Speakers
OPENING KEYNOTE
Know Your Hustle
March 1 | 9:00 - 9:30 AM PST
Emma Grede
Co-Founder & CEO
Good American
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OPENING KEYNOTE
Community is the New Cool
March 1 | 9:30 - 10:00 AM PST
Maryam Banikarim
Head of Marketing, Global and Community
Nextdoor
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FEATURED SESSION
Fireside Chat
Feb 28 | 1:45 - 2:20 PM PST
Antonio Lucio
Founder & Principal
5S Diversity
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Mike Emmanuelidis
Senior Sales Director
LoopMe
Mike Emmanuelidis
Senior Sales Director
LoopMe
Mike has been in the digital advertising industry for the past 14 years, working across search, display and video. At LoopMe, he is their Senior Sales Director. He is responsible for their data and audience segmentation strategy working closely with clients and technology partners.
Walter Geer
Executive Creative Director, XD
VMLY&R
Walter Geer
Executive Creative Director, XD
VMLY&R
As Executive Creative Director, Experience Design at VMLY&R, Walter Geer is responsible for creating innovative design solutions within the health practice, and synergizing brand and customer experiences across a broader range of clients like Dell Technologies, Campbell Snacks, Pfizer, Walgreens and New Balance.
Walter was honored in Adweek’s ‘50 Most Important People in Marketing, Media and Tech’ and Savoy Magazine recognized Walter in their ‘Most Influential Black Executives in Corporate America’. He is not only known for re-inventing and revitalizing the way brands and advertisers connect with consumers, but also for being a passionate and vocal advocate. As the co-founder of Diverse Creatives, he has been outspoken in the charge for creating a diverse and inclusive culture for Black and brown creatives in advertising.
A veteran of the digital advertising space, Walter holds a total of six U.S. patents for digital ad formats and has implemented creative products and strategies for a variety of publishers and leading technology and media companies including Google, Viacom, NYTimes and MySpace. One of his most famous inventions was Skippable Pre-Roll (5,4,3,2,1 Skip video ad format). Walter has been an architect of market-first usability labs, applying biometric research to the development of creative executions while minimizing risk by understanding how consumer emotions and demographics impact brand engagement.
Prior to VMLY&R, Walter was SVP, Group Creative Director at TBWA\Worldhealth, where he ran Digital, Innovation and creative production.
Antonio Lucio
Founder & Principal
5S Diversity
Antonio Lucio
Founder & Principal
5S Diversity
With 40 years of marketing experience, Antonio is an experienced and successful global CMO and marketing industry leader. He has worked with some of the most recognized companies and iconic brands across multiple categories. He has held Global CMO roles for Facebook, HP Inc, and Visa, as well as the role of Chief Innovation and Portfolio Transformation Officer for PepsiCo Inc. Antonio has been a regular feature in the Forbes Most Influential CMOs, achieving top 5 positions in 2017 (#2), 2018 (#4) and 2019 (#3).
Antonio is a recognized thought leader and global influencer in marketing transformation. He is known for his compelling vision and commitment to tangible action. Antonio has successfully driven growth throughout his career by building businesses, brands, and marketing teams that have stood the test of time. He is skilled in developing successful strategies that drive revenue by building high-performing teams and marketing ecosystems, infusing deep analytics into effective communication strategies, and driving meaningful innovation throughout the customer’s journey.
Antonio is also known for his inclusive leadership philosophy of driving meaningful results through diversity, inclusion, and equity. For Antonio, diversity is a business imperative driven more by bold action than words and pronouncements. In all his roles, he delivered business results while significantly increasing the representation of women and people of color across senior levels in the entire marketing ecosystem: clients, agencies, and production houses. Antonio has been a celebrated and award-winning champion of diversity by organizations like ANA/AIMM, the 3% Conference, ADCOLOR, FREE THE WORK, Adweek, and PRWeek.
Antonio earned a B.A. in history from Louisiana State University. He was born in Spain, raised in Puerto Rico, and resides with his wife Ashley in San Francisco. Antonio is the proud father of five daughters. He is fluent in English Spanish and has a working knowledge of Portuguese.
Jeremy McGee
VP, Technical Presales
LeapYear Technologies
Jeremy McGee
VP, Technical Presales
LeapYear Technologies
Jeremy is LeapYear’s VP of Technical Presales. His team partners with LeapYear’s customers and prospects to connect the capabilities of the LY solution with the tremendous business value that can be unlocked by better leveraging sensitive data.
Prior to LeapYear, Jeremy held roles at Palantir Technologies, Bain Capital Ventures, Obama for America, and the Boston Consulting Group. Jeremy attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he majored in Aerospace Engineering.
Richard Blumenthal
United States Senator
Connecticut
Richard Blumenthal
United States Senator
Connecticut
In 2010, Senator Blumenthal was elected to represent Connecticut in the United States Senate. He was reelected in 2016.
In the Senate, Senator Blumenthal has built on his longtime advocacy for consumers by holding companies accountable for the safety of their products. He has pushed GM to fix its cars’ fatal defects, fought to keep dangerous nicotine products out of the hands of children, and worked to make communities safe from hazardous chemicals. As chair of the Commerce Consumer Protection subcommittee, he has led hearings and legislation to hold tech platforms like Facebook, Google, Twitter, and TikTok accountable for privacy failings, toxic and illegal content, and other serious harms.
Senator Blumenthal is also working to bring Connecticut’s transportation systems and infrastructure into the twenty-first century. Working with Connecticut’s Congressional Delegation, he has secured billions of dollars of federal funding to improve rail safety, promoted climate resiliency, and protected Long Island Sound and Connecticut’s rivers and streams.
He has spearheaded legislation to support veterans by expanding employment opportunities, increasing housing access, holding the VA accountable, and providing health care for those exposed to toxic chemicals during their service including Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans and veterans working near burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan. Senator Blumenthal authored the Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention for American Veterans Act, a bipartisan law to improve mental health care and suicide prevention resources.
Senator Blumenthal is a member of the Committee on the Judiciary, Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation, Committee on Armed Services, Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, and Special Committee on Aging.
Jerry Jones
EVP, Chief Ethics and Legal Officer
LiveRamp
Jerry Jones
EVP, Chief Ethics and Legal Officer
LiveRamp
Jerry C. Jones is the EVP, Chief Ethics and Legal Officer of LiveRamp (NYSE: RAMP), a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that provides the identity platform for powering exceptional experiences.
Prior to LiveRamp, Jerry was the Chief Ethics and Legal officer at Acxiom since 1999, where he oversaw all legal and data ethics matters. He also assists in the strategy and execution of mergers and alliances and the Company’s strategic initiatives.
Previously, he was employed for 19 years as an attorney with the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Arkansas, representing a broad range of business interests. He is a member of the board of directors of Agilysys, Inc. (NASDAQ: AGYS), a leading developer and marketer of proprietary enterprise software, services and solutions to the hospitality and retail industries, where he serves on the Audit Committee and the Nominating and Governance Committee. He also serves on the board of directors of Heifer International and on the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Board of Visitors, and is a co-founder of uHire U.S. He is a Special Advisor to the Club de Madrid, an organization composed of over 100 former Presidents and Prime Ministers from more than 60 democratic countries.
He was also a member of the board of directors of Entrust, Inc. until it was purchased by private investors in 2009 and is former chairman of the board of the Arkansas Virtual Academy. Mr. Jones holds a juris doctorate degree and a bachelor’s degree in public administration from the University of Arkansas.
Cameron Meierhoefer
Chief Product Officer
VideoAmp
Cameron Meierhoefer
Chief Product Officer
VideoAmp
As Chief Product Officer, Cameron oversees the entire Product organization. Cameron and his team focus on the current and future needs of clients and how to meet them through product enhancements and development.
Breanne Carpenter
Sr. Director, Audience Development & Data Strategy
Saatchi & Saatchi
Breanne Carpenter
Sr. Director, Audience Development & Data Strategy
Saatchi & Saatchi
Breanne Carpenter is the Sr. Director Audience Development & Data Strategy at Saatchi & Saatchi. Her role focuses on connecting the target development throughout the campaign process and guiding how those targets are delivered across channels. She is a 15-year veteran, having worked with clients in automotive, entertainment, and technology.
Christina Park
SVP Sales
LoopMe
Christina Park
SVP Sales
LoopMe
Christina has been in digital advertising for the past 18 years, starting off onthe agency and client-side and then moving into ad tech sales. She has held sales leadership positions at leading ad tech companies like Turn, one of the first programmatic solutions in-market, Drawbridge, which was a leading identity solution in the market, and most recently DoubleVerify. She has been at LoopMe for the past 2 1/2 years, heading up their strategic sales efforts across North America.
Megan Harris
EVP, Integrated Solutions
Publicis Media
Megan Harris
EVP, Integrated Solutions
Publicis Media
Megan is a global results-driven business leader, serving as EVP, Integrated Solutions for Publicis. With 20 years of experience, she has a notable track record of developing digital-first brand and marketing strategies across global Fortune 500 entertainment, CPG, apparel, hospitality, financial services, luxury and logistics brands. Megan’s background and expertise in performance marketing enables her to deliver tangible business results and data-led outcomes across the entire marketing ecosystem. She firmly believes in the power of a customer-centric approach to accelerate brand growth, and Megan has successfully executed this for major clients including Marriot Hotels & Resorts, DHL, Zillow, LVMH, Unilever and Avis Budget Group. She has worked across both domestic and global roles, including spending 10 years in London leading the EMEA media and data practice for Publicis entity Sapient-Razorfish, where she was responsible for senior client relationship management, and identifying and driving business growth opportunities.
Maggie Malek
CEO
MMI Agency
Maggie Malek
CEO
MMI Agency
Maggie Malek is the CEO of MMI Agency, where her passion for authentic connections drives the agency to remarkable integration with clients. Alongside her talented team, she helps guide clients toward positive transformation through the development of innovative digital strategies, direct-to-consumer and e-commerce programs, and breakthrough influencer marketing and public relations campaigns. She spearheads high-profile projects for Fortune 500 clients, including Amazon, Microsoft, Shell Oil Company, and P&G, and she works directly with platforms like Facebook and Google on new-to-market product offerings.
After rising through the ranks of MMI for 8 years, Maggie became CEO in 2019. She reenergized the agency during both a global pandemic and a major recession, with her vision allowing MMI to not just grow but thrive during unprecedented times. Under her leadership, MMI was recognized as the fastest growing middle-market company (across all industries) in Houston in 2020 by Houston Business Journal. The following year, the same journal recognized Maggie as a 40 Under 40 Honoree. In 2022, she oversaw a merger to bring Media Kitchen, a leading media innovation company, under the MMI banner, welcoming fresh talent into her existing team. Maggie is truly the heartbeat of the organization, and her caring approach to team leadership, and fearless drive to deliver measurable impact and value for her clients, are core to MMI’s continued success.
David Rifkin
Global Vice President, Agencies
LiveRamp
David Rifkin
Global Vice President, Agencies
LiveRamp
David Rifkin is the Global VP of Agencies at LiveRamp. An industry vet of over 17 years, Rifkin has worked in all facets of digital media with a specific focus on partnering with agencies large and small. Over the past 6 years Rifkin has been instrumental in the creation and continued expansion of LR's Agency division, scaling the group to well over 500 different agency partnerships. As the identity space has expanded it has opened unique opportunities for agencies and Rifkin's team has been at the forefront of leading that collaborative innovation. Prior to LiveRamp Rifkin ran Client Success at Skai (formerly Kenshoo) and co-founded his own boutique agency DNA. Rifkin currently resides in New York with his wife and two kids.
Brian Owens
SVP, Commerce Strategy
VMLYR
Brian Owens
SVP, Commerce Strategy
VMLYR
Brian currently serves as Senior Vice President of North America Commerce and Retailer Intelligence at VMLY&R COMMERCE, where he is a public speaker in topics related to commerce strategy, retailer intelligence, shopper marketing, growing Fortune 500 brands ,while building diverse cross-functional teams.
With over 15 years of extensive work experience in CPG market research, creative advertising, management consulting and brand management, and consumer packaged goods unified commerce direct selling to retailers . Brian's expertise includes global commerce though leadership, consumer trends, US/UK/China commerce strategies/predictions, global pharmacies, Walmart, Amazon, Grocery, Club, small format convenience/dollar stores, as well as wellness consumer technology.
Prior to VMLY&R COMMERCE, he was at Kantar Consulting ,Proctor & Gamble, and Reckitt Benckiser , where he transformed syndicated retail insights and lead a management consulting commerce practice teams for some of the world's largest and most successful brands.
Vinny Rinaldi
Head of Investment & Activation
Wavemaker at GroupM
Vinny Rinaldi
Head of Investment & Activation
Wavemaker at GroupM
Vinny brings a unique approach leading Investment & Activation at Wavemaker, after spending the past 15 years in various roles at startups like Adap.TV, ad tech giants like Google and Amazon, leading Audience Platforms and Strategy at dentsu and a 2019 Ad Age 40 under 40 nominee for his transformative work at The Hershey Company through the lens of Addressable Media.
An ad technology evangelist, Vinny is committed to being provocative in his approach to using data and analytics to address a brands planning, investment, activation and measurement ecosystem. He continues to push the system as he looks to disrupt the changing landscape of media from a linear world to an addressable first world.
Derek Walker
Chief Instigator
Brown & Browner advertising
Derek Walker
Chief Instigator
Brown & Browner advertising
Don’t you just hate these bios that tell you how sparkly, amazing the person is? So do I.
Yeah, I’m breaking the 4th wall by talking to you, but that’s what I do - advertising. I break through the clutter with a message that says something human to get and hold your attention. (Got you! You’re still reading)
After a lifetime of being paid to promote other people, their company, product or service, I’ve grown to dislike talking about myself. Who am I kidding, I never liked talking about me.
I’m a creative, who has been blessed to work in advertising for nearly 30 years. I’ve worked at great shops, and I’ve worked at bad shops. I’ve done work that I am so proud of, and then I have done work that years of therapy is just now helping me recover from.
I’m a creative.
I love starting stuff.
I’m an instigator.
Ashwin Navin
Co-Founder & CEO
Samba TV
Ashwin Navin
Co-Founder & CEO
Samba TV
Ashwin Navin is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Samba TV. He possesses over 20 years of co-founder and chief executive leadership with deep expertise in starting and scaling successful startups in the media technology space. Prior to co-founding Samba TV, Ashwin was the Co-Founder and President at BitTorrent, Inc., which he started in 2004 before leaving to launch Samba TV in 2008.
Megan Jones
EVP/Head of Media, Digitas North America
Digitas
Megan Jones
EVP/Head of Media, Digitas North America
Digitas
Megan Jones is EVP, Head of Media at Digitas North America. Prior to that, she headed up the agency’s Media Capability for the Boston region, and continues to serve as the media lead for several client teams. Over the past 20 years, Megan has orchestrated a wide range of media experiences that influence consumer behavior and drive business outcomes. A Cannes Media Lion winner, Megan has led media for such clients as Goodyear, Signet, Chevron, BlackRock, TJ Maxx, Reebok, Netflix and Volkswagen. She began her career at Arnold Worldwide (now Havas Media), before moving to San Francisco and joining one of WPP’s media agencies. Megan has been with Digitas since 2012.
Jeff Green
Chief Executive Officer and Founder
The Trade Desk
Jeff Green
Chief Executive Officer and Founder
The Trade Desk
Jeff Green is the Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Board Chairman of The Trade Desk, the world’s largest independent demand-side platform for media buying.
Green co-founded The Trade Desk in 2009. Following a successful IPO in 2016, the company has experiencedrapid growth with operations across 24 markets around the world. The Trade Desk has been recognized as one of Fortune’s 100 Fastest-Growing Companies, named to the Fortune Future 50 list, and as one of Fortune’s Best Places to Work.
The American Marketing Association named Green a ‘4 under 40’ emerging marketing leader. He and Co-Founder Dave Pickles were named ‘Entrepreneurs of the Year’ in 2017 by Ernst & Young.
Green has served on the Networks and Exchanges Quality Assurance Guidelines Committee for the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB), as well as on the boards of several advertising and technology companies in the U.S. and Europe. He currently serves on the board of the MMA.
Green and The Trade Desk have done work for hundreds of non-profits, including Water.org, The Charity Defense Council, Thorn, and Not Impossible.
In 2021, Green signed The Giving Pledge, committing to give away more than 90 percent of his wealth in his lifetime. Through the Jeff T. Green Family Foundation, Dataphilanthropy, he appliesdata science to address disparities in opportunities such as access to education and mentorship. He has established a mentorship program at California’s State University’s local outpost Cal State Channel Islands to address the student dropout rate. The program has scaled across the University of California system. Through his foundation, Green also established a new scholarship program for LGBTQ+ students via Equality Utah, a group that advocates for LGBTQ rights in Utah.
Prior to The Trade Desk, Green founded AdECN, the world’s first online advertising exchange, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2007.
Green resides in Ventura County, California.
Jennifer Vancini
General Partner
Mighty Capital
Jennifer Vancini
General Partner
Mighty Capital
Jennifer Vancini is a General Partner of Mighty Capital. She has been investing for >10 years, and prior to Mighty Capital built a single LP seed fund where she achieved a 15x cash-on-cash return. She has held executive roles in corporate and strategic business development, especially in the high-growth security and mobile sectors with companies such as Telefonica, Symbian/Nokia, Price Waterhouse, and Certicom, which she helped take public in Canada. Jennifer is also currently the Vice-Chair of a Dean’s Advisory Council at the UBC in Vancouver, where she completed her MBA.
Tracy Benson
Co-Founder and CEO
Obsesh
Tracy Benson
Co-Founder and CEO
Obsesh
Tracy is the CEO and co-founder of Obsesh, the sports marketplace platform connecting consumers to top athletes, and empowering athlete entrepreneurs to manage, merchandise, market, and monetize their fans online. Previously she was Global Chief Marketing Officer at Seek Thermal, Global Chief Marketing & Product Officer at Monster Inc. (maker of Beats by Dre and Monster headphones), Head of Marketing at Best Buy, Hyper-Growth Market leader at The Home Depot (where she developed the first athlete-work program for Olympians) and Sales & Marketing Manager at AT&T. Tracy was an All-Conference NCAA volleyball athlete at Western Illinois University before becoming a professional beach volleyball player. She earned an MBA in Marketing & Finance from the University of Notre Dame.
Ladan LaFitte
SVP, Business Intelligence and Research
Red Ventures
Ladan LaFitte
SVP, Business Intelligence and Research
Red Ventures
Ladan LaFitte is Senior Vice President of Data and Research at Red Ventures. In her current role, she is responsible for data strategy, advanced advertising products, measurement operations, and development of tools including audience graph and segmentation across the Red Ventures portfolio. Red Ventures' portfolio of over 100 trusted brands and businesses draws 248M monthly users worldwide - including iconic brands such as Healthline, CNET, Bankrate, and The Points Guy.
Lola Bakare
CMO Advisor & Inclusive Marketing Strategist
be/co
Lola Bakare
CMO Advisor & Inclusive Marketing Strategist
be/co
Lola Bakare is an Inclusive Marketing Strategist, creator of Maximize The Movement™, & founder of be/co, a boutique consultancy that empowers brands and marketing leaders with strategic guidance, training, and workshops that transform effectiveness to unleash new levels of success.
Lola is an Anthem Awards Finalist and has recently been named one of 15 2022 LinkedIn Top Voices in Marketing & Advertising.
Her writing and commentary can be found in major publications including Adweek, Harvard Business Review, The Muse, Marketing Brew, & Business Insider.
Kimberly Bloomston
Vice President of Product Management
LiveRamp
Kimberly Bloomston
Vice President of Product Management
LiveRamp
Kimberly Bloomston (she/her) has over 15 years of experience leading product management and business operations. She is currently the VP of Core Platform and Data Marketplace at LiveRamp. Prior to joining LiveRamp, Kimberly has served in executive roles leading Product, Design, and Operations across a variety of software companies and industries. She has experience leading strategic initiatives that focus on maturing and expanding solutions in the midst of market and company transformation. Kimberly loves tackling hard problems and is passionate about design thinking, story telling, collaboration, and enabling product operations to scale and grow a business. In addition to Product Management, she has led sales and partner programs, managed services, and customer success. Kimberly moved to California in 2019 with her kids, Mason age 10 & Avery age 9. When Kimberly is not working, you’ll find her exploring the outdoors, working out in her home gym, making art, and spending time with her family.
Shauna Brown
Director, Advanced Audiences & Analytics
Discovery
Shauna Brown
Director, Advanced Audiences & Analytics
Discovery
Born and raised in the Midwest, Shauna made a move to New York City in 2013 and transitioned to ad sales from a previous career in retail sales management. Working on client accounts in her early days that focused mainly on advanced advertising gave her a base knowledge of how to plan and execute media using data. She has extensive experience in the Addressable, Advanced TV, and OTT/CTV/digital marketplace, with heavy use of data for targeting and attribution on media campaigns. Now based in Chicago, Shauna oversees data partnerships and activation for Discovery Engage, the advanced advertising division at Discovery Inc, which works across the portfolio of Discovery owned networks both in linear and digital.
Justin Rosen
SVP Data & Analytics
Ampersand
Justin Rosen
SVP Data & Analytics
Ampersand
Justin Rosen joined Ampersand in 2018, concurrent with the foundation of Ampersand’s Advanced TV practice. Since then, Justin has taken on leadership for all Data, Analytics, and Insights at Ampersand. His team manages the development of new and innovative uses of data in support of Ampersand’s mission to transform the TV industry to audience-based, multiscreen, and accountable. In his time with the company, he has led the implementation of Ampersand’s addressable data capabilities, established Ampersand’s Total TV and Incremental Reach solutions, and has advanced audience-first tactics and storytelling connected to Ampersand’s AND Platform. Justin also works alongside Ampersand’s MVPD owners and affiliates to ensure consistent methodology, data governance, and workflows.
Justin received an MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business, and a BA from Cornell University.
Justin lives in South Orange, NJ with his wife and two sons.
Katrina Cho
Head of Cloud Partnerships
LiveRamp
Katrina Cho
Head of Cloud Partnerships
LiveRamp
Katrina Cho leads cloud and ecosystems partnerships at LiveRamp. Her mission is to enable enterprises to deliver on exceptional customer experiences by unlocking the power of data in the cloud. Katrina previously served as Managing Director, New Verticals at LiveRamp where she helped pioneer the expansion of LiveRamp's applications into new use cases and industries such as Healthcare, Customer Experience, IoT and beyond. She has over a decade of experience helping brands achieve their digital transformation goals with cutting edge technology platforms in Marketing and Customer Engagement. Katrina holds a B.S. in Biopsychology from the University of California, Davis and is a SF Bay Area native where she currently lives with her husband and 1 year-old Shiba Inu puppy.
Want to partner up? Have an idea? Let's talk about what's next in the world of the evolving modern data infrastructure stack. Email me at katrina.cho@liveramp.com.
Dan Stein
SVP Partnerships, Crossix Analytics
Veeva Systems
Dan Stein
SVP Partnerships, Crossix Analytics
Veeva Systems
Dan Stein currently serves as SVP, Crossix Analytics Partnerships at Veeva. In his role, he develops and manages strategic relationships with leading companies in ad tech, TV, data, identity, media, and content owners, and leads the strategy for the future without third-party cookies. He previously held leadership roles at Veeva Crossix in Product Strategy and Marketing where he oversaw the development and delivery of DIFA, the leading cloud-based analytics platform for healthcare marketers, and Veeva Crossix Audiences, providing privacy-safe health-relevant audiences for industry.
Prior to joining Crossix in 2012, Dan spent 8 years at Digitas and Digitas Health, where he led the Strategy and Analysis group in New York. He gained additional healthcare experience at PricewaterhouseCoopers where he designed and built comprehensive health & welfare systems for large companies. Dan graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in Economics
Laurent Cordier
Chief Partnerships Officer
MediaMath
Laurent Cordier
Chief Partnerships Officer
MediaMath
Laurent Cordier has a strong global operating experience, running P&Ls at high-growth digital companies like Google for over 20 years. He currently oversees strategic, media and tech partnerships at Mediamath. Prior to MediaMath, Cordier served as Managing Director for Google’s Partners Solutions Business in North America and globally, working extensively with key players across the programmatic ecosystem. Cordier also served in various sales and business development roles at KPMG and Dell, and most recently was CRO for HeadSpin, a mobile digital experience platform. Originally from France, Laurent has been living in New York for more than 10 years.
John Sabella
Chief Technology Officer
PubMatic
John Sabella
Chief Technology Officer
PubMatic
John has been a leader in digital media technology for over 20 years and brings significant experience and a long track record of success. He joined PubMatic in 2017 as VP, Engineering and was responsible for the product vision and technical execution of SDK and Unified Ad Server technology. In his current role of Chief Technology officer, John is responsible for establishing the company’s technical vision and positioning PubMatic for future growth.
John previously served as vice president of engineering at DoubleClick. At that time, DFP was a new product, with one customer. During John’s tenure, they experienced growth to over 3,000 publishers worldwide. In addition to delivering DFP, John was responsible for delivering DFA and DartMail. John was also in charge of the development for NetGravity’s on-prem ad server system after the merger. At DoubleClick, John began and grew the product management function.
After DoubleClick, John joined adMarketplace as COO & CTO, where he was in charge of product management. While there, John created and delivered eBay Keywords, in partnership with eBay. John then joined NYC-based ad network Undertone as CTO. At Undertone, John created the ad server to support their rapidly growing business. John also built and delivered the extensive video and rich-media ad system that Undertone was known for.
Prior to PubMatic, John was CTO at Vungle. At Vungle, a large CPI-based in-app video ad network, John was able to overhaul the infrastructure, enabling the company to fulfill its ambitious growth trajectory. John also delivered a new SDK that was MRAID compatible, providing the flexibility to empower the in-app video user experience.
John is a graduate of Columbia University.
Bill Michels
EVP, Product & Engineering
The Trade Desk
Bill Michels
EVP, Product & Engineering
The Trade Desk
Bill Michels is Executive Vice President, Product & Engineering at The Trade Desk, where he works on Unified ID 2.0 and other products to drive data driven buying on the open internet. Prior to TTD he was Chief Data Officer at Foursquare and Chief Operating Officer at Factual, where he managed product, engineering, and partnerships. He also worked at Yahoo! in product management and business development and at UBS in equity research covering technology and telecom. He holds a BA from Colby College and an MBA from Columbia Business School.
Davis Wilkinson
Senior Product Manager, Federated Platform and Cloud
LiveRamp
Davis Wilkinson
Senior Product Manager, Federated Platform and Cloud
LiveRamp
Davis Wilkinson is a product manager working on federation technologies at LiveRamp. He joined LiveRamp as part of its acquisition of DataFleets, where he was a member of the founding team. Davis holds a BA from Harvard University and previously worked as a venture capital investor at Rose Park Advisors. His hobbies include cooking, reading, and playing with his puppy, Theo.
Stacy Chan
Head of Digital Investment
PHD Media
Stacy Chan
Head of Digital Investment
PHD Media
Stacy is a seasoned Digital Marketing Leader with experience in executing advertising campaigns across all formats (display, mobile, video, native, CTV) for clients driving proven results for ROI. She has been overseeing a national team ensuring innovative advertising strategy and operational excellence in consumer audience discovery and digital campaign delivery.
She is adept at building and leading high-performing teams, leveraging her diverse background in innovation, customer experience, data science, content, & digital marketing, that deliver profitable growth.
Stacy has worked with Fortune 500 companies to drive ROAS across industries including CHANEL, Diageo, Footlocker, Delta, Audi, VW, Porsche, MailChimp, Tik Tok, Dominos, SAP, Hormel, SCJohnson, All Birds, LG, and McDonald’s.
Scott Ronay
VP - Publisher Addressability (ATS)
LiveRamp
Scott Ronay
VP - Publisher Addressability (ATS)
LiveRamp
Scott Ronay has over 25+ years of sales and BD experience in the data and technology industry ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies. Scott has been with LiveRamp since 2015 most notably leading the platform sales team through its explosive growth. Now he's leading the Publisher side of the Addressability team which is tasked with helping publishers and the publisher ecosystem deliver value to their advertisers and drive revenue. Scott enjoys the mission of helping to future-proof the industry and giving all publishers a chance to compete in the marketplace.
Katherine Strieder
Global Chief Product Officer
MiQ
Katherine Strieder
Global Chief Product Officer
MiQ
Katherine Strieder is a digital media executive with twenty years of experience evolving platform and business strategy to best meet the needs of brands and consumers in the evolving digital ecosystem. As a product leader at DoubleClick/Google, Viacom, Adobe, PubMatic and MiQ she has played a central role in creating the digital world our consumers know today.
Lynne d Johnson
Content Director
AdMonsters
Lynne d Johnson
Content Director
AdMonsters
Lynne d Johnson is the Content Director at AdMonsters. In previous roles, she was GM Digital at Vibe and Spin, head of content and community for Fast Company Digital, a digital and social media strategist at Waggener Edstrom and R/GA, and SVP Social Media at the Advertising Research Foundation. She also writes and speaks about emerging tech, AR, blockchain, and diversity in tech, media, and marketing.
Lauri Vela
SVP Demand Generation
Synchrony
Lauri Vela
SVP Demand Generation
Synchrony
Lauri Vela, SVP Demand Generation is responsible for the strategy, tools, and technology used to deliver Channel Activation and Performance for Synchrony. With deep knowledge of both retail and payments; Lauri began her career with Nordstrom, moving in 2000 to her first international assignment with Harrods Ltd in the United Kingdom, where she led CRM, Loyalty, and Payments.
Lauri returned to the U.S. with GE Consumer Finance in 2003 and in 2007 returned to London, joining The Body Shop International as the Global CRM, Loyalty, and e-Commerce Director where she led the development of a global CRM and e-Commerce strategy across 62 markets. Lauri remained in London joining SpaceNK Beauty Apothecary as the Chief Marketing Officer. With a growing business focus on the importance of CRM and Digital, in early 2011, Lauri accepted a global role leading CRM, e-Commerce, and Loyalty for Richemont Fashion and Accessories.
Lauri returned to GE Retail Finance and the U.S. in September of 2013, post Synchrony’s separation from GE, Lauri was presented with the opportunity to build out a Digital Marketing CoE which has since expanded into her current role.
Quentin George
Partner
McKinsey & Co.
Quentin George
Partner
McKinsey & Co.
Quentin is an experienced digital, creative, and media agency executive who has served ambitious marketing leaders for 25+ years to scale and transform their businesses. He currently leads the commerce media service line for McKinsey & Company.
Before joining the firm, he served in executive leadership roles in agencies and holding companies, including RAZORFISH, ORGANIC, and IPG/MEDIABRANDS.
In 2008, he co-founded the first agency trading desk, CADREON, which sparked the programmatic revolution. He started his career by co-founding one of the first digital agencies, ELECTRIC OCEAN.
Quentin is also a certified sommelier and winemaker and can frequently be found shouting at the television while watching South African rugby and cricket.
Chris Moore
Head of Strategic Partnerships
Publishers Clearing House
Chris Moore
Head of Strategic Partnerships
Publishers Clearing House
Chris oversees strategic partnerships and programmatic revenue at Publishers Clearing House. His team is responsible for monetizing their digital properties which focus on free-to-play, chance to win entertainment. This includes developing strategies to implement emerging technologies as well as establishing superior media and data partnerships across web and app based PCH properties. Chris has been in digital for 15 years and has a unique perspective of the industry given his sophisticated conversations with numerous golf partners over the course of his career.
LaFawn Davis
Senior Vice President, ESG
Indeed
LaFawn Davis
Senior Vice President, ESG
Indeed
LaFawn Davis is Senior Vice President of Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) at Indeed. She leads teams that focus on Sustainability, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging, Accessibility, Social Impact, Inclusive Hiring Products and AI Ethics. The focus of Indeed’s ESG commitments are to close the opportunity gap, break down bias and barriers, and conserve the environment. LaFawn is a globally-recognized operator with 20 years of experience serving in leadership roles at innovative Fortune 50, 100 and unicorn technology companies. She is a frequent contributor to articles, advisor and speaker at events and conferences worldwide. LaFawn has been honored with Entrepreneur Magazine’s 100 Women of Impact, Fast Company’s Queer50 two years in a row and San Francisco Business Times’s Most Influential Women in Business. She serves as an Advisory Board member for Lesbians Who Tech and Power to Fly. And, is also a Limited Partner in Operator Collective, an Angel Investor and a Fellow of the Black Venture Institute.
Travis Scoles
SVP Advanced Advertising
Paramount
Travis Scoles
SVP Advanced Advertising
Paramount
Travis Scoles is Senior Vice President of Advanced Advertising at ViacomCBS. In this role, Scoles oversees product strategy, development, and operation for Vantage, ViacomCBS’ advanced advertising solution. He is responsible for driving product innovation and adoption within the Vantage portfolio, across linear, digital, and addressable formats. Scoles also is actively involved in driving thought and product leadership throughout the advanced advertising space.
Scoles joined ViacomCBS in February 2020. Previously, he was a Partner in Media Science at Known, a boutique agency and consultancy, where he specialized in the design and construction of media optimization engines and strategies.
Prior to working in the media space, he led quantitative research initiatives primarily in the technology industry. Scoles lives in Darien, CT with his wife and two children.
Christina Shareef
Head of Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
Reddit, Inc
Christina Shareef
Head of Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
Reddit, Inc
Christina Shareef has spent her career helping companies reach their potential as a global Human Resources leader who specializes in building inclusive workplaces and corporate value through market advantage, leveraging employees’ unique skills and perspectives, employee engagement, and workplace culture. Christina is currently the Head of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging at Reddit.
Prior to joining Reddit, Christina served as Head of Talent Acquisition and Diversity & Inclusion for MRC Media. She has also had the unique opportunity to lead both Operational and Human Resources functions as a Chief Operating Officer and Head of Human Resources within the healthcare industry and has championed Human Resources efforts throughout the US and Latin America for both large media organizations and start-up organizations, alike. She is also the Founder of 404 Strategic Consulting Group--a firm focused on helping organizations and individuals reach their greatest potential through an inclusive lens.
Sharing 20 years of experience in the Human Resources and Legal fields, both internationally and domestically, Christina develops passionate and purposeful people strategies and serves as an Advisor, Consultant, and trusted Business Partner. Christina approaches her work with the understanding that each of us—every one of us—have ample opportunities to learn from, engage with, and support someone who is different from ourselves.
David Algranati
Chief Product Officer
Comscore
David Algranati
Chief Product Officer
Comscore
David Algranati, Ph.D., is an accomplished executive with a proven track record of product innovation, market research and analytics.
In his role as Chief Product Officer, Mr. Algranati leads an organization driven to helping clients meet their business goals by creating industry-leading media measurements solutions.
“Comscore has a unique ability to process and understand large amounts of data,” he says. “My team strives to use this wealth of information to design products and services that meet the needs of the industry.”
Before joining the Comscore team, he served as SVP, Television Product Innovation & Custom Research at Rentrak and held executive research positions at Experian Simmons including Director of Integrated Marketing Solutions. While at Simmons, he also led the statistics and research teams, overseeing all statistical responsibilities for the company including custom research projects.
Mr. Algranati holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from The George Washington University, a Master of Science in Statistics, a Master of Philosophy in Public Policy and a Ph.D. in Statistics and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University.
When he is not working on the next generation of media measurement solutions, he is a devoted boxing fan, attending more than 2,000 boxing matches in the past 20 years.
Carrie Tharp
Vice President, Google Cloud Retail
Google, Inc.
Carrie Tharp
Vice President, Google Cloud Retail
Google, Inc.
Carrie Tharp is the VP of Retail & Consumer at Google Cloud. Carrie is responsible for creating and executing Google Cloud’s global product, partner, and go-to-market strategy in the Retail industry - helping Retail & Consumer businesses unlock the power of the Cloud, ML/AI to drive value for their businesses and improve customer experiences. Previous to Google, Carrie has a broad range of experience in the retail sector through a range of CXO roles across different segments. Most recently, Carrie was at The Neiman Marcus Group where she served as Chief Digital & Marketing Officer and was responsible for all aspects of its e-commerce business across Neiman Marcus, Bergdorf Goodman, Last Call and Horchow brands. She developed the company's customer experience focused, "digital first" strategy and the supporting technology roadmap to evolve Neiman's approach to the changing retail landscape driving 6+ quarters of positive comps. Prior to joining The Neiman Marcus Group, Carrie served as Senior Vice President of e-commerce and Chief Marketing Officer at Fossil Group, Inc., responsible for global e-commerce and online operations of all owned and licensed brands in the Fossil portfolio. Prior to Fossil, Carrie held various technology, operator and strategy roles at Travelocity, Bain & Company, Dean Foods, and TXU. Carrie also currently serves as an independent director on the Vera Bradley (VRA) Board of Directors.
Carrie holds a bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems from Texas A&M University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern. She currently resides in Dallas, TX, with her husband, Mark, and their three girls. In her spare time, she enjoys traveling, scuba diving, tennis, skiing, and the arts.
Emilee Lord
Director of Communications
Public Democracy
Emilee Lord
Director of Communications
Public Democracy
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
Chief Executive Officer
National Society of Black Engineers
Janeen Uzzell
Chief Executive Officer
National Society of Black Engineers
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.
Adam Solomon
Global Head of Data Collaboration & Interoperability Solutions for Advertising & Marketing
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Adam Solomon
Global Head of Data Collaboration & Interoperability Solutions for Advertising & Marketing
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Adam Solomon is Global Head of Data Collaboration & Interoperability Solutions for Advertising & Marketing at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Adam drives development and adoption of cloud-based solutions to help marketers, agencies, media platforms, and advertising/marketing technology companies address industry-wide challenges for consumer privacy, identity, and multi-party analytics.
Adam has over 22 years experience in the advertising and marketing industry, and is co-inventor on seven issued U.S. patents for video advertising technology. His diverse experience includes leadership roles for product management and go-to-market teams at ViacomCBS, Time Inc., Hearst, PebblePost, and Lotame. He is also a trained aerospace engineer and patent attorney.
Matthew Papa
SVP of Global Partnerships
Captify
Matthew Papa
SVP of Global Partnerships
Captify
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 Andrews
Chief Diversity & Social Impact Officer
Momentive
Antoine Andrews
Chief Diversity & Social Impact Officer
Momentive
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.
Mark Heitke
Director, Ad Products, Inventory and Yield Management
Best Buy Ads
Mark Heitke
Director, Ad Products, Inventory and Yield Management
Best Buy Ads
Mark Heitke is the director of product and audiences for Best Buy’s advertising business. While a veteran of retail media today, once upon a time, Mark was a Blue Shirt at Best Buy, where he saw firsthand the value of building genuine relationships and creating exceptional customer experiences. Today, Mark focuses on customer experience to his role leading advertising products and audience management. He believes if you serve real human needs with advertising, client benefits and returns will follow. Mark and his wife live in Minneapolis, where on the weekends, you can find them enjoying that lake life, checking out a local craft brewery, or—let’s be honest—chasing their two young sons.
Margo Hock
Vice President, Digital Partnerships
AnalyticsIQ
Margo Hock
Vice President, Digital Partnerships
AnalyticsIQ
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
CEO and Co-Founder
Good American
Emma Grede
CEO and Co-Founder
Good American
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 Bryson
Chief Customer Officer
Qualytics
Stewart Bryson
Chief Customer Officer
Qualytics
Stewart is Chief Customer Officer at Qualytics, and the Founder and former CEO of Red Pill Analytics. He is an internationally recognized writer, speaker, and podcast guest 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
Global Head of Media, Entertainment and Advertising Vertical
Snowflake
Bill Stratton
Global Head of Media, Entertainment and Advertising Vertical
Snowflake
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
Head of Addressable
Roku
Julie Anson
Head of Addressable
Roku
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
Head of Strategic Communications
Aneesh Raman
Head of Strategic Communications
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
EVP, Product & Technology
Penske Media Corporation
Jenny Connelly
EVP, Product & Technology
Penske Media Corporation
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.
Natasha Betau
Principal Product Manager, Data Marketplace
LiveRamp
Natasha Betau
Principal Product Manager, Data Marketplace
LiveRamp
I'm a Product Manager who has been designing and delivering SaaS solutions to enterprise customers for over a decade. I am a devoted customer advocate that excels in “bridging the gap” between the user, business, and technical communities while working toward a delightful experience for every user.
Colin O’Malley
Principal
Lucid Privacy Group
Colin O’Malley
Principal
Lucid Privacy Group
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 Teter
Principal Solutions Engineer
LiveRamp
Dash Teter
Principal Solutions Engineer
LiveRamp
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.
Samuel Baroukh
Chief Marketing Officer
Nestlé France
Samuel Baroukh
Chief Marketing Officer
Nestlé France
Samuel and his team are leading the Marketing & eBusiness function for Nestle in the French market. His responsibilities span across Consumer understanding (insights & Data), Marketing & eBusiness activations (Content, Media, CRM, eCommerce, ...) and Innovations.
He has over 18years of experiences building Brands and driving sales at P&G & Nestle across France and the UK.
Sharawn Tipton
Chief People Officer
LiveRamp
Sharawn Tipton
Chief People Officer
LiveRamp
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.
Anil Charavarthy
President, Digital Experience Business
Adobe
Anil Charavarthy
President, Digital Experience Business
Adobe
As President, Digital Experience Business, Anil Chakravarthy drives the vision and operations for Adobe’s Digital Experience business, one of the world’s largest SAAS businesses and the leader in the Customer Experience Management (CXM) category. In addition, he is responsible for the company’s worldwide field operations.
Joining Adobe in January 2020, Anil brings decades of product innovation and industry expertise to his role leading strategy, product management, engineering and marketing for Adobe Experience Cloud. With solutions for data and insights, content and commerce, customer journey management, and advertising, Adobe Experience Cloud is powering digital businesses across both B2B and B2C for companies of every size. The foundation of Adobe Experience Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, is the industry’s first purpose-built CXM platform, enabling the delivery of personalized customer experiences in real-time at scale.
In his role overseeing worldwide field operations, Anil leads Adobe’s global enterprise sales organization and customer success functions, which are focused on supporting brands as they navigate digital transformation.
Anil joined Adobe from Informatica, a global leader in enterprise cloud data management, where he served as chief executive officer from 2016 to 2019. At Informatica, Anil led the successful transformation of the company to cloud and subscription services. Anil joined Informatica in September 2013 as the executive vice president and chief product officer responsible for product development, product management, and product marketing.
Prior to Informatica, for nearly a decade, Anil held leadership roles at Symantec Corporation. Anil was the executive vice president of Information Security at Symantec, responsible for overseeing engineering, product management and operations for an extensive product portfolio including Data Loss Prevention, E-Mail and Web Security (on-premise and cloud), Managed Services, Trust Services and Authentication. Additionally, Anil led multiple product groups, including Endpoint Protection, Mobile Security and Management, Encryption, Storage and High-Availability, and India Product Operations as well as Enterprise Global Consulting.
Prior to Symantec, Anil led product management for enterprise security services at VeriSign. Anil began his career at McKinsey & Company, where he rose to become the co-leader of the E-Business Practice in the Business Technology Office in Silicon Valley.
Anil received a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from the Institute of Technology, Varanasi, India. Additionally, Anil received his Master of Science and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Anil serves on the board of Ansys, and previously served on the board of USAA Federal Savings Bank.
Jason Niemi
Global Technology Director
Kimberly-Clark
Jason Niemi
Global Technology Director
Kimberly-Clark
Global marketing technology steward obsessed with continuous learning and talent development focused on creating better consumer experiences and driving business performance.
Ben Antier
Co-Founder & CEO
Publica
Ben Antier
Co-Founder & CEO
Publica
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 Hills
SVP Strategy & Partnerships
Dstillery
Evan Hills
SVP Strategy & Partnerships
Dstillery
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.
Sean Haggerty
Senior Account Director, Enterprise
LiveRamp
Sean Haggerty
Senior Account Director, Enterprise
LiveRamp
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.
Joe Kyriakoza
VP and General Manager, Polk Automotive Solutions
IHS Markit
Joe Kyriakoza
VP and General Manager, Polk Automotive Solutions
IHS Markit
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 Moffett
Principal Analyst
Forrester
Tina Moffett
Principal Analyst
Forrester
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 Seideneck
VP, Digital
Giant Eagle, Inc
Rochelle Seideneck
VP, Digital
Giant Eagle, Inc
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
Senior Director, Marketing Automation
Transamerica
Vanessa Diaz
Senior Director, Marketing Automation
Transamerica
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 Stanhope
VP, Principal Analyst
Forrester
Joe Stanhope
VP, Principal Analyst
Forrester
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
President and Founder
Public Democracy
Eric Sapp
President and Founder
Public Democracy
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.
David Schwartz
Director, Digital and Social Media
National General Insurance
David Schwartz
Director, Digital and Social Media
National General Insurance
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
Head of Marketing Analytics & Insights
Prudential Financial
Charlotte Tsou
Head of Marketing Analytics & Insights
Prudential Financial
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
Director, Media Strategy & Investment Performance
Papa Johns
Chris Hawk
Director, Media Strategy & Investment Performance
Papa Johns
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.
Christopher Park
Senior Program Manager
Microsoft
Christopher Park
Senior Program Manager
Microsoft
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.
Joanna O’Connell
VP, Principal Analyst
Forrester
Joanna O’Connell
VP, Principal Analyst
Forrester
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
Chief Strategy Officer, TV
LiveRamp
Jay Prasad
Chief Strategy Officer, TV
LiveRamp
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.
Travis Barnes
Product Manager
LiveRamp
Travis Barnes
Product Manager
LiveRamp
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 Affinito
Global Product Marketing Lead, Identity Solutions
LiveRamp
Tom Affinito
Global Product Marketing Lead, Identity Solutions
LiveRamp
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.
Omar Tawakol
VP & GM Cisco Customer Experience as a Service BU
Cisco
Omar Tawakol
VP & GM Cisco Customer Experience as a Service BU
Cisco
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.
David Gilmore
VP - Head of Product, Safe Haven
LiveRamp
David Gilmore
VP - Head of Product, Safe Haven
LiveRamp
David Gilmore is a serial entrepreneur with a track record of building elite global teams, creating and launching enterprise software products built on emerging technologies, and executing complex GTMs in healthcare, adtech, national security, and finserv. Currently, David leads federated (multi-cloud) and privacy-preserving analytics products at LiveRamp where he serves as the Head of Product for LiveRamp Safe Haven. Previously, David was the CEO at Datafleets, which was acquired by LiveRamp in February 2021.
Joe Keating
Associate Director, Insight and Analytics
Hill's Pet Nutrition
Joe Keating
Associate Director, Insight and Analytics
Hill's Pet Nutrition
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-Founder & Co-CEO
Numberly
Thibaut Munier
Co-Founder & Co-CEO
Numberly
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 Milliken
VP Marketing Transformation
The Clorox Company
Doug Milliken
VP Marketing Transformation
The Clorox Company
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
SVP, Commercial Strategy and Excellence
LiveRamp
Daniella Harkins
SVP, Commercial Strategy and Excellence
LiveRamp
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.
Emily-Jane Hoffman
Managing Director, Enterprise
LiveRamp
Emily-Jane Hoffman
Managing Director, Enterprise
LiveRamp
Emily-Jane Hoffman is Managing Director of LiveRamp’s Strategic Enterprise team partnering with some of the world’s largest brands to leverage data driven solutions and drive meaningful business outcomes. Prior to LiveRamp, Emily spent over fifteen years in a variety of leadership positions across the AdTech/MarTech ecosystem including Segment, MediaMath and Yahoo. She is customer obsessed, results driven, and a passionate driver of growth. Emily holds a BA in English and Spanish from Muhlenberg College and is an aspiring writer. She lives in the Bay Area with her husband, three sons, and pup.
David Minsker
Management Consultant, Financial Services, LiveRamp; Former Head of Marketing Information Management, Citigroup
Financial Services
David Minsker
Management Consultant, Financial Services, LiveRamp; Former Head of Marketing Information Management, Citigroup
Financial Services
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.
Samantha Gaw
VP, Analytics
Jellyfish
Samantha Gaw
VP, Analytics
Jellyfish
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
Head of Marketing
Nextdoor
Maryam Banikarim
Head of Marketing
Nextdoor
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 Mehta
Personalization, Data & Analytics, North America Lead
Accenture Interactive
Ankit Mehta
Personalization, Data & Analytics, North America Lead
Accenture Interactive
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
Management Consultant, Data, Identity & Retail Media Expert
LiveRamp
Michelle Dooley
Management Consultant, Data, Identity & Retail Media Expert
LiveRamp
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
EVP, Analytics & Marketing Science
Tinuiti
Andrew Richardson
EVP, Analytics & Marketing Science
Tinuiti
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
Account Executive
LiveRamp
Brittany Mitchell
Account Executive
LiveRamp
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 K Mathews
VP, Precision Marketing
Conagra Brands
Dane K Mathews
VP, Precision Marketing
Conagra Brands
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.
Joran Lawrence
VP, Product Management
LiveRamp
Joran Lawrence
VP, Product Management
LiveRamp
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
VP, Strategy & Global Data Ecosystem
PepsiCo
Mark Risis
VP, Strategy & Global Data Ecosystem
PepsiCo
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
EVP, Global Media
IRI
Jennifer Pelino
EVP, Global Media
IRI
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.
Ivonne Kinser
Vice President of Marketing and Innovation
Avocados From Mexico
Ivonne Kinser
Vice President of Marketing and Innovation
Avocados From Mexico
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.
Tia Cummings-Hopkins
SVP, Global Brand Marketing
Square
Tia Cummings-Hopkins
SVP, Global Brand Marketing
Square
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.