Strategic and collaborative marketer, media and tech strategist, built from 15+ years of working across a diverse portfolio of Entertainment and Gaming brands. Believer in integrated communications planning, working to push past boundaries of media types. Strong reputation for cultivating effective business partnerships across media, data & tech marketplaces.

Leading conversations at Google with a focus on driving digital marketing transformations that are durable at its core.

Seasoned global marketer and people leader with 14+ years of experience in digital media and integrated marketing on both brand and agency sides. I am passionate about using data to understand consumers and developing meaningful customer experiences that fuse digital media with the offline world. In addition to managing an eCommerce business, my track record includes successful campaigns for new product launches, brand building, and DR initiatives for Fortune 1000 companies in Consumer Tech, CPG, Finance, Travel, and Media/ Publishing. I get energized by leading integrated teams, building partnerships, and helping colleagues develop professionally. I am also an adventure traveler & podcast nerd.

Specialties: Integrated marketing strategy; eCommerce, digital media planning and buying, including display, search, branded content, mobile, programmatic, and social media; TV & OOH planning, marketing research and analysis; digital measurement; product management.

Experienced Data Strategist, GDPR Veteran, DMP & Ad Tech Consultant and Team Builder

Connecting customer experiences across touchpoints by combining technology, data, channels, and content is my passion.

An accomplished digital executive with 20+ years of experience in driving sales, business development and transformation of the online advertising industry. Expertise in digital marketing strategy, digital transformation, process automation, strategic partnership development and product commercialization.

Media specialist with significant experience across magazines, newspapers, digital and radio / audio.

I am an experienced digital marketer with over 15 years experience working in digital across multiple markets in the Asia Pacific region.

My expertise lies in the intimate knowledge of digital media and strategies for awareness, branding, lead acquisition and content led programs. I have worked with some of the world’s top brands in Asia Pacific across a broad cross section of verticals ranging from FMCG, Tech through to B2B.

I have a passion for creating unique products and solutions for clients that drive their marketing objectives. I don’t believe in a one-size-fits-all approach which has exposed me to many facets of digital marketing, including; display media, direct marketing (online/eDM/ telemarketing), content marketing, video, mobile, strategic planning, search, programmatic and social.

An Australian native, I’ve spent the past 10 years working and living in Asia. I’ve spent two years in China and currently reside in the regional hub of Singapore.

In 2011, I decided to pause my music studies at Rice University in order to focus my energy on starting Channel Factory, the world leader in brand suitability and ad performance on YouTube. Channel Factory has since been named a Cynopsis award-winning technology innovator, is present in over 15 countries worldwide, and has been named one of the fastest growing companies by Inc. Magazine.

To learn about the world, I am an avid angel investor into 26 amazing companies like FabFitFun, a lifestyle subscription service, and Outreach.io, a sales technology company named by Forbes in their Next Billion Dollar Startups list in 2018. Also super grateful to have been featured in the Forbes 30 Under 30.

In 2011, I decided to pause my music studies at Rice University in order to focus my energy on starting Channel Factory, the world leader in brand suitability and ad performance on YouTube. Channel Factory has since been named a Cynopsis award-winning technology innovator, is present in over 15 countries worldwide, and has been named one of the fastest growing companies by Inc. Magazine.

To learn about the world, I am an avid angel investor into 26 amazing companies like FabFitFun, a lifestyle subscription service, and Outreach.io, a sales technology company named by Forbes in their Next Billion Dollar Startups list in 2018. Also super grateful to have been featured in the Forbes 30 Under 30.

Accomplished, multidisciplinary executive with an impeccable track record, strong business acumen, an entrepreneurial mindset, and a solid reputation built on 25+ years of technology, legal, advertising, licensing, and regulatory policy experience.

Repeated success as a visionary and thought leader for start-up’s and large corporations - advancing the strategic direction of businesses through dynamic innovation, team building, organizational acumen and profitable growth.

Michelle is an expert in the advertising and marketing technology industry. She spent the past decade in the U.S. working with household names such as Procter & Gamble, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, Lenovo and T-Mobile.

Michelle is recognized by stakeholders she has worked with, partners and team members for her strong leadership in strategy and execution, expertise in marketing automation, and rich experience in programmatic and data analytics.

Michelle actively gives back to the advertising community by serving as a career mentor and member of juries for industry awards. Recently she served as member of jury for Digital Media Awards and Festival of Media Global Awards in 2019. She was also the chairperson and speaker at AI and Big Data summit in Beijing in 2018.

Mainardo de Nardis is the Former CEO of OMD.

Gonzalo Del Fa is the President of Multicultural at GroupM.

For 15+ years, I've partnered with companies of all sizes across more than 20 sectors to tackle their biggest brand challenges.

Whether it's creating, updating, or pivoting brands into new areas of opportunity, my strategies have delivered business results across nearly every function of marketing. I have deep expertise in helping businesses connect with their customers and creating culturally relevant brands.

An experienced marketer and expert in building and marketing brands in the digital ecosystem, Lauren Douglass currently serves as the SVP of Global Marketing for Channel Factory, a video technology platform for advertisers. Lauren oversees a team focused on creating and amplifying Channel Factory brand via press, thought leadership, research, and experiential through a 360 go-to-market approach. Lauren draws from her 14 years of experience in business & tech, delivering against key KPIs and driving ROI from marketing. Lauren has excelled at storytelling, leveraging data and research to craft and deliver the right narrative. Previously, Lauren worked with several leading digital companies including Criteo & AOL. With a background in digital acquisition at Citibank, she is fluent in the skills essential for any brand asserting itself in the digital landscape.

Lauren is a thought leader in the media realm and frequent speaker on topics including marketing performance, brand safety, diversity & inclusion, and digital media.

I am a passionate and enthusiastic leader, who believes that success is the result of working collaboratively, communicating a purpose and inspiring confidence in others to work towards a shared vision. Over a 16 year career, I’ve helped build some of the largest brands in the world through a mix of advertising, thought leadership, account management, product management, data and analytic skills.

Industry Experience: Publishing, Telecommunication, Airline, Financial Services, Automotive, Aviation, Fashion and Apparel, Economic Development, Energy, News, Entertainment, Media

Brand Experience: AT&T, WarnerMedia, CNN, American Express, Delta Airlines, Cessna, Stetson, Chevron, BP, Time Warner Cable

Melissa Frank is the Paid Social Lead at GroupM.

A marketer by training and a digital advertiser in execution. I partner with brands and agencies to harness their media to the best of its capabilities. Specializing in the Ad tech ecosystem with expertise across multiple digital platforms. My experience gained across brand, agency, and vendor partner roles has equipped me with the knowledge of understanding, solving, and implementing a marketing challenge from different perspectives.

I am leading the Creative and Media team in Singapore. Creative and Media domain at Kantar provide our clients the data and insights to maximise their advertising effectiveness.

Experienced Head of Digital Media & Virtual Engagement with a demonstrated history working within luxury beauty, fashion and entertainment industries. Skilled in Digital Strategy, Media Advertising, Content Production, Virtual Services and Social Media. Strong marketing professional and industry public speaker.

Experienced professional in the digital media and marketing industry. Persuasive, accomplished leader with a strong background in strategy, brand and operations management, marketing and sales, with far-reaching operational skills and experience in various areas of the digital and analog media industry. Capable of implementing and driving growth, product development and localization strategies as well as leading innovation and complex digital transformation and change management processes. Proven ability to win new and grow existing customers as well as to develop product, brands and markets. A results-driven team player with outstanding communication skills, a high degree of cultural sensitivity and the ability to manage a wide range of interfaces. Well known personality within the media and marketing industry having an extensive network there, in the startup and financial community.

I oversee and manage the Yahoo video team, video operations, strategy and partnerships in Southeast Asia. I also head Yahoo’s esports, gaming and tech efforts in Southeast Asia, including content, partnerships and collaborations.

I have spent over 15 years in the media industry since 2004, having formerly covered entertainment, lifestyle, politics and general news at Yahoo, as well as breaking news at The Straits Times Online.

Rose has over twenty years of experience in local and international marketing. At Wavemaker, she is responsible for managing and growing global relationships with key clients across Asia Pacific, including L’Oréal, Colgate, Tiffany & Co, Chevron, Daimler, Jetstar, and Netflix.  She is passionate about the importance of having an inclusive culture, diverse skillsets, and equal opportunities, and has been a driving force for promoting female talent throughout her career. Currently, she leads the Diversity & Inclusion for Wavemaker Asia Pacific and Campaign Asia – Women Leading Change.  Rose is also a former Regional Board Chairperson of Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) for South East Asia & India - sharing her expertise and experiences in panels and discussions, and contributing to the growth of the digital and technology industry.

Darline is a proven senior level executive who has held various C-Level roles in publishing, digital media, and advertising technology sectors. With strong leadership and strategic expertise, Darline has led organizations and delivered solid performance in both private and public companies.

Darline is currently Global COO at Matterkind, (part of Kinesso, IPG's Ad Tech division), where she leads global client relationships and operations. Along with her executive team colleagues, she drives client strategy, organizational development and key operational initiatives. She embodies Matterkind’s “people first” motto in everything she does.

She is the former COO of PulsePoint, the most profitable advertising technology company during her tenure. Darline delivered a 200% increase in revenues in 3 years while leading all programmatic strategies including the successful launch of their ‘header bidding’ technology.

Darline spent nine years at About.com in various senior level roles. She was President and CEO of The About Group where she was responsible for the strategic direction of the business unit of The New York Times Company that included About.com, CalorieCount.com and ConsumerSearch.com. During her tenure as CEO, she significantly increased the company’s revenue and led the sale of About.com from The New York Times Company to IAC in 2013. Darline has also held the title of COO of About.com and CFO of the About Group.

Prior to About.com, Darline held various financial leadership positions with Thomson Media, a division of Thomson Financial. She began her career with Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising in New York.

Darline received an M.B.A. with a dual concentration in accounting and finance from Long Island University and a B.S. degree in business and psychology from The State University of New York at Stony Brook.

She spent five years as a Board Member of StepUp Women’s Network, a non-for-profit organization, igniting young girls to fulfill their potential by creating and implementing impactful after-school and weekend programs that empower teen girls from under-resourced communities to be confident, college-bound, and career-ready.

Chandon Jones is the SVP, US Ad Operations at Kinesso.

Seb Joseph is the Senior News Editor for Digiday.

Reshma Karnik is the Vice President, Data and Technology Solutions for MediaLink.

Jeremy Kim is a Co-Founder of Nectar Hard Seltzer.

Brian King is the President of Marriott International Caribbean & Latin America.

I am an ad tech enthusiast with wide range of digital knowledge. Super passionate with all new innovation in the digital space!

With over ten years of experience in digital adverting, I have worked at and dealt with multiple APAC markets across a wide range of online products, including: desktop, mobile, video and social. My strengths and expertise are in Programmatic: evaluating and on-boarding new tech vendors, launching and integrating multiple DSPs, connecting multiple ad and Martech, setting up programmatic supply team and innovating and developing new products across data and tech.

Highly respected for her unique mash-up of business savvy leadership skills and an insatiable passion for ad tech, Amanda Martin is VP, Enterprise Partnerships at Goodway Group, which she has helped become one of the leading independent digital partners to advertisers. In this role, Amanda works with programmatic leaders worldwide to translate complex digital products into solutions that help advertisers bridge the gap between successful digital media and real business results. With an ever-watchful eye on emerging trends in the digital landscape, Amanda is known for empowering others with the insights and tactical tools that catapult companies and careers to the next level.

Digital strategy Lead managing transformation in companies to drive content performance, experienced leader of teams seamlessly linking online offline experiences. Advisor to start ups currently working for a unicorn business leading digital commerce, influencer marketing and paid social. Expert across paid owned earned channels

Areas of expertise: Digital marketing for regulated brands. Data driven performance marketing

A confident and motivated marketer with a dynamic approach to presenting, can engage and motivate across the business with an emotive and empowering communication style.

20+ years global marketing experience across: Financial Services, Travel, Telco, Entertainment, Pharma and Tech/B2B. Proven track record of building + leading high performing teams and delivering superior business results for clients.

Highly experienced, grounded yet ground-breaking .... Marketer, Strategist and Commercial Leader.
Strong suit is strategy, innovation, insight-driven marketing, digital and collaboration.
Handles the matrix organization effectively.

Companies: IHH Healthcare, J&J, Procter & Gamble, Gillette, Boston Consulting Group; as well as technology consulting start-up Netdecisions and Apple reseller Diversitec.
Spent 4 years on the ground in China, 1 year in Indonesia, 1 year in the UK .... Proven results in driving growth for emerging markets globally.

Specialties: Healthcare, Emerging Markets, Marketing Innovation, Business Strategy, Consumer Insights, New Product Development and Digital.

People come to Palette Group for imaginative and empathic work. Based in Brooklyn, the team's creative work is rooted in ensuring a sense of unfiltered authenticity. In a world where everything is filtered or photoshop, we try to push our clients to be imaginative and honest with the community and cultures the content will touch and reflect. You can feel this positioning with their work on Visit Philadelphia, City Fitness, Cora Women, Fitler Club, and many more projects.

As a creative entrepreneur for almost 15 years, I started off my career as a graphic designer and scaled up my capacities as a creative, marketer, and strategist with the growth of my agency. He's hasn't taken his professional trajectory for granted and has been touring middle and high schools on the East Coast for over 2 years. He's shared is the creative, entrepreneurial journey with over 3,000 under-served youth since his first talk 5 years ago.

My digital marketing career started with a multi-million dollar campaign for Hyundai. The team and I established sales funnels online and were the first integrated campaign to sell a car via Twitter. I took all the strategic and creative experience on that campaign to a Digital Agency just starting up.

I met the Co-founders of Teal Orbit and we started building immediately, I took the recently incorporated company to multi-six figures in sales within months. Our focus at the time was digital marketing and website design. By the second year, I was a partner and recruited a local team in Philadelphia, continuing to close business and manage the marketing team.

In year three, I bought Teal Orbit and spun the agency into Palette Group; we moved into a studio in North Philadelphia and began focusing creative content for social media, digital marketing, influencer marketing, and digital advertising.

Passionate marketing executive with a track record of delivering results, building high performing teams, and driving positive change in complex organizations. An empathetic leader with an entrepreneurial mindset that solves complex problems with simple solutions. Tremendous curiosity who creates experiences that connect with consumers. Experience leading digital transformation, organizational design, brand strategy, media activation, creative development, and measurement. Persuasive consensus builder whose leadership approach blends democratic and coaching styles that motivates others, develops talent, and reshapes organizations.

Prerna Pant is the Co-founder of Radarr.

Extremely creative, fearlessly innovative communications industry leader with significant experience and achievement in content, mobile, social media and digital marketing. Pioneer in the Advanced TV space.

Strategic Specialties: Data Driven Marketing, Mobile Marketing, Media & Communications, Content Marketing, Social Media, Consumer Promotion, Sponsorship, Event Marketing and Brand Marketing.

Track record for success in: brand marketing, product integration, brand & product launch, mobile marketing, integrated consumer promotions, sponsorship marketing and public relations. Recognized consistently for innovative and creative solutions, risk taking and driving results.

Accomplished in Business Development & Top to Top Negotiations.

Highly sought after public speaker on topics including mobile marketing, content marketing and advanced/interactive television.

IAB MIXX Award Judge, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016

Sarah Personette is the Chief Customer Officer for Twitter.

Amrita Randhawa is CEO of Publicis Groupe Southeast Asia leading all the Groupe's capabilities across data, technology, creative and media for the high growth Southeast Asia markets. Amrita took on the role in June, 2021 and is working to elevate the Groupe offering in every market as well as create Centres of Excellence that feed all of Southeast Asia.  Amrita loves a challenge – something that people say can’t be done. Marshaling cross-functional and cross-cultural teams and inspiring them to do the best work of their careers is her purpose at work. She has been recognized with the CEO of the Year and Business Leader of the Year at the Campaign Women Leading Change APAC Awards, Agency Leader of the Year at the Campaign Greater China Agency of the Year awards, one of ten women to watch by Ad Age China and has been on Campaign’s 40 under 40 list.   Prior to her current role she was CEO of Mindshare Asia Pacific and Executive Chair of Mindshare Greater China where she turned around the Mindshare China operations making it a formidable #1 in the market and maintained Mindshare’s position as the #1 media network in Asia. In her time at Mindshare, Amrita also founded L’Atelier, a bespoke GroupM and WPP solution for LVMH in Asia and was its Executive Sponsor for 3 years. She is intimately familiar with key Asian markets.

Smita Reddy is a results-driven communications and marketing leader focused on driving growth, leading innovation and creating cultural relevance and brand love for global lifestyle brands.

As Managing Director, Head of Brand & Integrated and a Global Client Leader at Edelman, Smita serves as a senior strategist, providing her clients and team with strategic counsel, thought leadership and program management, in addition to driving all activity across programs. She leads a team of 250+ employees around the world.

Passion areas include mentoring and supporting the professional development of staff while helping to drive new business growth for the firm overall.

Her creative and strategic chops have been applied to building brands in the personal care, food and beverage, technology, fashion and media industries. Current and past clients include Unilever (Dove, Dove Men+Care, TRESemme, Suave, Love Beauty & Planet, Vaseline, Ben & Jerry’s), American Express, PepsiCo, HP, and Church & Dwight. She has spearheaded communications, consumer engagement and influencer led marketing initiatives with Twitter, ESPN, New York Fashion Week, Comedy Central, and Sony Pictures Entertainment. Purpose marketing with long lasting social impact is a distinct area of expertise and passion for her.

She was named PR Week's "40 Under 40" in 2018 and served on the jury for the Glass Lions for Change at the Cannes Lions Festival in 2019. She sits on the Edelman Global Management Team and is on
the leadership board for the Global Women’s Equality Network (GWEN).

Smita lives in New York with her husband and two daughters.

17+ years of experience across Management Consulting, Digital Marketing Strategy & Roadmap, Implementation and Business Development, leading teams of business consultants to deliver high value engagements for clients.

Currently leading the Strategy & Insights function at Epsilon for APAC, ME & India. Focused on helping Fortune 500 clients innovate their digital transformation strategy; leverage data and technology to drive customer value.

Built high performing diverse global teams. Possess an inclusive, passionate and situational leadership style.

Functional Expertise: Data Driven Marketing, Loyalty Strategy, Customer Experience Strategy, Marketing Automation, Customer Relationship Management.

Experienced business and team leader who has successfully lead the growth and development of start-up and established businesses and specialty capabilities across a variety of disciplines. Author, blogger, keynote speaker and panelist writing and talking about technology, data and creativity and how these are impacting on marketing, media and advertising.Investor, artist, photographer and traveller in my spare time.

My goal is to use my expertise to help companies successfully enhance their organization through redefining the value of their human capital; how it is defined, measured and managed, and ultimately help executive level management understand the direct correlation between human capital and their 'positive' bottom line.

I have spearheaded organizational development, leadership, and employee empowerment initiatives. I have an established track record for identifying complex problems; resourceful and inventive in developing and implementing creative solutions with enhanced sensitivity to cost, efficiency and deadlines.

I am an eloquent and effective communicator who easily develops a rapport with persons from rich and diverse backgrounds. My professional philosophy is to be a fair, knowledgeable, consistent and trustworthy leader who strives to build leadership capacity in others, while meeting and exceeding client expectations.

Specialties: Leadership and Team development, Organizational Effectiveness, Diagnosis and Needs Assessment, Diversity Training, Personal Development Coaching.