Anna Bager is a seasoned cross-platform media veteran selected to lead the out of home advertising industry into the future. As of September 16, 2019, Ms. Bager will assume the title of President & CEO of the Out of Home Advertising Association of America (OAAA), the Washington, DC-based national trade association that represents the $8+ billion out of home advertising industry. Before joining OAAA, Bager was Executive Vice President at the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), the leading global trade association for digital media. During her 8-year tenure, Anna was responsible for leading all digital, mobile, video, audio, and data industry initiatives, representing more than 650 member companies including Google, Facebook, Amazon, Disney, and Microsoft. At IAB, Bager also supervised market research, media measurement, and thought leadership, and she partnered with IAB’s public policy team in Washington to advocate on critical issues like technical standards, brand safety, and consumer privacy. Under her leadership, IAB created three of the organizations’ most important centers of excellence: the IAB Mobile Center, representing the mobile marketing, advertising, and media marketplace; the IAB Digital Video Center, encompassing Advanced TV, OTT, and the Digital Content NewFronts; and the IAB Data Center, which developed consumer identifiers, data quality, industry benchmarks, and important tools for data activation and automation. Bager has worked in the media and technology sector her entire career. Prior to joining IAB, she led business intelligence at Ericsson Multimedia and headed research at Ericsson’s enterprise consulting unit. Prior to Ericsson, Bager was EMEA Research and Consulting Manager for the global research firm IDC. A native of Sweden, Ms. Bager is a graduate of Lund University in Lund, Sweden. Anna was named one of the 30 most powerful women in mobile advertising by Business Insider six years in a row; one of the top women in media by Folio magazine four times; and one of the top women in digital advertising by Cynopsis Media three times. She lives with her husband Erik and their two daughters in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. Bager speaks four languages. When not working, Anna enjoys skiing and sailing with her family.

Jeremy Chapius is the Director, EMEA Marketing Media Center of Excellence for Lenovo.

Phil is Global Digital Marketing Effectiveness Innovation Director for Haleon. He is based in London, within the Global Consumer Business Insights & Analytics team, where he is responsible for driving a Globally consistent approach to how Haleon marketers hold their investments in Digital Marketing accountable, both in terms of building brand equity and contributing to incremental, profitable sales growth. His recent focus has been in support of Haleon’s holistic marketing effectiveness programme; including the standardisation of the metrics and tools that are used to measure the effectiveness of Digital Marketing, CBIA governance of Global learning agendas and the piloting of emerging measurement innovations such as attention measurement and ‘cookie-less’ cross-media reach & frequency solutions.

Oggie is Vice President Integrated Brand Building at Philip Morris International (PMI). His career trajectory is a testament to his dedication and skills in brand building and marketing. With over twenty years of experience, he has honed his expertise by working with globally recognized brands and has played a pivotal role in steering PMI towards a future without smoke. His leadership in creating integrated marketing strategies highlights his innovative approach to enhancing the consumer experience. Oggie's diverse background, from his international upbringing to his athletic endeavors, reflects a life rich in experiences that inform his dynamic approach to business challenges. His commitment to teamwork and his perspective on obstacles as opportunities underscore his forward-thinking mindset, essential for navigating the complexities of consumer markets today. Prior to PMI, Oggie spent 18 years at Procter & Gamble working with some of the world’s most recognized brands. He is a graduate from the Wharton School and played basketball for the University of Pennsylvania. After graduating, he played professionally in Europe. Basketball is still a passion and a part of his life as a volunteer with the Lions de Genève (Lions of Geneva). Oggie currently lives in Switzerland with his family. He was born in New York City — to a Croatian mother and Bosnian father and grew up all over the world from Egypt to Serbia and from Canada back to the US.

Jules Kendrick is a dynamic senior leader, with a proven track record of driving growth, managing and developing teams, building successful relationships with clients and agencies and exceeding revenue targets.

Nick Law is Accenture Song’s Creative Chairperson and lead of our Creative Strategic Priority.

He is one of the world’s most innovative and versatile creative leaders, who believes all technology needs creativity to make it human, and all creativity needs technology to make it real.

Prior to Accenture, Nick was VP, Marcom Integration at Apple - where he was one of three leading the global design and marketing group, Chief Creative Officer Publicis Groupe, President Publicis – helping to drive a unified creative visions across the Groupe’s Brands, and Vice Chairman, Global Chief Creative Officer at R/GA – where, during his 17-year tenure, he led it to be one of the most awarded agencies in the world.

Nick’s career in design, advertising and digital media has spanned 30 years and four continents, working with the brightest and best across multiple creative disciplines. He has twice been named in the Creativity 50, a list of the world’s most influential creative people. A native of Sydney, Australia, he now lives in Brooklyn.

From owning internationally acclaimed production companies (Passport & Compass films) to holding C-suite positions across the US Luxury market, Kathrin channels over 20 years of leadership into the business and brands she builds. Previous roles included B-Reel, MPC/Technicolor, CVLT/Urban, MediaMonks/S4, and CEO at Studio Cadeaux/Stagwell.

Joshua Lowcock is the President, Media at Quad.

Sarah Mansfield leads Unilever’s Global Media Operations function and is Head of Global Media for Ice Cream. Responsibilities include Unilever’s global agency media and communications roaster, media contracts and trading, programmatic /performance and ad tech stack, global e-commerce and performance media including the Amazon Global Media JBP, Global Ice Cream Media planning and execution.

Prior to this Sarah held various roles at Barclays Bank PLC where she was responsible for launching new propositions such as contactless payments and mobile payments to the UK. 

Sarah is an experienced transformation leader with extensive media, communications and digital marketing experience across a number of industry sectors having also worked at various integrated agencies in planning roles.

She graduated in the UK with a BA (Hons) in Business Studies and Marketing. 

Sarah is an ISBA Vice Chair, MMA EMEA Board Member and I Com retail media council co-chair. 

She is passionate about the role media can play in bringing about positive societal change and champions the WFA industry solution to Cross Media Measurement, media carbon measurement through Ad Net Zero, and media inclusion and diversity. She is proud to be awarded Drum Digital Trading Leader  and was honoured as a  Female Icon of the advertising industry by Cosmopolitan.

In her spare time she enjoys running, as well as classical music and playing the violin

Maria-Angela Sanzone is the Executive Director, Head of Paid Social for JPMorgan Chase & Co.

A constant learner, I am passionate about building teams to scale business to exceed expectations. 

I recently completed my MBA at Imperial College London Business School, a rewarding experience allowing me to venture beyond my previous experience to study; corporate finance, private equity, accounting, organisational behaviour, strategy, leadership, management economics and innovation and entrepreneurship. 

With Imperial being part of the Grantham Institute for climate change, I also took the opportunity to learn from global experts on how business strategy is affected by climate considerations, and how cities are going to respond to their future needs.

Professionally I am responsible for the delivery of digital advertising compliance and developing BPA’s international business strategy.

My emphasis is on growing new and maintaining existing business, specifically focused on advertising technology, and developing the capabilities of my team. I have expanded the reach to new territories within EMEA and built teams to respond to the changing media landscape to meet clients’ needs.

I began my career at BPA Worldwide in London as a media analyst working with brands media verification team. I then served as account director across EMEA working as business lead for a varied portfolio of brands across industry in digital, live and printed media, before running the full UK operations.

I am proud of the trust clients put in me and my team, and the significant wins my team has helped achieve. I have a passion for continued learning and creating a collaborative and innovative culture.

I previously worked within Parliament for a number of MPs.

I'm a London native who's spent the last decade living and working in great cities — Istanbul, Dubai, New York, and now back in London.

Lisa Utzschneider is the Chief Executive Officer for IAS.