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

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Jim Norton was named chief business officer and president of revenue at Condé Nast in October 2016. In this newly created role, Norton oversees all revenue operations for the company’s 22 world-class brands.

Norton has more than 25 years of experience in media sales and marketing, most recently as the global media sales lead at AOL, where he managed a team of more than 1500 people responsible for selling digital content media to advertising agencies and global businesses. Norton’s sales and client service expertise spans programmatic and platform based media, as well as branded content and premium ad experiences – including native, customized content, original video and innovative ad formats.

He was part of the acquisition and integration teams responsible for the partnership with Microsoft Advertising, as well as the sale of AOL to Verizon, and the recently announced intention to acquire Yahoo. Since joining AOL in 2009, Norton held additional senior roles in product sales, managed AOL’s search and sponsored listings business, and AOL’s search and sponsored listings business, and helped launch AOL’s Global Agency Holding Company team.

Prior to AOL, Norton spent three years at Google, where he was the national sales manager for Google’s Agency Activation Team. Previously, Norton spent many years working in traditional media focused on both local and national advertisers. He worked as a sales manager at WLVI-TV and at Boston’s Tribune Broadcasting station and was active on the Tribune leadership team, playing an integral role in the local launch of The CW. Norton also held various sales and marketing positions at Miller Brewing Company and Kiss 108FM in Boston.

Norton currently serves as the vice chairman of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), and will matriculate to chairman in 2017. He is chairman emeritus of the American Advertising Federation (AAF), serves on the Board of Directors for Ad Council and is a former member of the Board of Directors for the Boston Ad Club.

Norton holds both a BA and MBA from Boston College.

Scott Schiller serves as Executive Vice President/General Manager of Advertising Sales, Marketing, within NBCUniversal’s Advertising Sales and Client Partnerships Division. In this role, he oversees the company’s new branded Content Studio, its Portfolio Trade Marketing and Events team and the monetization of key advertising partnerships and products such as Buzzfeed and Vox.

NBCUniversal’s Content Studio capitalizes on the company’s best in-class creative resources, proprietary data and insights, as well as the massive reach and scale of the portfolio to create a center of excellence for video content development and distribution. The company’s Portfolio Trade Marketing and Events team leads the execution of NBCUniversal’s presence and inclusion at all major industry conferences and facilitates relationships with key industry trade organizations.

Schiller’s leadership and direction contributes significantly to the success of NBCU’s Advertising Sales Marketing Division which specializes in the development of rich, research-based, data-centric marketing strategies for its marketing and advertising clients, and distributes them across the media landscape, including NBCUniversal’s array of digital, broadcast, and cable platforms.

Previously, Schiller directed and managed NBCU’s digital sales efforts for entertainment, lifestyle, news, and Hispanic brands including unique properties such as Fandago and E!Online, with offerings that included original digital content development, social media, and data programs. He led the creation and development of a rigorous training program for all sales and marketing personnel on convergence, the selling of digital and TV together.

Schiller joined Comcast/NBCUniversal in 2009 as head of Comcast’s digital advertising sales. Subsequently, as Executive Vice-President of Digital Advertising Sales for NBCUniversal, he reorganized, aligned, and expanded six separate groups culminating in 50% year-over-year growth of digital video in the 2015-16 upfront marketplace. Through his leadership, his teams introduced a variety of effective leading advertising products such as digital video, content marketing, social marketing, data, and programmatic.

Prior to NBCUniversal, Schiller spent more than 20 years in marketing, sales management, and media for iconic industry giants, as well as innovative start-ups, including AOL, Disney/ABC, MTV Networks, Prodigy, and Sony.

He is a founder, four-time board member, and on the executive committee of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), and was its first vice-chairman. Schiller is the Chairman of the IAB’s Digital Media Sales Certification program, which has tested and graduated more than 5000 sales professionals since its introduction.

Schiller earned a BA in Economics from Cornell University. He has an MBA in Marketing/ Finance from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Additionally, he has created, led, and currently speaks to graduate and undergraduate classes on digital media and marketing trends and developments. He is an active advisor to Cornell’s Department of Communication and Unigo, the college services company.

Giving back is important to Schiller. He is on the Board of Directors for the Make-A-Wish Foundation/Metro New York, and is a member of its Governance and CEO Search Committees.

JAs the visionary behind Collective, Joe brings 15+ years in founding, board and executive management experience. Before founding Collective Joe served as CEO of Falk eSolution’s Falk North America. Previous to Falk he was the Executive Vice President at Eyeblaster, responsible for global sales and marketing leading the company to become the #1 rich media technology provider as measured by Nielsen NetRatings AdRelevance, with over 400 agency and 500 publisher customers worldwide. Earlier in his career he served as Senior Vice President, North American Sales Operations at 24/7 Real Media, for 24/7 Mail, 24/7 Network, and 24/7 Media Canada on multiple product lines including Online Media, Email, Promotions, Loyalty Programs, and Wireless Advertising.

Most recently, Joe was named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for the Metro NY area.

David J. Moore is Chairman of Xaxis and President of WPP Digital. In both roles, he seeks to accelerate Xaxis’ and WPP Digital’s growth worldwide. Dave has over 35 years of experience in media and technology. He finds new ways of making technologies work for marketers – from the early ad networks to search engine marketing, behavioral targeting, and today’s opportunity: big data. He founded and led 24/7 Media’s (now Xaxis) growth from start-up to a leader in digital marketing and ad technology. He is a seasoned executive with expertise in all facets of the digital advertising industry. He is a member of the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s (IAB’s) Board of Directors and Executive Committee. Previously the IAB’s Chairman from 2009 to 2011, Dave has been an active member since 2002. He also serves on the boards of DASL and DTSI, which are both joint ventures with Dentsu in Japan and Korea; the Board of Directors of the Advertising Education Foundation (AEF), and on the Board of Directors for Visible Technologies, an industry leading provider of social media monitoring and engagement solutions. Dave is a triathlete and has run the last 12 NYC Marathons.

As Chief Client Officer, Dave Morris is responsible for driving the revenue strategy for CBS Interactive. This includes the management of advertising programs across the company, as well as overseeing a go-to-market sales strategy that supports the company’s revenue plan. As CCO, Morris works closely with his counterparts at CBS TV to develop exciting cross platform opportunities for CBS’ customers.

In addition, Morris sits on the board of directors at the Interactive Advertising Bureau.

Morris joined CNET Networks in 2007 as Senior Vice President of Network Sales, where he was responsible for overseeing the company’s corporate sales accounts. CNET Networks was acquired by CBS Corporation in June 2008.

A veteran of Time Inc., Morris has more than 20 years of marketing, sales, and publishing experience. Prior to CNET Networks, Morris was President and Publisher of Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, where he led the publication and website to record profits and audience numbers.

Prior to Entertainment Weekly, Morris was Publisher of Sports Illustrated. As Publisher, he also directed the advertising sales for the magazine’s bonus editorial sections (including SI Golf Plus), SI’s custom publishing arm, Sports Illustrated Presents, as well as its home on the Internet, SI.com. Before becoming a Time Inc. veteran, he was a sales representative for Parents magazine and a media planner at SSC&B (now Lowe Worldwide).

Vivek Shah is CEO of Ziff Davis, Inc., a leading digital media company specializing in the technology market. Shah was formerly group president, digital for Time Inc.’s news, business and sports properties, which include Time.com, Life.com, CNNMoney.com, SI.com, FanNation.com, Golf.com and SIKids.com.

Previously, Shah served as president of the Fortune/Money Group, which included the magazines Fortune, Money and Fortune Small Business and the website CNNMoney.com. Prior to that, Shah served as president of digital publishing of the group where he oversaw the launch of CNNMoney.com, the Web’s largest vertical business site.

Previously, Shah was the general manager of the group, functioning as its senior financial and business development executive, helping to develop and implement strategy and manage day-to-day operations. Prior to that, Shah was the vice president of new business ventures of the group, where he was responsible for launching and managing a portfolio of new businesses.

Shah has been named Online Publisher of the Year by MIN and Innovator of the Year by BtoB’s Media Business. Shah was also named to Folio magazine’s Thirty under 30 list and Crain’s Forty under 40 list. He has a B.A. in political science from Tufts University.

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

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

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

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

Lauren Wiener is the President of Buyer Platforms at Tremor Video, where she leads business strategy, revenue generation and marketing for the company’s demand-side platform. Her two decades of experience partnering with the world’s leading brands on the buy-side and sell-side inform her strategic vision of developing data-driven software solutions for video advertising effectiveness. Under Lauren’s leadership, Tremor Video has seen record-breaking sales growth of the buyer platform’s first-to-market All-Screen Video offering and was named a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™: Video Advertising Demand-Side Platforms (DSPs), Q4 2015 evaluation by Forrester Research Inc.

Prior to Tremor Video, Lauren was a key driver of innovation and revenue growth at fast-growing media and technology companies, as well as a corporate development expert and strategy consultant at several premier global firms. She spent nearly a decade at Meredith Corporation, building Meredith Digital from the ground up through organic growth and acquisitions. During Lauren’s tenure, monthly reach expanded from 5 million to 40 million. Prior to Meredith, Lauren held general management, business development, and sales leadership positions at Primedia, Star Media Network, and MTV Networks; and worked as a strategy consultant at Boston Consulting Group.

Lauren was named one of Business Insider’s 30 most powerful women in mobile advertising in 2015. Her previous accolades include the Media Industry Newsletter’s (MIN) Digital Hall of Fame in 2010 and American Advertising Federation (AAF) Advertising Hall of Achievement in 2007, both in recognition of an exemplary pioneering role in digital.

In her free time, Lauren lends her expertise to various boards, with current positions on the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) and International Radio and TV Society.

Lauren lives in New York with her husband and is a proud soccer and theatre mom to two girls. Lauren holds a B.A. in history from Yale University and an M.B.A from Harvard Business School.

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Lee Brown is Chief Revenue Officer at BuzzFeed where he leads all US advertising revenue, client services, and advertising operations.

Lee came to BuzzFeed from Tumblr and Groupon, where he built their national sales organization from scratch and secured a number of key accounts. Before that, Lee spent 10 years at Yahoo, beginning as a Senior Account Executive and advancing to Vice President of East Coast Sales. His regional sales team generated close to half of Yahoo’s North America media revenue from customers in every industry vertical and across search, video, mobile and social advertising. He currently serves on the board of the Ad Council and is an occasional guest lecturer at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.

Lee is a native of Kentucky and resides in Bedford, NY with his wife and three children.

Seth Dallaire is the Vice President of Global Advertising Sales at the Amazon Media Group (AMG). He is responsible for growing the advertising business across Amazon.com, its owned and operated properties as well as the mobile and Kindle platforms worldwide. He was promoted from leading the North American Advertising Sales business at AMG in October 2014.

Dallaire joined Amazon in February of 2012 from Yahoo! where he was the Vice President of Global Accounts and Agencies. At Yahoo! his responsibilities included management of the Company’s programmatic sales efforts as well as Mid-Market and Inside Sales teams. Prior to Yahoo! he led Microsoft’s Central US media sales teams and its National Retail Sales organization.

This is his second tenure at Amazon. His previous role at the Company was in the Business Development group.

Dallaireholds a BA from Vassar College and an MBA from New York University.He lives in San Francisco with his wife Courtney and son Dashiell (10).

As president of Acxiom’s Audience Solutions Division, Rick Erwin drives the strategy, growth and profitability of Acxiom’s industry-leading data products and services. With over two decades in the traditional and digital marketing industries, Rick is a leading voice in the field of data-driven marketing and an outspoken advocate for its value in the global economy.

Prior to joining Acxiom, Rick spent 10 years as president of the Consumer Insights and Targeting Division of Experian Marketing Services. During his tenure, he led the turnaround and growth of seven legacy data and analytics businesses, and established the company as a force in the digital marketing services industry. Prior to Experian, Rick held numerous senior management roles in his 12-year career at RR Donnelley in that company’s Marketing Services Division.

Rick earned his master’s degree in business administration from Northwestern University (Kellogg), and holds a bachelor’s degree in marketing from Michigan State University. He is a past Vice Chairman, Treasurer and current director of the Direct Marketing Association (DMA), and also serves as a director for Chicago Youth Centers, SheddAquarium and RevSpring, Inc.

John Frelinghuysen is Executive Vice President, Digital Media, Strategy and Business Development, Disney|ABC Television, reporting in to Ben Sherwood, President, Disney|ABC Television and Co-Chair, Disney Media Networks.

Mr. Frelinghuysen oversees all aspects of strategy and business development across Disney|ABC Television’s portfolio of brands for digital content, products and technology, as well as all mobile platform efforts. He is charged with defining and executing plans to effectively monetize both new and existing short-form and long-form content and distribution across multiple screens and platforms.

Mr. Frelinghuysen is a respected industry executive with over 20+ years of experience focused on digital strategy, growth and monetization, as well as complex problem solving. Most recently, Mr. Frelinghuysen served as Senior Vice President & Head of Strategy for AOL. Prior to that he worked in the management-consulting sector where he was a Partner in the Media, Entertainment, and Information Practice at Bain & Company, one of the world’s leading management consulting firms. He began his career at Booz Allen Hamilton, ultimately serving as Lead Partner and Practice Leader, U.S. Media and Entertainment.

Mr. Frelinghuysen is an alumnus of Princeton University and holds an MBA in Marketing/International Business from the Columbia Business School.

Keith A. Grossman is Global Chief Revenue Officer for the Bloomberg Media Group, Bloomberg L.P.’s global multi-platform media organization that comprises web, mobile, television, digital video, radio, print magazines and live events platforms.

Since joining Bloomberg L.P. in July 2014, Keith has coordinated Bloomberg’s advertising sales for a new suite of digital assets and worked to align Bloomberg’s content offerings to global business, targeting new consumers.

Prior to Bloomberg, Keith was Associate Publisher of WIRED and Ars Technica, where he led the team that conceived of and implemented Ars Technica’s ‘The Accelerator,’ a platform that predicts when a particular piece of content will go viral and allows advertisers to take advantage of the traffic. The Accelerator was awarded AdWeek’s Project Isaac Award for Best Digital Publishing Invention.

In his more than a decade at Conde Nast, Grossman became the youngest employee in the company’s history to be name Sales Person of the Year and later became one of the youngest Associate Publishers. In 2008, Grossman was included in MIN magazine’s Upshot list and, in 2010, he was named to MIN’s 15 to Watch Under 30 for his work co-authoring the original business model for Conde Nast’s Tablet Editions which were adopted throughout the company. In both 2014 and 2015, Keith was named to The Adweek 50 List.

Keith is a graduate of Cornell University and lives in NYC.

Jed Hartman became chief revenue officer of the Washington Post Company on December 15, 2014. Mr. Hartman leads the print and digital advertising teams, as well as the conference business, and oversee advertising for targeted products and special sections. He reports to Stephen P. Hills, president of The Washington Post, and splits time between Washington, D.C. and New York.

Mr. Hartman was previously group publisher for Time, time.com, Fortune, fortune.com, Money, and money.com, overseeing worldwide ad sales and marketing. Under his leadership, Fortune was named number six on the 2012 Advertising Age A-list. He also expanded Fortune’s booming conference business by bringing in record sponsorship dollars. In 2014, Hartman led the responsive design launches of fortune.com and money.com, as well as the re-launch of time.com, incorporating a successful native advertising platform across all three sites. Media Industry News (MIN) named him Publisher of the Year for 2014.

Prior to joining Time Inc., Mr. Hartman served as publisher of The Week and TheWeek.com from November 2007 to April 2010. Under his leadership, The Week was one of only a few media properties to achieve extraordinary advertising growth in 2009 and was included in both the Advertising Age A-list and the Mediaweek Hot List that year. Hartman also oversaw sales and marketing for both the launch and re-launch of TheWeek.com and led the site to profitability in its first year. Before his time at The

Week, he spent nine years at Time Inc. He began as an account manager for Fortune and was promoted to sales director for the Fortune/Money group in 2001, where he managed the New York sales team until
2007.

Mark Howard is Senior Vice President of Digital Advertising Strategy at Forbes Media. In this role, he heads up digital ad strategy, focusing on leading the introduction of the Company’s new and highly innovative advertising products to the marketplace. Previously he was SVP of Digital Ad Sales.

Mr. Howard also held the position of Vice President of Digital Advertising Sales for Forbes Media, responsible for leading the global sales team in their online sales efforts as well leading the Western Region team in their integrated sales efforts. He was also charged with developing the corporate digital sales strategy, which included new product development, creation and development of audience extension programs and strategic planning.

Mr. Howard joined Forbes Media as a Regional Sales Manager in 2002. During his time at Forbes he has held the positions of West Coast Digital Sales Director and West Region Director of Integrated Sales.

Prior to joining Forbes Media, Mr. Howard has held sales positions at Inc. and Fast Company magazines as well E-Trade Financial. He began his career as a media planner at Anderson & Lembke. He is a graduate of the University of Arizona with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Marketing and currently resides in New York.

As Chief Marketing Officer of AOL Inc., Allie leads the global marketing strategy for the company’s corporate efforts, advertising platforms and content marketing solutions group. Previously, she served as Chief Marketing Officer for the AOL Platforms family of brands, leading global marketing and communications for AOL’s industry-leading advertising and technology arm.

Allie came to AOL from 33Across, a big data and social graph company that works with Fortune 1000 advertisers and the world’s largest publishers, where she served as CMO. Prior to her time at 33Across, she was the VP of Marketing for Brand Affinity Technologies, where she oversaw the endorsement platform’s marketing and over 6,500 athlete and celebrity relationships.

Allie is a recipient of the ad:tech Industry Achievement Award and proudly sits on the board of AOL’s Charitable Foundation. She is an industry veteran who has led brand management and marketing strategy for technology-focused organizations for over fifteen years. Allie received her B.A. in Corporate Communications from Ithaca College. She and her husband live in Washington, D.C. with their two children. A devoted Celtics fan, she spends every other year in mourning for what could have been.

Meredith Kopit Levien was named executive vice president of advertising for The New York Times in July 2013. Ms. Kopit Levien is responsible for the generation of all advertising revenue from The Times’s multiplatform products and services and for leadership of the global advertising sales team.

Before joining The Times, she was the chief revenue officer at Forbes Media, where she led the North American and European revenue operations for Forbes.com, the Forbes

Magazine Group and Forbes Conferences since 2011.

Ms. Kopit Levien began her professional career in 1993 at the Advisory Board Company in Washington, DC. From 1999 to 2001, she served as an account manager and director of new business for the digital advertising agency and web site development firm, I33 Communications. Before joining Forbes in 2010 as vice president and publisher of ForbesLife and ForbesWoman.com, she held various senior and strategic advertising sales positions at The Atlantic Media Company from 2001 to 2008.

Ms. Kopit Levien received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Virginia in 1993.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kirk McDonald is a media and technology veteran with over 20 years of professional experience with some of the world’s leading brands and software technology providers.

Kirk joined PubMatic in October 2011, bringing with him a proven track record of leadership success and experience across a range of premier media brands. As President of the company, Kirk is driving the next stage of PubMatic’s growth as the leading marketing automation software platform that powers the programmatic advertising strategy of premium publishers.

Before joining PubMatic, Kirk was President of Digital at Time Inc., where he brought together the company’s digital assets to deliver audience and brand advertising solutions to clients. Prior to this corporate role, he was the Chief Advertising Officer of the Fortune|Money Group, where he oversaw worldwide advertising sales, integrated marketing, and the events business. Kirk was also the Senior Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Client Services for DRIVEpm and Atlas, both of which were key units of Microsoft’s advertising business. In addition, Kirk spent nine years at CNET, where he was the Senior Vice President of network sales, and developed hugely successful strategic partnerships with the top tier of technology marketers. Earlier in his career, he held sales and marketing roles at Ziff Davis and Condé Nast.

Kirk serves on several professional and not-for-profit boards. He was a former advisor on the LUMA Partners board and is currently the Chairman of a non-profit, Code Interactive, www.weare.ci, which is focused on inspiring the next generation of technology leaders from underserved communities.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sridhar Ramaswamy oversees all of Google’s Ads and Commerce products, which include search, display and video advertising, analytics, shopping, payments, and travel. Joining Google as an engineer since 2003, he’s been an integral part of the growth of AdWords and Google’s advertising business.

Prior to joining Google, Sridhar was a Director of Engineering for the analytics platform at E.piphany. He also held research positions at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, and Bell Communications Research (Bellcore).

Sridhar earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, and his master’s of science and PhD in computer science from Brown University. He has published numerous papers on database systems and database theory, and holds several patents in that area.

As President of AppNexus and member of the Board of Directors, Michael has been a chief architect of the company’s growth from startup to global technology leader. In his role as President, he leads the global commercial, market development, marketing and communications functions and spearheads international expansion and strategic partnerships. Prior to joining AppNexus, Michael was a longstanding executive at DoubleClick, where he founded and served as General Manager of DoubleClick Ad Exchange, an instrumental component of the company’s $3.2 billion sale to Google in 2007. Michael is on the Board of Directors of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and is a regular speaker at industry conferences including Cannes Lions, AdExchanger I/O and ExchangeWire, and at New York-area business forums and schools.

Michael holds a BA from McGill University and an MBA from Columbia Business School. He is a member of the Silicon Alley 100, and serves on the board of Global Cities, a Bloomberg Philanthropy, and UJA-Federation of New York’s Digital Media Executive Committee.

Samantha Skey is a digital media innovator- currently president and chief revenue officer for SheKnows Media, a New York City-based women’s media company that believes in ‘women inspiring women’. Samantha is responsible for advertising products, revenue generation, and corporate marketing and brand development.

A frequent presenter and commentator for business and trade media, Skey’s speaking events include annual Ad Week panel moderation, the Gamification Summit of 2011, the Physic Ventures-Edelman Social Media Summit 2011, SheStreams 2011, OMMA Global New York 2011, and ad:tech conference 2011. In an authored Advertising Age article, Skey advised companies on how to reach millennial moms. She said that this generation of mothers (those born after 1980) are wallet-driven activists who consider both family health and environmental sustainability when making purchases. “The Millennial mom has different expectations for the brands she supports and demands transparency and authenticity both from the brand’s on- and offline efforts.

Skey helped develop Riddler, one of the web’s first real-time, multi-player, reward-based gaming sites at Interactive Imaginations. She has served in management positions at The Walt Disney Company and CNET, was the chief marketing officer at Passenger, Inc. and is a member of the founding executive team of Alloy, Inc., where she served as executive vice president of strategic marketing.

Skey sits on the boards of ad:tech, The Earth Adoption Agency, SmartyPants, Ltd., YouthNoise and The Bronx Academy of Letters.

Skey holds a BA in comparative literature from Hamilton College.

Brad Smallwood has 20 years of experience developing and running both on-and offline marketplaces. At Facebook his responsibilities include three major areas.

•Identifying the best way to utilize all the information about the user to make advertising more relevant and effective.
•Measuring the impact of advertising both on immediate actions that users take (performance oriented campaigns) and the long-term more attitudinal changes that occur (brand lift)
•Day to day management of Facebook’s worldwide inventory including pricing, inventory controls, and running of the online marketplace

Prior to joining Facebook, Mr. Smallwood was the GM of Yahoo’s multi-billion dollar display advertising marketplace.While there he worked to bring several 3rd party demand channels in to help strengthen the industry leading Yahoo marketplace, including the Right Media acquisition. With companies like Namezero, AllAdvantage, and Revcubehe developed a series of state of the art ad targeting and ad serving techniques including the first behavioral targeting system and an integrated platform for online campaign management across search, display, email, creative, and landing page optimization.Prior to his transition to online Mr. Smallwood was one of the early innovators in the pricing space developing and running the pricing and revenue management systems for a variety of industries including airlines, hotels, and shipping.

As global head of sales, Jeremy Steinberg oversees advertising sales efforts across all platforms and sales channels at The Weather Company, including U.S. and international sales, programmatic sales, agency partnerships and development, sales strategy, marketer solutions, and account management. Under his purview, he is responsible for driving overall ad revenue growth, and client and agency partnerships. Jeremy is based in New York.

Previously, Jeremy was senior vice president of ad sales, where he led national sales across all screens, including The Weather Channel, weather.com, mobile and tablet apps. In that role, he also oversaw programmatic sales along with agency partnerships and development, and mid-market sales.

Prior to that, Jeremy was senior vice president of digital ad sales and responsible for the digital sales efforts for The Weather Company as well as revenue across weather.com, wunderground, and The Weather Channel mobile and tablet apps.
Jeremy joined Weather from FOX News, where he was vice president of digital sales and business development for FOX News and FOX Business Network. There, he oversaw all revenue generation, sales marketing and operations across the FOX News Digital Network properties, including FOXNews.com, FOXBusiness.com, FOXNewsLatino.com, FOX News and FOX Business .Mobisites, and iOS and Android phone and tablet applications.

Jeremy joined FOX News in 2001, where he began as a cable sales assistant before being promoted to cable sales planner. He was then named director of digital media sales and launched the sales department for FOXNews.com, before being promoted to his final role there. Jeremy began his career as a sales assistant at News Digital Media, a division of News Corporation.

Jeremy is a board member of the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) and serves on the UJA-Federation of New York’s digital media executive committee. He received a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Michigan.

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

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

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

Jacob Weisberg, 48, is Chairman of The Slate Group, a unit of The Washington Post Company devoted to developing a family of Internet-based publications through start-ups and acquisitions. The Slate group’s roster includes Slate, The Root, and the video site Slate V.

A native of Chicago, Weisberg attended Yale University and New College, Oxford. From 1989 until 1994, he worked as a writer and editor at The New Republic. Between 1994 and 1996, he covered politics for New York Magazine. In 1996, he joined the new Internet magazine Slate, where he covered the 1996 and 2000 presidential campaigns as Chief Political Correspondent.

Weisberg served as Editor of Slate from 2002 until 2008. He has also been a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, a contributing editor of Vanity Fair, and a reporter for Newsweek in London and Washington.

Weisberg is the author of several books, including The Bush Tragedy, which was a New York Times bestseller in 2008. With former Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin, he co-wrote In an Uncertain World, which was published in 2003. His first book, In Defense of Government, was published in 1996.

His regular opinion column is published by Slate. In addition, Weisberg is a member of the Financial Times A-List board of contributors, and a contributing editor for Vogue. He serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the PEN American Center and the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Rick Welday is the president of AT&T AdWorks, the advertising sales division of AT&T. Welday leads a team that works directly with national brand clients and media agencies to develop and execute advanced TV and digital advertising campaigns that reach target audiences across TV, mobile and online.

Most recently, Welday has held positions leading the Customer Care organization, ATT.com and integration efforts combining Mobility and Wired businesses.

In a prior role, he served as the Chief Marketing Officer for AT&T’s consumer segment, with responsibility for all marketing of consumer, broadband and television service including the launch of AT&T U-Verse Service. He also served as Senior Vice President-Sales for AT&T Yellow Pages and Internet Yellow Page services, Vice President-Advertising and Sponsorship, and held a variety of senior roles across Marketing and Network Services.

During his 25-year career with AT&T (previously SBC and Southwestern Bell), Welday has held two international assignments in Mexico and Switzerland. He worked to expand call centers and improve customer service with Telmex while living in Mexico City. He later served as President of the AT&T business in Switzerland, then the largest mobile competitor to Swisscom.

Welday graduated from Baylor University in 1990 with a double major in Finance and Management. He and his family live in Dallas, TX. His wife is a former Baylor graduate, and his oldest son is currently a student at Baylor University. Welday has been active in church, Young Life, and served on a variety of boards and committees in the communities he has lived, including the Arthritis Foundation, United Way and the Baylor Business School.

Troy Young is president of Hearst Magazines Digital Media. In this position, Young oversees the digital content, technology, operations, product and business development strategies for the magazine division’s 26 online brands, which total more than 60 million unique visitors and 640 million page views monthly.

Hearst Magazines Digital Media manages 26 websites for brands such as Cosmopolitan, Popular Mechanics, ELLE, ELLE DECOR, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Marie Claire and Seventeen, as well as digital-only sites such as Delish.com, a food site in partnership with MSN; MisQuinceMag.com; and RealBeauty.com.

Prior to Hearst, Young, a digital media executive and entrepreneur with 20 years of experience in digital publishing and advertising, was president of Say Media. He joined Say (previously VideoEgg) in its early stages and shaped its corporate, product and brand strategy, built and led the marketing, sales and editorial organizations, and oversaw acquisitions. Young developed the content portfolio to include fast-growing brands xoJane, Remodelista and ReadWrite and created a groundbreaking advertising approach and engagement pricing model, growing the company to $100 million in revenue.

Before Say, Young was chief experience officer of the Omnicom digital agency Organic, advising on strategy and creating award-winning work for clients including American Express, Virgin Mobile, Sirius XM, Chrysler and Bank of America. He has held board and advisory roles with a number of digital media, mobile and commerce companies, including Refinery29, the digital media and ecommerce website in which Hearst is an investor, BuzzMedia (now Spinmedia), a digital publisher of pop culture and music brands, and ticketing and e-commerce platform CrowdSurge.

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

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

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

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

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

Stuart Ingis, a 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.

Rich LeFurgy has been a board member, advisor or investor in over 55 online advertising companies, drawing from over a 30 year career in advertising. LeFurgy was Founding Chairman of the IAB and sfBIG, a Venture Capitalist (WaldenVC), head of ad sales at Starwave (ESPN.com) and the Walt Disney Internet Group. Prior to Starwave, LeFurgy had a 17 year career at traditional ad agency NWAyer in New York, working on clients AT&T, Proctor & Gamble, Avon, Gillette and Dupont, among others.

He started online advertising business accelerator Archer in 2004, helping early stage online advertising companies reach takeoff velocity with strategic advisory services in fundraising, trade marketing and sales. LeFurgy received ad:tech’s Industry Achievement Award (2008), the IAB’s Lifetime Achievement Award (2004), was inducted into Advertising Age’s Interactive Hall of Fame (2000). He was recognized by USA Today as the “Johnny Appleseed of online advertising”.

LeFurgy has served on company boards as a director, including Blue Lithium and Associated Content (both sold to Yahoo!) and Web Clients (sold to ValueClick), and is currently on the board of Placecast. He has also provided advisory services to large and small online advertising companies (Google, AOL, Blue Lithium, Glam, and Placecast) and has personally invested in a number of promising online advertising startups, such as Klout, Ad Relevance (sold to Nielsen NetRatings), Grouper/Crackle (sold to Sony) and Blue Lithium (sold to Yahoo!), among others.

John is the Group Vice President of Finance for Time Warner Cable Media in New York, serving as the finance lead for TWC’s $1 billion advertising arm.

Prior to this role, John spent a year establishing TWC’s change management function as Group Vice President of Operational Effectiveness. John coordinated process improvement activities across the company. John previously spent six years as a leader in TWC’s Corporate Finance group, including three years heading up TWC’s investor relations support and competitive analysis activities as Vice President of Financial Analysis and Special projects, as well as three years in charge of TWC’s Corporate Financial Planning and Analysis team.

John’s broad media finance background includes four years at Cablevision, seven years at CBS and five years at NBC, all with progressive management responsibilities. John also spent three years as a mid-career management consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton, advising a variety of clients both inside and outside the media industry.

John holds a bachelor’s degree in Government from Harvard University, and an MBA from Columbia Business School. He and his wife Kristin have three children and live in Westport, CT.