Speakers

As Director of Communications, Emilee leads digital marketing strategy at Public Democracy, specializing in audience-centric storytelling and engaging hard-to-reach audiences through empathy-driven data. Emilee is a Fulbright alumna and graduate of Davidson College. Emilee is from Black Mountain, North Carolina, but currently lives in Medellín.

Janeen Uzzell is the CEO of NSBE, the largest Black S.T.E.M. community impacting society and industry. Before joining 6 months ago, she was the COO of Wikipedia where she drove process improvement and helped launch the Wikimedia Knowledge Equity Fund to address racial inequities in free knowledge. Janeen’s early career was with GE where she spent 16 years working in healthcare technologies in some of the world’s most challenging environments. She’s lived as an ex-Pat in Africa and worked Globally as a thought leader and partnership collaborator. While at GE she also led the company’s women in technology efforts to accelerate the number of women in technical roles. Janeen has merged her leadership as a global tech executive, and her passion for social justice to forge diversity, equity, and inclusion in technology through product development, leadership advancement, and by shining a light on inequality in tech spaces. She is a recipient of the United Nations Global Leadership Award and recognized by ADWEEK as one of the Top Black Women trailblazers in Tech. She has not however been recognized by any major or minor tennis organization for her tennis skills. Janeen uses her keyboard for good. She comes in peace, but she means business.

Matthew Papa is SVP of Global Partnerships for Captify, the leading Search Intelligence Platform for the open web and the largest independent holder of first-party onsite search data, where he is responsible for managing and growing Captify's publisher and data partners across their 13 global markets. Utilizing Captify’s Search Intelligence platform, Sense, Matthew is helping media companies to harness the power of search data and improve their monetization capabilities. He has worked directly with large-scale media companies ranking in the Comscore top 25, as well as Advertising Agencies, Brands, Demand Platforms, and data technologies ranging from identity management to measurement. An intrapreneur, Matthew has incubated and scaled multiple products throughout his career. Matthew believes in the importance of an open and free internet, and the shared opportunity between media companies, technology platforms and marketers.

Antoine joined Momentive in 2021 to lead the company’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and social impact initiatives. Previously, he was chief diversity, equity, and inclusion officer at Year Up—a nonprofit that helps young adults gain the skills to reach their potential. He also held DEI leadership roles at Gap Inc., Symantec, and Nike, where he built multi-year DEI strategies and held leadership accountable for systemic change. He has expertise in talent development, executive coaching, cultural learning, and social impact and diversity. Antoine is a native of Newark, New Jersey, and a Rutgers-Newark graduate.

Mr. Battelle is co-founder and CEO of Recount Media Inc., a NY-based video first media company. He also serves as chairman of the board at sovrn Holdings, LLC and a Director at LiveRamp, an NYSE listed company. In addition, he is Adjunct Professor and Senior Research Scholar at the School for International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He previously was founder and CEO of six media and technology companies, including Federated Media, the Industry Standard, and Wired. In 2005, Mr. Battelle wrote “The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture” (Penguin/Portfolio). Mr. Battelle holds a bachelor’s degree in anthropology and a master’s degree in journalism from UC Berkeley.

Margo Hock is the VP of Partnerships at AnalyticsIQ and a data industry veteran with over a decade of experience. Margo has worked with major brands, agencies, and platforms across industries throughout her career in data and digital advertising. Margo believes the key to a good client partnership is becoming so engrained in your client’s success that your boss needs to remind you which company you work for. Margo is based in Lincoln, Nebraska where she lives with her husband, 2 children, and 2 dogs.

Emma Grede is the CEO and Co-Founder of Good American [goodamerican.com], the first fully inclusive fashion brand that celebrates all dimensions of female power. In October 2016, Emma launched Good American with Khloé Kardashian to empower all women to celebrate their bodies with confidence and offer high-quality designs in all sizes. What started as the largest denim launch in history, has evolved into an iconic inclusive fashion line of denim, ready-to-wear, swim, shoes and activewear.   Emma is also a founding partner of SKIMS [skims.com], a solutions-oriented brand creating the next generation of inclusive underwear, loungewear and shapewear, and a co-Founder of Safely [getsafely.com], the plant-powered cleaning brand, delivering chemical free cleaning products to the masses. Prior to Good American, Emma worked in entertainment marketing at Inca Productions, and later founded and served as CEO and Chairwoman of ITB Worldwide. In the first decade of her career, she quickly identified the power of forging partnerships with celebrity talent to accelerate a brand’s exposure and strengthen its credibility. Infusing this knowledge and expertise, Emma has carved a new path for the typical retail start up across her brands. In addition to creating her own businesses, Emma is an advocate for driving change and championing diverse and inclusive representation across the industry, which is evident through her work as Chairwoman of Fifteen Percent Pledge [15percentpledge.org] and Board Member of The RealReal [therealreal.com]. Emma serves as an advocate for women’s rights and female empowerment serving as an active trustee and board member of Women for Women International and Baby2Baby.  Born and raised in London, Emma currently lives in Los Angeles and is married to Swedish entrepreneur Jens Grede; together they have four children.

Stewart is the Founder & CEO of Red Pill Analytics and has been building data-driven applications since 1996. He is an internationally recognized writer and speaker in the data and analytics community and holds numerous community advocacy titles including Snowflake Data Superhero, Oracle Groundbreaker Ambassador, and Oracle ACE Director.

Bill Stratton is the Global Head of Snowflake’s largest industry vertical, Media, Entertainment and Advertising. With the industry undergoing a massive consolidation and shift to streaming/OTT, data-driven advertising and an explosion of content, Stratton, who joined Snowflake in 2018, is leading Snowflake’s industry vision, product execution, partnership ecosystem and overall customer success. A seasoned executive and power player at the former Time Warner (Warner Media), he led data strategy, data product & operations, analytics, governance and data monetization. Stratton was an early believer in Snowflake as a customer in 2017 at Warner Media, he now leverages his 25+years of experience to position Snowflake as the technology leader for an ever changing marketplace and a trusted alternative to the big tech/walled gardens. Stratton has set Snowflake on a path to deliver on an open data collaboration platform for the media and advertising industry. Stratton was also a former collegiate swimmer at the University of North Carolina where he was an All-ACC performer and former All-American in high school at the Gilman School.

Julie Anson is the Head of Addressable at Roku, leading strategy and monetization across Addressable and OneView solutions geared towards TV-centric clients. Julie has been at Roku since March 2021, and prior spent time leading IPG’s investment strategy and partnerships for Advanced TV as well as on the client side at NBC News managing media strategy and partnerships. Julie is a graduate of Syracuse University.

Aneesh Raman heads up Strategic Communications at LinkedIn. Previously, he was a Senior Economic Advisor for Governor Gavin Newsom after spending five years in the tech industry, including as Head of Economic impact at Facebook. From 2009-2013, he held multiple positions in the Obama Administration, including as a domestic policy speechwriter to President Barack Obama as well as a speechwriter to the Treasury Secretary during a historic financial crisis. Raman started his career as a CNN correspondent, first in Southeast Asia and then across the Middle East, where he spent two years as a war correspondent in Iraq. A graduate of Harvard, Raman is a former Fulbright scholar, term member at the Council on Foreign Relations and is a member of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library’s New Frontier Award Committee.

Jenny Connelly is a senior digital executive with broad product strategy and digital operations expertise. As PMC’s Executive Vice President of Product & Technology she oversees the engineering, IT, product, project & SEO teams, a group of 75 people. This team ideates, engineers & manages the full technology stack that runs PMC's 25 media brands, including SXSW, Rolling Stone, Variety, Billboard, Women's Wear Daily & more. Jenny joined PMC from Dreamworks NOVA, an enterprise Saas software company that spun out of Dreamworks Animation. Prior to that she was at Live Nation Entertainment, the world’s biggest rock concert company and owner of Ticketmaster, then the world’s 5th largest e-commerce site. At Live Nation she was the Senior Vice President of Digital for Live Nation Studios, responsible for all technology for the company’s new media & content division. Prior to that she was the lead executive tapped to create Live Nation Labs, a start-up incubator within Live Nation Entertainment.

Colin is a veteran privacy technologist and entrepreneur with deep relationships in the technology trade associations as well as the regulatory community. In addition to serving as Founder and Principal of The Lucid Privacy Group, Colin also serves on the Governance Board of the IAB EU’s Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF). Colin was a Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Ghostery/Evidon, where he led product strategy and global policy throughout its formative years, including the scaling of the Ghostery browser extension and the first independent AdChoices technologies.

Dash is a Solutions Engineer with Liveramp. He previously held several different roles at LiveIntent and has worked in various capacities across the digital advertising ecosystem for his whole career. He studied Engineering Physics at Fordham University and has a passion for ad tech and sourdough.

Sharawn Tipton is the Chief People Officer at LiveRamp (NYSE: RAMP), the leading data connectivity platform. Sharawn spearheads LiveRamp’s global people and culture (P&C) strategy and all aspects of P&C programs in support of the company's continued growth一including global talent acquisition, diversity, inclusion and belonging, workplace experience, business partners, talent enablement, total rewards, benefits, HR technology, and people operations. Previously, Sharawn was the Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer at Micron Technology, where she led the diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) and employee relations functions within the people organization. Most notably in this role, she achieved global pay equity for all underrepresented groups and hosted the first employee resource group summit for the company. Sharawn has also established high-impact initiatives and world-class people programs in prior positions at Flextronics, Gensler, and Safeway over her 20-year professional career. In addition to her corporate work, Sharawn devotes time to serving as chairperson of two non-profit boards, College Track Oakland and Fair Pay Workplace, as well as a mentor to first-generation and underrepresented college students. Sharawn is a graduate of California State University, East Bay and holds a master’s degree in human resource management from Golden Gate University. Her accreditations include certifications from Senior Professional Human Resources, Society for Human Resources Management, and Project Management Institute.

Ben Antier is the Co-Founder & CEO of Publica. Publica has designed award winning CTV technology solutions for some of the biggest global streaming publishers in the market. Publica have built & scaled a CTV ad server & market leading header bidding tools for smart tv manufactures and AVOD & FAST streaming services. Publica was acquired by Integral Ad Science in 2021.

Evan is passionate about bringing data-driven decisions to brands and agencies to improve efficacy and minimize waste of marketing and advertising in an increasingly data-driven world. What excites him is increasing the adoption of data-driven methodology to all aspects of the marketing funnel - from market research to performance advertising - to make sure brands are finding and targeting the correct customers. Evan runs Dstillery's Business Development team as Vice President of Strategic Partnerships, focusing on corporate strategy, and data partnerships with both data owners and activation platforms. He joined Dstillery in 2014 and has previously managed partnerships with social platforms LinkedIn and Twitter, and company data strategy. Evan graduated from the University of St Andrews with an MA Honours in International Relations and remains a self-proclaimed foreign policy nerd.

As Senior Account Director for LiveRamp, Sean is focused on leading & growing relationships with some of the largest CPG & Retail brands in the world. In his role Sean works with client executives to align data & identity strategy to an ever changing ecosystem. Prior to joining LiveRamp, Sean spent 5 years at Oracle Data Cloud building vertical specific client facing teams to support Enterprise clients.. Across his professional career, Sean has spent his time on both the publisher & agency providing him a well rounded perspective on the industry at large. Sean is a graduate of Providence College and he & his wife currently reside just outside Boston.

Musa joined GoFundMe in January 2021 to further build the GoFundMe brand and drive the company’s marketing and communications functions. Prior to GoFundMe, Musa was global head of marketing for Airbnb Experiences where he drove brand awareness and adoption of that rapidly growing part of Airbnb’s business. Before Airbnb, he was chief brand officer at Ford Motor Company and named to Forbes’ 2017 World’s Most Influential CMOs list. Musa has also held marketing leadership roles at Apple, Nike and Burberry and has a B.S. in Geography and Economics from London School of Economics. A distinguished counselor to iconic and emerging global brands, Musa currently serves as an advisor to MasterClass, Tonal and several other startups.

Joe Kyriakoza serves as vice president and general manager of the Polk Automotive Solutions business unit at IHS Markit, responsible for the strategy, sales and product functions. Mr. Kyriakoza team leads efforts to aid automotive OEMs, dealers, and affiliates to make better decisions and drive stronger results for their various marketing initiatives by making Polk Automotive Solutions available through all tech and media channels and platforms. Prior to joining IHS Markit, Mr. Kyriakoza served as Oracle Data Cloud's group vice president, North American Brand Sales. He joined Oracle Data Cloud via the Datalogix acquisition, where he spent 4 years as vice president and general manager of Automotive. Prior to Datalogix, Mr. Kyriakoza spent more than five years at Jumpstart Automotive Group and Hearst (acquired Jumpstart in 2007) in various roles leading product strategy, marketing and national sales. Earlier in his career, He was a partner and manager of all national digital media initiatives for Ford Motor Media, the media-buying arm for Ford Motor Company.Mr. Kyriakoza graduated from University of Detroit Mercy with a B.A. in Communications and resides in the Detroit area. He was a co-founder and president of 313 Digital, the digital community organization for the Detroit area, and former president of the Detroit Advertising Association.

Tina serves B2C marketing professionals, focused on prescriptive and predictive marketing analytics (including marketing mix modeling, cross-channel attribution, and test and learn approaches), measurement strategies, best-in-class marketing and customer metrics, customer journey analytics, tools and technologies that support marketing insights, and insights-to-action strategies.

Rochelle currently serves as the Vice President of Digital at Giant Eagle, where she is responsible for driving digital transformation focusing on Giant Eagle’s Retail Media Network and Marketplace. Rochelle has over 20 years of experience in the retail grocery industry and prior to her current role was the VP of Grocery at Giant Eagle. Rochelle is passionate about inclusion and diversity, volunteering in her local Pittsburgh community and spending time her family.

Vanessa Diaz is a STEM professional with 20 years of experience spanning companies in Wall Street, Manufacturing, Healthcare and Financial industry. Currently she is a Senior Director of Marketing Automation at Transamerica, where she delivers on the technology and operations needed for multi-channel campaign execution, media activation, data, analytics, and ROI. She donates her time and expertise to multiple education and mentoring organizations and inspires underrepresented students and career changers to pursue STEM competencies and careers. In 2018 she was selected as one of fifteen women making 2018 the year of leading Latinas: http://bit.ly/2KUEp7y, and one of four women leading in STEM. In 2021 the University of Oklahoma awarded her the distinction of OU woman of excellence. Her goal is one of achieving diversity and inclusion, that she promotes through her volunteering efforts and in her current company, Transamerica, through the Women’s Impact Network ERG.

Joe is a leading expert on the intersection of marketing and technology. His research focuses on exploring strategies for leveraging technology – including enterprise marketing software suites, mobile engagement automation, and identity management – to deliver engaging customer experiences. Joe also researches the long-term trajectory of the marketing technology ecosystem and its implications for marketing organizations and suppliers.

Eric Sapp serves as President of the B-Corp, Public Democracy. As an entrepreneur, faith leader, and political advisor, Eric has spent his career supporting communities all over the world in their efforts to promote the common good. These partnerships increasingly pointed him toward the importance of values-based data and empathy-driven digital marketing, which are at the core of Public Democracy. As attention metrics, demography, and purchase histories were increasingly shaping the world’s data—teaching algorithms that humans are best understood by how we were born, what we’d watch, and what we would buy—Eric led a team that developed one of the largest values-based response databases in the nation. Public Democracy then leveraged that psychometric data to develop empathy-driven digital marketing tools that have led to breakthroughs in combating trafficking, mobilizing civic engagement, providing services to severely injured veterans, and are now being turned toward identifying and providing interventions to people at the earliest stages of opioid addiction.

As the Director of Digital and Social Media for National General Insurance David helps lead the D2C media campaigns leveraging strategy, data and analytics with an emphasis on Branding and the User Journey. With over 20 years of experience working with brands ranging from MTV, VH1, Coca-Cola USA, McDonald’s, Chick-Fil-A, UPS, Home Depot, American Blue Ribbon Holdings and Sonova Hearing Group. In the midst of the greatest evolution we’ve seen in marketing, the brand remains at the core, however everything starts with the consumer. As a former traditional Advertising guy turned Digital Marketing Strategist and Digital Ambassador, User-Data is the new frontier for marketers, the information is there to build a better, more relevant relationship with your audience. Sustained success requires a strong digital foundation, all digital touch points should be considered both internal and external. Focus on the end user and their experience. You just have to know where to look and be willing to listen.

Charlotte Tsou is the Head of Marketing Analytics and Insights for Prudential’s U.S. Businesses, responsible for transformation of Marketing into a data-led, customer obsessed powerhouse. Prior to joining Prudential in May 2021, Charlotte spent 17 years with HBSC Bank in country, regional and Global roles and most recently served as Global Head of Marketing & Customer Channels Analytics for Global Retail Banking and Wealth Management. In this role, she managed a data science and machine learning team, driving growth for the Retail Banking & Wealth Management business of 45M customers globally. She was responsible for the global marketing and customer analytics agenda and optimizing marketing spend globally. Charlotte was also a senior leader for HSBC Asia Pacific and Latin America, rotating through Shanghai, Hong Kong, Jakarta and Sao Paulo. Prior to HSBC, Charlotte was Head of CRM at Citi Mortgage. Charlotte is the Doctoral Candidate (2023) of SBS Swiss Business School. Charlotte holds M.S. in Business Research from SBS Swiss Business School, and M.S. in Integrated Marketing Communication (specialized in Digital and Database Marketing) from Northwestern University.

Chris Hawk is a data, technology, and analytics expert who has lead Data Strategy at Coca-Cola, overseen Identity Consulting at Neustar, and presently serves as the lead of the Media Strategy & Investment Performance team at Papa John’s International in Atlanta, GA. As a longtime martech/adtech advocate, Chris has served as an advisor to a number major companies, including SpotX, Verizon Media Group, and Oracle DataLogix. He is passionate about linking strategy and operations to empirically drive consumer value.

Chris Park is a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft and oversees Business Strategy and Data & Identity solutions for the global advertising business. Chris has over 15 years of experience in digital advertising. Prior to joining Microsoft, Chris was Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships at DoubleVerify, and was a founding member of SF-based ad-tech startup, Beanstock Media. He’s held management roles at Verizon Business and DoubleClick and began his career in advertising placing out-of-home ads on buildings and buses in NYC. Chris currently resides in Kirkland, Washington with his wife, son, and beagle.

With 15+ years in digital strategy and tech, Sean has worked both agency and client side, with brands such as Choice Hotels, Carfax, HBO and Lacoste. Ad tech has been a primary focus for him throughout. He currently leads ad tech for NBCU Peacock.

Joanna serves B2C marketing professionals and is an industry expert on programmatic advertising. As Vice President, Principal Analyst leading adtech coverage, Joanna explores the fast-evolving digital advertising ecosystem with a focus on helping marketers make the right organizational and technology decisions to power customer-obsessed marketing. Specifically, she covers several core components of a modern buy-side tech stack, including demand-side platforms (DSPs), ad servers, dynamic creative optimization (DCO), and the like, as well as looking at the intersection of service and technology in programmatic media management. Joanna has nearly 20 years of digital marketing experience and has been a pioneer throughout her career. She began at digital agency Avenue A as a media planner and buyer in 2000 and, in 2008, launched Razorfish’s agency trading desk, ATOM Systems, to bring programmatic expertise to the agency and its clients. Joanna joined Forrester in 2010, serving interactive marketers and covering adtech and programmatic advertising as a principal analyst. In 2013, she moved to leading trade publication AdExchanger, which further deepened her adtech expertise, and in 2015, she joined programmatic tech company MediaMath as CMO, where she led a global marketing team for two years. Joanna holds a BA in psychology from Vassar College, graduating Phi Beta Kappa with general and departmental honors.

Jay Prasad has over two decades of experience in leading companies and the industry in the data and cross screen revolution across digital video and TV. Jay is currently the Chief Strategy Officer for LiveRamp TV In this role, he will help create a holistic go to market strategy for all of the LiveRamp TV offerings in the US and grow it Internationally, and evaluate M&A opportunities. Taking into account dynamic aggressive market trends, emerging and disruptive technologies, he will lead a team that is tasked with executing strategic and revenue partnerships that accelerate the industry's move to scale liquidity in cross screen marketing and outcome based measurement. Most recently, Jay was the Chief Business & Strategy Officer for VideoAmp Mr. Prasad led VideoAmp’s business strategy, partnerships and marketing that were instrumental in developing new products around TV and Video unification, and raising 106M in venture funding. Notably, Mr. Prasad is a co-inventor on VideoAmp's patents. Prior to joining VideoAmp, Mr. Prasad served as VP of Global Business Development at TubeMogul where he led the company’s launch of Programmatic TV, data and supply partnerships, as well as their international partnership teams in the U.S., EU, Japan, and Southeast Asia. Previously, he led strategic development at FreeWheel focused on broadcaster's distribution to digital and OTT platforms. Jay has also held leadership roles with Yahoo!, and Ernst & Young. Mr. Prasad is on the Video board of the IAB and also serves on its government affairs and advanced TV committee Mr. Prasad holds a degree in Marketing, International Business, and Risk Management from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and studied International Business and International Political Economics at the London Business School. He also holds a certificate in BlockChain innovation from the MIT Sloan School of Business. Jay Prasad joined LiveRamp TV as chief strategy officer in January 2020. LiveRamp, a data connectivity platform leveraged by brands and their partners to deliver exceptional experiences, tapped Prasad, formerly chief strategy officer at ad-tech firm VideoAmp, to create a holistic go-to-market strategy and capture the opportunity in data-driven marketing in TV streaming. Prasad joined LiveRamp shortly after the company’s $150 million acquisition of Data Pus Math.

David Eisenberg is Chief Strategy Officer at LiveRamp (NYSE: RAMP), a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that provides the identity platform for powering exceptional experiences. David is responsible for strategic planning, M&A, partnerships and investments. Prior to LiveRamp, David led Strategy and Corporate Development at Acxiom and before that at BzzAgent, prior to its $60M acquisition by Dunnhumby. In addition, David served as head of international corporate development for Rakuten Group, a $15B global consumer Internet and Ecommerce Company. He led the company’s global expansion strategy, M&A and business development efforts in US, Europe and China, including the successful US launch of Rakuten.com, Rakuten Marketing and Rakuten Loyalty and the acquisitions of LinkShare, CauseLoyalty, Traffic Strategies and FreeCause. David serves on the Board of Directors of Ensono and as an advisor to Retail Capital and Linkable Networks. He earned a BA from University of Wisconsin-Madison and a JD from University of Detroit School of Law. David lives in Connecticut with his wife and two children.

Travis is the Product Manager for Portrait Engine, where he leads the strategy, development, and go-to-market strategy for 1st party identity resolution at LiveRamp and the interfaces with other LiveRamp and ecosystem products.

Tom has worked at LiveRamp for over 6 years, focusing on analytic products including Safe Haven, incrementality solutions and core Identity services. Tom's previous work with other Silicon Valley companies include Apple, Oracle, NetScape and Next Computer. Tom currently resides in San Jose with his wife and two sons, with common visits from neighboring alpacas, bobcats, geckos and other strange California fauna who unfortunately can't enjoy Tom's extensive boardgames collection.

Mr. Tawakol has served as vice president & general manager of Cisco Systems, Inc.’s (NASDAQ: CSCO) Webex Customer Experience business unit since 2019. In 2017 he founded and was CEO of Voicea, a company specializing in leveraging conversational artificial intelligence which was acquired by Cisco in 2019. Prior to founding Voicea, Mr. Tawakol was employed by Oracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL) as senior vice president and general manager of Oracle America Inc.’s Data Cloud division. In 2007, he founded BlueKai, Inc., a leading data management platform for Fortune 100 marketers, and served as its CEO until BlueKai’s acquisition by Oracle in 2014. Prior roles include chief advertising officer and general manager of Medio Systems, Inc. (acquired by Nokia); and CEO of CoRelation (acquired by Audience Science). He currently serves on the advisory board of Decibel, a venture capital firm, and is a former director of PlaceIQ, a data and technology provider of marketing solutions based on location data. Mr. Tawakol holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and two Master of Science degrees from Stanford University, one in Engineering and the other in Computer Science.

Joe leads the analytics team for Hill's US division. Joe's team has been building analytical expertise working with external agencies to analyze media investments through market mix modelling and revenue management analytics. In the last year the team has grown by adding data scientists working on eCommerce lifetime value and path to purchase analysis. Joe has worked for Hill's for 15 years in Europe and the US, having previously worked for Proctor & Gamble in Europe.

Thibaut Munier co-founded Numberly with Yseulys Costes 21 years ago. With a talented team of 600 people, they're building Numberly, an independent Data Marketing and MarTech expert which bridges the gap between CRM and Media with a strong independent mindset and a mix of Silicon Valley and European touch. Thibaut is passionate about Data Driven Marketing and a recognized expert in Applying Data Science for Customer Insights and Omnichannel Activation. Thibaut is a strong advocate of the Open Internet and believes in Data Collaboration as a way to drive the change for organizations with better measurement and more efficient marketing strategies. Thibaut is a graduate of the EM Lyon Business School, holds an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin and a Masters of Research in Datamining from the University of Dauphine in Paris. Just before Covid, Thibaut got back to Europe after 5 inspirational years in Palo Alto.

Doug is currently Vice President, Marketing Transformation. In this role, Doug leads the Company’s strategic transformation effort to become a digitally enabled consumer experience organization able to personalize its marketing at scale. This includes overseeing the creation and implementation of our capabilities in Marketing Data & Technology, Consumer Experience, Media, Commerce, and big data insights. He oversees a cross discipline team that includes marketing, marketing communications, media, data strategy, data science, insights, and marketing technology professionals. Prior to his current role Doug led Clorox’s Global Marketing Communications organization and was responsible for stewarding the Company’s $300M Marketing spend across advertising, shopper marketing, social, PR, and CRM. Prior to that he created and led Clorox’s Global Marketing Capability organization. In this role he created and innovated the Company’s global brand building model including the elements of brand strategy, strategic consumer insight, targeting, marketing planning, and integrated marketing communications processes.

Daniella Harkins is SVP, Commercial Strategy and Excellence where she focuses on deepening relationships with strategic partners, agencies, media companies, and brands. In her role, Daniella works with executives across the adtech ecosystem to galvanize growth by leveraging connected data and identity. She built her career working with clients at the intersection of data, technology, and creative. Prior to joining LiveRamp, Daniella was VP, Strategic Solutions at Verve, where she built programmatic and data partnerships to power mobile solutions for Verve’s clients. Daniella also held multiple executive roles at Acxiom. Her passion and curiosity about how to improve marketing efficiency while enhancing the consumer experience has been the core driver in her career. Daniella holds a BA in French from Temple University and an MBA from St John’s University Rome.

Dave is an independent management consultant specializing in the financial services sector with an extensive track record of accomplishments as an executive leader at Citigroup. He is an innovative thought leader and industry subject matter expert sought after for C-suite guidance on M&As, corporate investments, Mar/AdTech product offerings, B2B strategy development, go-to-market data utilization and financial services regulatory practices. Dave has deep functional experience across multiple disciplines, including consumer retail banking, product & UI development, identity management, data & information processing, scoring & segmentation, delivery channel optimization and legal & regulatory compliance. As Head of Marketing Information Management, he most recently built and led the global teams responsible for the systemic generation and coordination of billions of optimized data driven consumer centric marketing and advertising leads across Citi’s consumer lines-of-business and digital/offline channels. His ability to align regulatory and privacy compliant data and analytics with day-to-day production processes and controls enabled Citi to efficiently simplify and automate their B2C direct marketing operations, delivering material business outcomes to the bottom line.

Erica Hissong, has more than 20-years of experience in Performance Marketing, most of that in the healthcare industry. She is a results-driven, strategic marketer with experience leveraging data and analytics to develop profitable acquisition and retention strategies. Erica is a cross-functional team player. In her current role at Anthem, she leads the Performance Media team dedicated to driving profitable campaigns for all Anthem business lines including Commercial and Government segments. Erica has a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Centre College and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Louisville. She currently resides in Louisville, Kentucky with her husband, two children and 2 rescue dogs.

With 14 years of professional experience in growth marketing, general business analytics, and adtech (and 6 years in wine and hospitality!), Samantha co-leads the Data & Insights practice for Jellyfish. Her focus is on Americas and APAC business, especially in the areas of performance media, full stack measurement & attribution, and business intelligence.

Maryam Banikarim, a chief marketing officer who has led a number of global businesses through sweeping transformations and top line growth, is known for her passion for local community and purpose driven leadership which drew her to Nextdoor, the neighborhood platform, where Maryam currently leads Marketing, Communications, Community and Global. Most recently, she repositioned Nextdoor as a purpose driven brand for all neighbors leading to one of the most successful SPAC announcements to date, taking the bold step of listing as “KIND.” Prior to Nextdoor, Maryam was global chief marketing officer of Hyatt, Gannett, NBCUniversal, and Univision. Maryam is widely regarded as a bold leader who took on disruption and championed purpose who applies a wide array of marketing tools to move her organization forward, creating value while inspiring employees, customers, and a range of stakeholders. Maryam currently serves on the board of One Spa World, the Samsung Retail Advisory Board, and as chairman emeritus for Reporters without Borders. She is an advisor to Brand 50, Strawberry Frog, and Cove Hill Partners. She is a member of Fast Company’s Impact Council, TIME@100 Advisory Board and Adweek’s Women Trailblazers. At the height of the pandemic, Maryam cofounded a grassroots movement, NYCNext, to revitalize New York City and support the city’s artist community. This volunteer organization has garnered national attention with their New York State of Mind campaign resulting in over two billion impressions from appearances on CBS Sunday Morning and the NY Times and was recognized by FastCompany as a Brand That Matters.  

Ankit is the Personalization, Data & Analytics North America Lead at Accenture Interactive, with over 15+ years of experience in ad/martech, data management, and digital marketing. Ankit partners with CMOs and CDOs to pivot organizational capabilities towards the needs of customers and modern marketers thru more sophisticated and improved customer experiences with next-gen technology, analytics, and privacy centricity.

Michelle Dooley is the Managing Director of Strategy for the Safe Haven product at LiveRamp. In this role, Michelle is responsible for driving the strategy to enable secure, privacy-centric data partnerships. Prior to her role at LiveRamp, Michelle spent nine years at Target building out their world-class data-driven marketing practice. She was instrumental in building the data strategy and audience capabilities that allowed Target’s media business, Roundel, to scale. Michelle is passionate about people which is evident in her focus on consumer-obsessed strategies that build brands and drive ROI. Michelle is from Texas and is on a mission to bring good Tex-Mex to Minnesota where she now resides.

Andrew Richardson has spent nearly 20 years helping clients increase ROI with data-driven strategy and analytics. Andrew is currently the EVP, Analytics and Marketing Sciences for Tinuiti, the largest independent performance marketing firm in the country across Streaming TV and the Triopoly of Google, Facebook and Amazon.

Brittany Mitchell is an accomplished marketing professional with 14+ years of experience from established non-profits to innovative startups to driving performance for large brands.

Brittany has been recognized as '40 under 40' twice. First in 2018, by Brand Innovators' for her work in digital advertising at State Farm Insurance, where she managed a $250 million advertising budget and secondly in 2022 by her alma mater, the University of Tennessee for her work as CMO of Rita P. Mitchell, LLC a company she runs with her mom, Rita P. Mitchell to empower people to live their best lives.

Brittany obtained her undergraduate degree from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in the fields of Marketing, International Business, and French. In 2012, she received her International MBA from the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. Brittany has lived and worked in Paris, France and is fluent in French.

Brittany is currently based in New York and works as an Account Executive at LiveRamp and she also recently published her second book, Spoken Art: Too Brave To Back Down, which is a mother-daughter memoir of art, poetry, and affirmations.

Dane Mathews is Vice President of Precision Marketing at Conagra Brands. He leads Conagra’s marketing transformation leveraging enterprise agility, personalization, technological enablement and advanced analytics. With a focus on the digital consumer experience, Dane is responsible for enterprise consumer marketing efforts including brand design, media & advertising, eCommerce, CRM and direct-to-consumer (DTC) strategy. Dane has 15 years of marketing experience and has led the development and scale of transformative consumer experiences at some of the most well-known brands including, Caesars Entertainment, Target and McDonald’s. Dane received his BS in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and his MBA from The University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. Dane resides in Oak Park, IL with his wife Marlene, their 3 sons, Dane, Miles and Jaden and their goldendoodle Frida.

As the VP of Product Management at LiveRamp, Joran Lawrence oversees the company's Advanced TV Measurement product, Data Plus Math. His mission is to continually innovate cross-screen measurement and attribution solutions that enable customers to measure advertising impact on audiences and business outcomes at scale, across screens and formats. Prior to LiveRamp, Joran held roles at Verizon Media, where he was Vice President of Product Management. In this role, he led the team responsible for monetizing data across all advertising platforms. He also served as VP of Product Management at Millennial Media, which was acquired by AOL in 2015. Before that, Lawrence was the Director of Product Management at Jumptap, where he helped lead the company’s efforts to bring data-driven audience targeting to mobile. Joran earned his B.A. from University of Puget Sound. He also has an MBA in International Finance from the Brandeis International Business School.

Mark Risis leads Strategy & Ecosystem for PepsiCo Global Data + Analytics. In this transformational role with PepsiCo, he works across the entire PepsiCo enterprise to design and collaboratively implement the company’s efforts in data strategy, sourcing, governance, modeling, management, and analytics/AI to drive growth and efficiencies that fuel the broader Digital Transformation. He is responsible for Enterprise Data Strategy, Data Partnerships and Acquisition, Monetization and is a key stakeholder in the overarching Data/AI value chain that fuels the company’s digital capabilities. A graduate of Duke University, he has been a transformational change leader and influencer for multiple enterprises including LiveRamp, IBM, The Weather Company, and TiVo. On a personal note, Mark is an avid baker (especially old-world style sourdough) and thoroughly addicted to golf.

Jennifer Pelino advises the world’s top FMCG brands, retailers, media agencies and platforms on how integrated technology, analytics and data can significantly improve marketing effectiveness and efficiencies to drive marketing campaign performance and achieve measurable sales lift. She helps brands strategically plan, target, measure and optimize their media plans and campaigns across channels, saving them millions of dollars in the paid, owned and eared media space. Her global expertise crosses several critical business functions, including marketing, general management, innovation, analytics, and operations, offers a unique integrated perspective to improving business results.

In addition to her brand strategy work, Jennifer is a recognized industry thought leader, frequent contributor to top advertising publications and a sought-after speaker for key industry organizations, including ANA, ARF and WARC. She uses her industry position to champion diversity, inclusion and equity and specifically conducts research to help accelerate the achievement of gender equality promoting the economic benefits of a diverse ecosystem.

Jennifer has an MBA in marketing from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Follow her on Twitter at @JenniferJPelino and read her points of view on Linkedin.

Allison Branton is the Head of Advanced TV at AnalyticsIQ. Her experience spans 20 years in data and advertising having worked on several sides of the table: agency, brand, sales and business development. Allison believes the key to a good client partnership is becoming so engrained in your client’s success that your boss needs to remind you which company you work for. Allison is based in Phoenix, Arizona where she maintains 110 degrees is not hot because it’s a dry heat.

Allie is a data-driven digital marketer with over ten years of experience in managing paid media for consumer-facing and business to business brands. Building successful teams and telling digital stories through data and insights is what excites her most!

Ivonne is the Vice President of Marketing and Innovation for Avocados From Mexico. She leads a high-performance team and the innovation agenda that put Avocados From Mexico in the Fast Company 2021 list of Most Innovative Companies in the world, and the top one in the branding category.

In 2021 Ivonne was included in the list of 100 Most Influential Latinas in the U.S.

In 2018, she became one of the five women honored with the Changing the Game Award Brainwave category. An award given by the prestigious She Runs It organization which recognizes women within the marketing industry who are true catalysts of innovation by fearlessly making bold moves and reinventing the rules of marketing to transform their brands, and their organizations.

The previous year, the American Advertising Federation had included her in the list of “20 Women to Watch in Dallas Advertising” and awarded her the Shining Star Award, which recognizes women in the Dallas advertising industry who are breaking glass ceilings. More recently in 2021 she made the list of the 100 most influential Latinas.

Through the span of her 20-year+ marketing career, Ivonne has played leadership roles in multiple corporations representing multibillion brands, as well as in top advertising agencies such as Lintas, McCann Erickson Worldwide and The Richards Group, working with well-known brands in almost every category. In 2014, she joined Avocados From Mexico as the Head of Digital Marketing, and in seven years she built the organization’s digital practice which became one of the most successful digital groups in terms of performance and innovation.

Under her leadership, AFM’s digital work has won dozens of accolades and recognitions including: the only brand earning the top #2 position as Merkle’s “Best Digital Super Bowl Campaigns” for five consecutive years, from 2016 through 2020; an ANA REGGIE Award in 2020 for Disrupted Use of Digital Technology; a Gold (Sol De Oro) for #Avosecrets (AFM’s 2017 Super Bowl digital campaign), in the category of Real Time Content at the FIAP competition in Buenos Aires. This festival is recognized in the Latin American region as one of the two most important festivals, together with Cannes.

She is member of the Fast Company Executive Board and often contributes with articles about disruptive creative an innovation. She has also addressed dozens of keynotes – across the nation and internationally – about Avocados From Mexico’s marketing successes, and she is a regular guest speaker the IPADE, (the top business school in Mexico). It’s what she calls her small contribution to help push the industry forward. Innovation, disruptive creativity and a non-traditional approach to marketing are the hallmarks of Ivonne’s work.

An Atlanta-based, award-winning marketer, Tia Cummings-Hopkins has 15 years of brand marketing experience across companies like Johnson & Johnson, Kellogg’s, IHG Hotels & Resorts, and Procter & Gamble. In May 2021, she joined fin-tech giant Square as the SVP, Global Brand Marketing, leading the teams responsible for Brand Insights & Strategy, Advertising & Media, Experiential Marketing, and Brand Partnerships. Prior to her career in brand marketing, she had varied experiences in corporate philanthropy, manufacturing operations, and product development. Tia attended Hampton University as a Presidential Scholar and earned her B.S. in chemical engineering. She also has an MBA from the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University where she was a Business Opportunity Program Fellow. Tia has always had a passion for community service and giving back to those less fortunate. Her 15+ year service record includes volunteering with organizations such as Big Brothers Big Sisters, Citizen Schools, America Needs You, and via her beloved sorority, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. In her free time, Tia enjoys traveling the world, reading, and spending time with her new husband, family and friends.

An advertising growth executive with 15+ years of experience, Michelle Tang brings a focused approach to growth and marketing that results in dynamic relationships with clients. Her ability to find the intersection between client challenges and agency strengths has enabled her to successfully deliver business impact at a variety of advertising companies including boutiques and global agencies, digital consultancies, traditional advertising agencies and media innovators. Michelle currently serves as the Chief Marketing Officer at Digitas, a leading marketing services company named both Digital Network of the Year and Media Network of the Year by Campaign. In her role, she oversees Business Development, Prospecting, Marketing, and Communications, delivering on growth across the client portfolio.

Prior to joining Digitas, Michelle held growth leadership roles at agencies including Organic, FCB, and Wunderman Thompson, winning an impressive roster of clients including Ford, Planet Fitness, Levi’s, Best Buy, and Clorox.

Passionate about digital marketing, adtech and data, Stefan Havik is in the exec team of DPG Media and responsible for digital revenue and data. With 90 brands and 5500 employees, DPG Media is one of the leading European media groups. DPG Media is known for forward thinking digital strategy and proprietary advertising technology and focus on (first party) data. Prior to DPG Media, Stefan had a short run at WPP and was Managing Director of M1 (Merkle One) and Amnet at Dentsu Aegis Network based out of their HQ in London. Looking after programmatic activities and after M1, DAN's people based marketing solution, he's been engaged in growing data driven business lines in the midsts of new privacy regulation. Before Dentsu Aegis Network Stefan worked at Sanoma, a large media owner in Europe. Stefan started in several (digital) marketing roles and ran his own (SME focused) online marketing company. He was a board member at the Dutch marketing institute (NIMA) and is a regular speaker at digital marketing events.

As Chief Data Officer, Laura McElhinney is responsible for the technological architecture and daily quality assurance practice and processing of Horizon’s data warehouses, data lakes and data marts. Laura also leads a team of internal and external technology professionals to provide Horizon and their clients with comprehensive media and technology consulting services and solutions.

As the media and advertising vertical is at the center of the big dataworld, Horizon must secure and process large volumes of data, from thousands of complexes, linked sources. Laura is tasked with the enhancement, creation and implementation of data technology platforms, systems and solutions that seamlessly integrate, analyze and distribute accurate client level data throughout all Horizon clients and account teams. Until recently, Laura was the North America head of all media technology at Havas Media, where she was responsible for the implementation, training and integrity of all systems, platforms and related applications. In this role, Laura led a team of technology and solution consultants responsible for all media system activations.

Laura is married and, along with caring for her five children, is an avid skier and sports enthusiast. In her spare time, she also pursues her passions of cooking and music.

Amanda is vice president (VP), enterprise partnerships of Goodway Group. Driven by her entrepreneurial spirit and intellect for solution development, Amanda identifies and develops strategic relationships to ensure Goodway Group’s clients receive best-in-class, results-yielding ad tech strategies. Highly in tune with the ad tech industry and market trends, she leverages her progressive foresight to inform Goodway Group’s strategic road map and arm the organization with the external context needed to continually cultivate innovative thinking.

With deep roots in interactive sales, account strategy and campaign management, Amanda has comprehensive and extensive understanding of the fundamental components required to produce successful digital media campaigns. She thrives in the fast-paced, always-evolving ad tech industry and is passionate about helping others, empowering and equipping people with the needed tools and skills to take their careers to the next level.

Lauren Dillard serves as Chief Communications Officer for LiveRamp, leading investor relations, public relations, analyst relations, and internal communications. As part of the executive leadership team, she is focused on elevating LiveRamp as an independent public company since its separation from Acxiom in late 2018, reinforcing its position as a neutral, open provider of data connectivity. She is active in communicating LiveRamp's global data ethics program, including readiness initiatives around GDPR and the California Consumer Privacy Act.

Prior to joining LiveRamp in 2014, Lauren was at Addo Communications, where she helped develop and execute investor relations strategies for a wide-range of private and public companies in the TMT space. Before Addo, she worked in Corporate Finance at Silver Spring Networks and completed her CPA at Ernst & Young. Lauren holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Santa Clara University and lives in San Francisco with her husband, Matt, and two daughters, Marion and Carlin.

Scott Howe is the Chief Executive Officer of LiveRamp (NYSE: RAMP), a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that provides the identity platform for powering exceptional experiences. LiveRamp is the largest provider of identity resolution services, serving more than 1,000 companies across a broad range of sectors including brands, agencies, technology vendors, data providers, and publishers.

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. Throughout his tenure, Acxiom won countless industry awards and accolades, including recognition for the industry’s Best Innovation, Partner of the Year by the one of the world’s largest financial services companies and Supplier of the Year by the world’s largest retailer. 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.

When he’s not helping LiveRamp deploy the world’s most advanced and trusted offline and digital identity resolution technologies, Howe can be found serving as scout master for Troop 28 in Burlingame, Calif., canvassing the country in his refurbished 1956 vintage Airstream trailer or designing and building furniture in his garage workshop. A native of Milwaukee, he is a proud fan and part owner of the Green Bay Packers.

Scott graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with a degree in economics, and earned an MBA from Harvard University. He most recently served on the board of directors of Blue Nile, the largest online retailer of certified diamonds and fine jewelry, and is a former director of the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) and Turn, Inc., a digital advertising company.

With 15 years’ experience and a passion for all things data and analytics, Emily currently serves as Vice President, Data Architecture at Spark Foundry leading data and platform strategy for the Central and West regions, working with clients like Starbucks and REI. Prior to joining Spark, Emily held the role of VP, Strategy at Goodway Group where she oversaw data strategy and digital media strategy across Goodway's client base. Emily also spent 2 years at DX Marketing, a boutique data-driven agency, and 5 years at Cardlytics, a card-linked marketing and purchase intelligence provider.

Jason White joined LiveRamp as senior vice president and head of publishers in April 2020. Previously, he held leadership roles across ViacomCBS, OpenX and Fox Audience Network. In his current post, Jason is responsible for accelerating adoption of LiveRamp’s Authenticated Traffic Solution (ATS) with publishers, and scaling the company’s global publisher business overall.

Diego Panama is SVP of Revenue at LiveRamp. Diego leads LiveRamp’s commercial and strategic partnerships with all customers and prospects. He joined LiveRamp from Microsoft Advertising, where he helped pioneer programmatic ad sales through the Microsoft Advertising Exchange, first as a product manager and then as a sales executive. Prior to Microsoft, Diego was Director of Programs at Endeavor, a cutting edge nonprofit working with high-impact entrepreneurs around the world. Diego holds an MBA from MIT Sloan and a BA in Mathematics and Economics from Yale University. He lives in the Seattle area with his wife and three kids.

Kham Ward is head of diversity, inclusion and belonging (DIB) at LiveRamp, the leading data connectivity platform, where he is responsible for implementing comprehensive DIB strategies and cultivating a sense of inclusivity throughout the technology company.

With more than 10 years of experience as a diversity and inclusion strategist, Kham takes pride in having designed and facilitated global diversity training programs to educate more than 5,000 participants, 97% of whom rated his course highly. Kham’s philosophy is that while diversity can be achieved with little commitment, a truly inclusive environment requires the utmost tolerance, vulnerability, and trust.

Prior to joining LiveRamp, Kham led diversity and inclusion efforts at Ultimate Software, Indeed, and Western Carolina University, where he worked in close proximity with senior academic leaders and C-suite executives. His DIB strategies provided companies across the world with the tools needed to drive innovation, revenue, and human capital growth.

Kham received his Bachelor of Science from the University of Florida; a Masters of Education from the University of Maryland. He holds a diversity and inclusion certificate from Yale University and is a certified CQ and Unconscious Bias Trainer.

Amy Lee Stewart is SVP, General Counsel and Global Chief Data Ethics Officer of LiveRamp, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that provides the identity platform for powering exceptional experiences. As our General Counsel and Global Chief Data Ethics Officer, Amy brings over 30 years of legal experience, and leads LiveRamp’s world-class Data Ethics program.

She has served as lead counsel in matters involving FRCA privacy litigation, trade secrets, unfair competition, antitrust claims, and previously served as outside counsel for Acxiom. Amy has been a Certified Information Privacy Professional/United States (CIPP/US) by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) since 2015.

Prior to joining LiveRamp, Amy was a Member and Director at Rose Law Firm and served as an Adjunct Professor at the William H. Bowen School of Law, University of Arkansas. Amy is a graduate of the New York University School of Law and received her B.A. in Economics from Wellesley College. She is also an alum of Phillips Exeter Academy.

Jeffrey Nicholson is the co-founder and CEO of Tracer, a data intelligence platform built to bridge the growing gap between all of your data. Prior to co-founding Tracer, he was the first-ever Chief Media Officer at VaynerMedia. Jeffrey is a serial entrepreneur with a 15-year track record of building and scaling businesses across multiple fields including advertising, media, and technology. He currently serves on advisory boards for Roku, Pinterest, and Nextdoor.

Christy Borrowman is the Hill’s Pet Nutrition US Digital Transformation and CX head with responsibility across digital engagement & digital commerce, media, data, partnerships and the experience service center. She is most passionate about the landscape of online opportunities across pet care, agriculture, sustainability and healthcare. And all things Diversity, Equity & Inclusion. In her spare time, she runs a small family farm with her spouse and kids in the Midwest.

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.

Joe Glass, SVP of Sales at LiveRamp focuses on LiveRamp's Enterprise Brand Customers. Joe’s team works to drive adoption and scale, new LiveRamp products for LiveRamp's brand marketing customers. Joe joined LiveRamp 6 years ago as the company’s third Customer Success Manager. During his time at LiveRamp, he has been an integral part of building out the organization that supports all industry verticals. Joe has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and sits on the board for the Newman Program.

Diaz Nesamoney is an accomplished technology entrepreneur who founded three successful technology companies, all harnessing the power of data to power enterprise and consumer applications. Currently, Diaz is the Founder, President, and CEO of Jivox, a company that provides a technology platform for data-driven personalized advertising and marketing. He was previously Co-founder, President, and Chief Operating Officer at Informatica (NASDAQ:INFA), which he took from a startup to a publicly-traded company in 1999. Informatica pioneered data integration software as a category and is now the market leader with more than $1 billion in revenue and a $5 billion market capitalization. Before founding Jivox, he founded Celequest and served as its CEO until early 2007, when the company was acquired by Cognos/IBM. Celequest introduced the market’s first business intelligence and analytics appliance, a disruptive innovation that led to its acquisition. Diaz holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science in India and is the holder of seven technology patents. Diaz is also the author of the first book on using data and technology to personalize digital advertising.

Founder & CEO of Eagle Vista Partners, Laura Desmond is a highly regarded industry game changer, a true innovator, and the lead architect of reinventing and building the agency of the future using data, content, and analytics. Eagle Vista Partners has focused on senior advisory work with CEOs at Acxiom, LiveRamp, and Uptake Technologies, along with media, financial service, and emerging SaaS sectors. Eagle Vista Partners has also invested in several early- to mid-stage companies in the martech, ecommerce, and social networking sectors. Desmond was Chief Revenue Officer of Publicis Groupe and Chief Executive Officer of Starcom Mediavest Group, the #1 media and marketing services agency globally for five straight years under her leadership. While CEO, the business at SMG more than doubled and successfully pivoted to a digitally centric organization focused on emerging channels, data, analytics, and content. She led a diverse team of 6,500 employees across more than 100 offices who bring unconventional thinking and a passion for the art and science of marketing strategy, consumer behavior, and media investment. Laura has worked closely with some of the biggest and most successful marketers worldwide, including Samsung, Coca-Cola, Visa, Bank of America, P&G, and a host of emerging online consumer brand such as Airbnb, Spotify, EA Sports, and Twitter. In her work, she forged a new breed of partnership with media companies such as Google, Facebook, Acxiom, and Tencent. Laura is also an Operating Partner at Providence Equity Partners, working with the technology & media group on two investments in the adtech and marketing service sectors. Laura serves on the board of directors for Adobe Systems (2012), Syniverse Technologies (2016) and is Lead Director of Double Verify, (2017). She is also past Chair of the Advertising Council. Laura and Eagle Vista Partners are both based in Chicago.