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.

Jeff Collins serves as the executive vice president of advertising sales for FOX News Media. In this capacity, Collins oversees advertising sales for all of FOX News Media, including FOX News Channel, FOX Business Network, FOX News Digital and FOX Weather. He joined the company from Viant Technology in May 2019.

As Chief Revenue Office for Viant, Collins oversaw all revenue for the company and its subsidiaries including, Specific Media, Vindico, Myspace and Xumo. After joining Viant in 2014, Collins was responsible for developing key digital marketing and emerging media strategies, which resulted in the company repeatedly exceeding revenue targets. In 2016, Collins helped manage the integration of Viant into the Time Inc. business following their acquisition of the company. As part of Viant’s senior leadership team, Collins managed a global sales team of 120 across 12 domestic and international offices.

Previously, Collins spent 18 years with Turner Broadcasting where he held sales and leadership positions across many of the Time Warner brands. As Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, he oversaw all east coast sales representing 70 percent of the revenue across the CNN properties including, CNN, HLN, CNN Airport and CNN Digital.

A graduate of the University of Delaware with a degree in political science and minor in economics, Collins began his career with CNN as a sales assistant in 1996.

Christine has 15 years of experience in digital advertising sales. She joined MSLO in July 2006 from IAC Partner Marketing, where she served as Vice President, Sales, managing an 82-person team and bearing responsibility for national advertising revenue across such IAC sites as CitySearch, Evite.com, Expedia, Match.com and Ticketmaster.

Previously, Christine served as Director, Consumer Advertising at the Financial Times. Prior to that, she spent five years at The New York Times Digital in various sales executive roles, culminating in her position as Vice President, International and founder of nytimes.com’s first international sales office in London.

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.

Joy Robins is the global chief advertising officer of The New York Times Company, where she leads all facets of its advertising business and guides the strategy and revenue generation of the entire global advertising team, and T Brand Studio, the content studio within New York Times advertising. Joy joined the Times Company in May 2023 and reports directly to President and Chief Executive Officer Meredith Kopit Levien.


An accomplished leader with 20 years of experience, Joy is a strategic expert at applying innovative advertising models at scale to enhance consumer products. With her extensive background in media, Joy has a reputable presence in the ad and media industry and brings a strong understanding of subscription business model dynamics. Joy drives innovation and leadership in partnership with New York Times advertising’s unmatched team — as they showcase the power and value of The Times’s essential subscription bundle to brands and marketers.


Joy has held a variety of advertising and leadership roles. Prior to joining the Times Company, she served as chief revenue officer at The Washington Post since 2019, leading advertising and subscriptions revenue. Before The Washington Post, Joy led advertising teams at Quartz for more than five years, most recently serving as global chief revenue officer, and previously held leadership positions at NBC News Digital, BBC Worldwide, The Weather Channel and OMD. Joy is on the board of the Ad Council and the MMA, and was featured on Ad Age’s 2017 40 under 40 and Ad Age’s 2020 Women to Watch lists.


Joy Robins graduated from Rutgers University. She is based in New York.

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


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


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


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

Christy Tanner is the Executive Vice President and General Manager of CBS News Digital. In this role, she oversees CBS News on all digital platforms, including CBSN, CBS News’ digital streaming news network featuring live, anchored coverage across platforms, as well as CBSNews.com, mobile apps and OTT apps.


Under Tanner’s leadership, CBSN continues to drive strong and sustained viewership growth. Drawing an audience with a median age of 37, CBSN has increased viewership every year since launching in 2014 and in June, CBS News Digital delivered its new #1 month of all time for unique visitors. CBSN also delivered its new #1 quarter of all time for streams in Q2 2020, outpacing the previous best Q1 2020. The new records follow strong and sustained momentum for CBSN, which set a new record for monthly streams in March, surpassing 100 million streams for the first time ever in a month.


During her tenure at CBS News Digital, Tanner has spearheaded the expansion of CBSN’s original content slate and continually broadened distribution to make CBSN available on every major platform including an international expansion into 89 countries.


Formerly, Tanner was the Senior Vice President and General Manager of CBS Interactive Media, a group of premier entertainment brands. Tanner joined CBS Interactive through the company’s acquisition of TV Guide Digital, where as CEO she transformed the business for an on-demand, streaming audience. She previously held executive positions with The Washington Post Company, Wolters Kluwer and Reed Elsevier.


Tanner is currently a board member and special advisor to the executive committee of Digital Content Next, the leading trade organization serving premium digital content companies, where she previously served as co-chair from 2015-2017.


Tanner holds a B.A. from Brown University and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.