Speakers

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 implements DIB strategies and cultivates inclusivity throughout the company. With over a decade of experience, Kham’s work has provided companies with the tools to drive innovation, revenue, and human capital growth.

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.