and top advertising practice in the United States. He has also been repeatedly listed in the first tier of privacy attorneys in Chambers USA, Legal 500 and ComputerWorld magazine.

Mr. Ingis regularly represents companies in the media, communications, Internet, information services, advertising, and retail industries before the US Congress and the Federal Trade Commission as well as before other federal and state agencies. He defends companies in investigations by the FTC and State Consumer Protection Authorities. He regularly counsels clients on privacy and marketing issues and practices. He conducts internal assessments of company practices and products, and works with companies to design and implement compliance systems and best practices. He has represented CEOs in testimony before Congressional Committees.

Mr. Ingis brings coalitions together and leads self-regulatory efforts in the eCommerce, online, privacy, and data security space. He serves as general and policy counsel to the Direct Marketing Association, Washington advertising and privacy counsel to the Interactive Advertising Bureau, and general and policy counsel to the Digital Advertising Alliance.

Aimee Irwin serves as VP of Strategy and Partnerships at Experian Marketing Services. Aimee is a skilled strategy and corporate development executive with deep experience in digital marketing and advertising and track record of success in developing and building profitable new digital and mobile businesses at both early stage and public companies. Aimee led strategic partnerships and strategic initiatives for Nielsen’s Marketing Cloud where she negotiated and managed strategic data and identity management partnerships supporting Nielsen’s data targeting and marketing effectiveness businesses. Aimee also served as SVP of Strategy and Partnerships at Verve Mobile, a leading location-based mobile advertising platform. At Verve, Aimee developed and led Verve’s mobile application business and inventory partnerships with hundreds of media companies. Prior to Verve, Aimee was VP of Strategy and Corporate Development at AOL, where she was responsible for strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, and strategic partnerships for AOL’s advertising businesses. Previously, Aimee held executive positions at several successful internet and mobile companies including: Lightningcast, an Internet video advertising company now part of AOL, Leap Wireless, a large U.S. wireless carrier and Backwire, an internet and mobile marketing company acquired by Leap. Aimee started her career in consulting with KPMG and Bain and Company. Aimee has a BS from Georgetown University and an MBA from Kellogg.

Karyn Johnson, President, US Precision, spearheads programmatic strategy, capabilities and operations across Publicis Media brands. Karyn’s eye for innovation, paired with her depth of experience in the digital, media and ad tech spaces, helps her to lead Publicis Media fearlessly into the future programmatic world on behalf of its clients.

With over 15 years of industry experience, Karyn has led innovative campaigns on strategy, digital and ad tech development teams, continuously expanding her knowledge, qualifications and ambition. In her previous role at Blue 449 as EVP, Managing Director – Digital, Karyn was instrumental in developing strategic relationships with leading media, data and technology companies for the agency. She constantly challenged her clients to think differently, and led Blue 449 client T-Mobile to become one of the most digitally savvy brands in the market.

Andy Johnson joined ALC as Chief Data Officer with responsibility for ALC’s data strategy, acquisition and operations. During his 22-year career in the data-driven marketing industry, he has held a variety of marketing, strategic and senior leadership positions with several data services powerhouses. The skills and experience he brings to ALC include managing data strategy to enable data-driven products and advertising solutions that connect data to digital media, creating a unified