SPEAKERS
Presenters from Leading Brands & Platforms
View our amazing lineup of thought leaders and learn more about them!
Amazon
Anish Kannan
Sr. Manager of Product Management, Alexa Smart Home
Anish leads a team of product managers who build consumer facing experiences across the areas of energy, speech language understanding, local control of devices, and organization of smart devices in a home.
Anish has been working on Alexa for most of his 7+ years at Amazon. He was responsible for launching some of the foundational features that help Alexa customers discover and play the music they love. His work included launching the music experience for customers on the first Echo Show, then growing that customer base to millions of users worldwide and enabling Alexa to control premium music speakers like Sonos and Bose. Prior to Amazon, Anish worked at Microsoft helping developers build and launch applications on Microsoft Azure. Before that, he helped build products for hospitals, empowering them to offer better patient care.
Amazon
Greg Jones
Principal Product Manager for Amazon Web Services IoT SmartHome Services
Greg is responsible for product direction and strategy and has been with AWS for almost 2 years. Since the mid-90’s, he has been deeply involved in the IoT industriy and was one of the key leaders in it’s development. Starting with the opportunity to lead one of the pioneering companies in the market (SensorLogic), he was instrumental in the technical growth during the transition from the M2M (Machine to Machine) market to today’s modern IoT solutions.
Greg is a veteran technologist with a wide base of technical experience especially in the areas of smarthome, broadband, embedded, wireless, and IoT (Internet of Things). Using his entrepreneurial spirit, Greg has founded, co-founded, or led venture capital based technology firms, spearheaded efforts in large organizations creating significant growth, and managed large and small teams in all areas including engineering, operations, sales, and marketing.
Amazon
Hana Mundhe
Sr. Manager, Amazon Ads’ Publisher Monetization
Hana’s team is responsible for creating and delivering programmatic deals across Amazon’s first party publishers and developing go-to-market strategies for Streaming TV ad products on Prime Video, Freevee, Twitch, and Fire TV. In her 8+ years at Amazon, Hana has worked in Retail, Prime Video, and Amazon Ads. Prior to Amazon, Hana worked in book publishing for 7 years. Hana holds a BA from Princeton University and an MBA from Columbia University. She lives in Westchester, NY.
Amazon
Marinn Jackson
Head of US Account Management for Amazon Ads
Marinn is a versatile media executive with a curiosity for the space. She brings a unique mix of strategic thinking, creativity, thought leadership, storytelling and cultural leadership. Marinn is the head of US Account Management for Amazon Ads, leading a team of 400+ account managers delivering full funnel, consultative strategies and consumer insights to customers in order to grow their brand awareness and drive performance. Previously, she was at Verizon Media (Yahoo) where she was VP, Head of Premium Sales & Strategy, managing multiple teams with a goal of growing revenue through innovative ad and content experiences. Prior to joining Verizon Media, Marinn was Head of Industry at Facebook leading the strategy, go to market and sales efforts across the restaurant category. She was responsible for guiding clients through their transformation to a mobile first world. Before that, Marinn spent 18 years at Viacom, where she was most recently SVP of Strategic Accounts, running partnerships across the top advertising verticals.
A1 Garage
Robert Brous
Head of Marketing at private equity group, A1 Garage
Robert Brous is a dynamic marketing leader known for his ability to generate results, curiosity that fuels his strategic thinking and is an ardent advocate of leveraging technology. His data-driven mindset empowers him to harness the power of numbers to guide informed decision-making, while his skill as a brand storyteller enables him to craft compelling narratives that resonate deeply with customers. Having held pivotal roles at rue21, Spirit Halloween, and Spencer Gifts, he has overseen profitable digital P&L’s that have not only resulted in robust customer acquisition but also in the maximization of technology. In 2021, Robert relocated to Phoenix to lead Meritage Homes' digital transformation endeavors and most recently has taken on the role of Head of Marketing at A1 Garage. Robert recently completed a Post Graduate program at Wharton, specializing in AI for Decision Makers and Business Strategy. This comprehensive curriculum delved into the implications of AI, Machine Learning, and Big Data across various business facets, from Marketing and Finance to Human Resources and Governance. Before his marketing career, Robert's passion for classical music led him to study at institutions like Juilliard and Peabody Conservatory. His musical journey included performing the Virginia Symphony and Philadelphia Orchestra.
Board Advisor & C-Level Brand Leader
Francine Della Badia
"Fran" Della Badia loves transformative times, building exceptional teams, and managing the intersection of technology and brick and mortar and all the complexities of integrating retail, digital and virtual platforms. Fran is a board advisor and C-suite executive driving business transformation, profitability, and growth for public and private retail companies. She started her career as a merchant and is an expert in consumer brand building and repositioning. In her most recent role as the President of AM Retail Group, a subsidiary of the $3B G-III Apparel Group, Fran led the direct-to-consumer division whose brand portfolio included DKNY, Donna Karan and Karl Lagerfeld Paris. Also, a brand advisor for early-stage consumer lifestyle, footwear and accessories companies, a former board member of Senreve, Fran advises and coaches CEOs on strategic growth, brand strategy, product development, raising capital, talent acquisition and stakeholder communication. Prior to AM Retail Group, Fran was the CEO of leading brands including Bonobos. Previously, she spent 16 years at Coach, Inc. (now part of Tapestry), holding progressive leadership roles culminating as President of North America Retail, where she managed a $2.5B retail and outlet P&L with 500 stores and a team of over 10,000 employees.
Dynamic Yield
Jessica Dearolf
Senior Sales Director leading FI Vertical
Jessica is a seasoned professional with over 9 years of dedicated expertise in the world of personalization, with a focus on the dynamic landscape of the financial services industry. Jessica's strategic insights on blending data-driven strategies with innovative Dynamic Yield technology have assisted yielding impactful results for clients across a wide variety of industries including finance, retail, grocery and more.
Google
Bernie Milan
Global AI Business & Solutions Specialist
High performing sales leader and business development strategist with 20 years of enterprise technology, media sales, and international experience. Diversity and inclusion champion, passionate about leading cultural change in technology companies.
Focused on delivering innovative enterprise cloud, data & AI, security and productivity solutions that create value for global customers.
Google
Brett DiDonato
Cloud Customer Engineer, AI/ML, Generative AI
Brett has spent his career bringing cutting edge technology products to market and running product teams across engineering, design and data scientist disciplines.
IAB
Jeffrey Bustos
VP of Measurement Addressability Data
Jeffrey Bustos is the VP of Measurement Addressability Data at the IAB where he is leading standards and best practices in retail media, data collaboration, and the future of measurement in a post-cookie world. He lead the development of the Retail Media Buyers Guide and IAB/MRC Retail Media Measurement Guidelines – out for public comment. In addition, he is a proponent of privacy enhancing technology and has developed best practices and guidance on data collaboration. In his spare time Jeffrey enjoys reading while drinking hot chocolate.
Instacart
Dave DeRobbio
Partnerships at Instacart
A results-driven digital marketing leader with a history of partnership with key clients, exceeding goals, understanding developing ad tech, and driving multimillion-dollar revenue growth. A dynamic manager and mentor with a reputation for inspiring teams and developing ideas in competitive markets. Previously at LiveRamp, Acxiom, Microsoft and Conde Nast.
KERV
Jay Wolff
Chief Revenue Officer at KERV Interactive and Executive Vice President of 212 NYC
He serves as Chief Revenue Officer at KERV Interactive, leading global revenue and partnerships, in addition to being the Executive Vice President of 212 NYC, New York’s leading organization for the digital advertising industry.
Jay’s expertise in revenue and partner growth in the advertising industry spans 19 years. Most recently, Jay served as CRO of Varick Media, and Chief Growth Officer at Boostr, the first end-to-end SaaS revenue management system for media companies.
Kroger Precision Marketing
Elizabeth Cotogno
Group Director, Agency Partnerships
Elizabeth has 13+ years of experience in media sales and digital advertising. As Group Director of Agency Partnerships, Elizabeth is responsible for the growth and development of Kroger Precision Marketing’s agency partnerships. Her role is to establish Kroger Precision Marketing as a leading brand building and business driving platform in the eyes of all agency constituents.
Prior to joining the company, she spent 10+ years at NBCUniversal engaging brands as a sales and digital planner for NBC News & MSNBC. She attended Boston College for her undergraduate and master’s education.
LiveRamp
Julia Shapiro
Regional Vice President of Sales at LiveRamp
Julia manages the acquisition and growth of strategic Retail and CPG customers. Over her 8 year tenure, she has played a pivotal role in revenue growth, is a founding member of the customer advisory board, and has a track record of building top-performing teams. Prior to joining LiveRamp, Julia worked in the market research and technology industries partnering with Marketing, IT, and Cybersecurity executives to enhance their understanding of customers behavior and engagement.
Meta
Eric Johns
Agency Partner
Eric has been strategic partner to industry leading agencies in his 6 years on the North American Agency team at Meta. Prior to Facebook, he established and grew Holding Company partnerships as a key member of Rocket Fuel’s Agency Relations team. And prior to Rocket Fuel, Eric’s career was spent on the buy-side, where he developed innovative media programs and grew businesses across client-direct (J&J) and media agency (Carat & UM) roles.
Met Life
Jaime Punishill
CMO
Innovative marketing, channel, and product executive. Proven track record for finding blue ocean strategies and delivering scalable business operations. Expert in operationalizing design thinking, translating new concepts and trends into workable business plans and operations, and delivering pragmatic innovation within a large enterprise.
Roundel
Guthrie Collin
VP of Product
Guthrie leads a talented product team to design, deliver and evolve innovative, AI/ML-infused digital ad experiences connecting Target guests to trusted brands. Prior to Roundel, Guthrie developed his expertise in data science, ad technology, and digital product strategy by launching new digital media revenue streams for Amazon, Nielsen, The Associated Press, and Dow Jones, publisher of The Wall Street Journal. He’s co-created four patented inventions and earned his MBA from NYU.
Roundel
Nikhil Sharma
Sr. Director of Performance & Insights
Nikhil leads insights & analytics for Roundel, Target’s media business. He is responsible for the overall strategy and global operation to deliver world class digital campaigns for advertisers, in partnership with agencies and technology providers.
Nikhil has over 20 years of progressive, global leadership experience in the FMCG, Retail and Financial Services industries. Most recently, he led the consumer analytics business for Nielsen in North America, managing initiatives related to segmentation, personalization and loyalty. He was previously a management consultant with A.T. Kearney.
TikTok
Mike Westgate
Head of Home, Living, & Retail, TikTok Shop
Mike is the Head of Home, Living, & Retail for TikTok Shop, supporting Fortune 5000 clients and their e-commerce initiatives. Prior to TikTok, he was VP of Marketing at Briggo Coffee, the world's first robotic barista which was later acquired by Coca Cola. Earlier in his career, he was in product and audience marketing at Microsoft in the Windows and US SMB teams respectively. Before his foray into technology, he spent several years at Sara Lee and General Mills in a variety of retail sales and marketing roles.
The Trade Desk
Ben Sylvan
VP, Data Partnerships
Twitch
Victor Lu
Brand Partnership Studio Lead, Americas
Victor Lu is the Americas Lead for the award-winning Twitch Brand Partnership Studio in Twitch Advertising. Victor oversees creative strategy, creative production, program management, and talent relations disciplines to help brands create on Twitch through custom integrations, programming, interactive tech, sponsorships, and more.
Prior to joining the Twitch Brand Partnership Studio, Victor’s previous work includes time at Warner Music Group, Fandom, Turner Broadcasting, and MTV.
Twitch
Allison McDuffee
Director of Sales Insights for the Americas
Allison is focused on developing Twitch's best-in-class, data-fueled research capabilities to support the Twitch Ad Sales organization. Her team strives to identify actionable insights for clients about the highly engaged Twitch community and develops measurement solutions to attract and grow business.
Prior to joining Twitch, Allison served as the VP, Entertainment, Insights & Measurement at NBCUniversal where she focused on providing client insights, campaign effectiveness measurement and thought leadership positioning supporting Ad Sales, Client & Agency Partnerships, Marketing and Communications. Allison has also held various Ad Sales Research & Trade Marketing roles at Disney Media Sales & Marketing. During her tenure she spent time in NYC and in London where she supported teams across EMEA and helped launch Disneymedia+, Disney’s full media, marketing and promotions portfolio.
What We’ll Cover
Sessions will address solving challenges and preparing for the next wave of commerce growth. We’ll talk social & phygital shopping, retail media, orchestrated customer experiences, AI & tech advancement, and practical strategies to mature your omnichannel business.