Todd Anderman

Todd Anderman was named Chief Media and Revenue Officer at Jumptap in January 2011. At Jumptap he oversees the mobile ad network’s revenue, publisher partnerships, and operations. Over the course of Anderman’s career, he has successfully built and expanded a number of brands in the digital space in both online and mobile. Prior to joining Jumptap, Anderman was Senior Vice President, Digital Media at Hachette Filipacchi Media, President of Maxim Digital, Senior Vice President of American Greetings Interactive and Senior Vice President at eMusic. He began his career at Ziff Davis Publishing where he held a number of positions over the course of almost ten years. Anderman is a graduate of Brandeis University.

Janet Balis

Janet Balis is the Publisher of The Huffington Post. In her role, she leads go-to-market strategy for the Pulitzer prize-winning, cross-platform brand across sales and marketing efforts. She is highly focused on HuffPost’s most innovative new offerings like HuffPost Live, mobile products, global expansion, and other major partnerships. Immediately prior, Balis served as SVP/Head of Sales Strategy, Marketing and Partnerships for AOL, leading client solutions, branded entertainment, and trade strategy like the 2012 Digital Content Newfronts.

Balis previously served as EVP, Media Sales and Marketing for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, leading revenue across the magazines, television shows, and digital. Prior, Balis served major media entities such as Warner Bros. Television, Turner Broadcasting, and Discovery Communications, through her company, Digital Media Strategies.

Balis also worked for Time Warner for over eight years at both Time Inc. and AOL. She was named a 2010 Ad Age Woman to Watch and 2006 Crain’s Top 40 Under 40. She has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Columbia College.

Michael Bayle

Michael Bayle is Senior Vice President and General Manager of ESPN Mobile. A former Yahoo! and Microsoft executive, Bayle develops and manages all aspects of ESPN’s mobile strategy and execution, including content production, programming and publishing on every ESPN Mobile platform. He reports to John Kosner, Senior Vice President and General Manager of ESPN Digital and Print Media.

Most recently, Bayle was Vice President of Monetization and Marketing at Amobee, a leading mobile marketing developer, where he led global ad operations, North American business and market development and strategic partnerships. Prior to Amobee, Bayle was Senior Director of Global Mobile Monetization at Yahoo!, where he launched Yahoo’s mobile advertising business, while building a global team that created mobile campaigns for Fortune 500 partners in 29 markets. Bayle also held business development positions at Yahoo!, Microsoft and International Data Group (IDG).

Bayle is a graduate of Stanford University, with B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science, as well as a bachelor of arts in Japanese. He is also co-founder of Drink Exchange, a monthly global internet networking event.

Ari Bluman

Ari Bluman is, as of August 2012, the Chief Digital Investment Officer for GroupM North America, the holding company for media agencies Maxus, MEC, MediaCom and Mindshare, and a WPP company. Ari directs GroupM’s strategy of securing outstanding digital media value for clients, and oversees the company’s evolving relationships with key media company partners across all inventory categories.

Previously Ari Bluman was President, North America, for Real Media, a business unit of 24/7 Media, WPP’s marketing technology company. He was responsible for all of North American business development, ad operations, sales, and client services. Prior to his employment at Real Media Group, Bluman was Vice President of Sales at Now Marketing, Inc.

A graduate of the University of Maryland, from which he holds a BA in Political Science, Bluman joined Real Media Group (then 24/7 Real Media) in 1997.

Michael Brownstein

Michael Brownstein has been the Meredith Publishing Group Executive Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer since 2010. Previously, he was the SVP/publishing director of Meredith Corporate Solutions, the company’s enhanced group sales function designed to utilize the full range of Meredith’s assets to provide clients with comprehensive advertising and marketing programs. He also served as the vice president/publishing director of Midwest Living, Parents, American Baby and Traditional Home magazines, as well as the Special Interests Media group.

Brownstein was the publisher of Ladies’ Home Journal magazine from 1995 to 2000, when he was promoted to vice president/publisher of Ladies’ Home Journal and Meredith Group Sales in 2000. From 1998 – 2000, Brownstein simultaneously served as the founding publisher of Meredith’s More magazine, the only lifestyle publication targeted to women over 40.

Brownstein joined Meredith Corporation in October 1992, as advertising director of Ladies’ Home Journal. Before arriving at Meredith, he was associate advertising director of Woman’s Day magazine.

Paul Caine

As EVP, Group President and Chief Revenue Officer, Paul Caine is responsible for global advertising revenue for Time Inc. In 2012, Caine introduced a global ad strategy for the company, including a series of new digital ad platforms that use Time Inc.'s scale, proprietary data and technology partnerships to provide advertisers with greater access to and engagement with consumers. Caine’s Group President duties also include oversight of Time Inc. Branded Solutions, Research and Insights, Time Inc. Content Solutions, MNI and Targeted Media. Caine previously served as President and Group Publisher of the Style & Entertainment Group, where he oversaw its six category-leading titles: PEOPLE, InStyle, Entertainment Weekly, ESSENCE, People en Español and People StyleWatch.

A graduate of Indiana University with a BA in Communications, Caine lives in New Jersey with his wife and three children.

Mark Ford

As Time Inc. EVP and Sports Group President, Mark Ford is responsible for the business strategy, operations and international development for Sports Illustrated, the Sports Illustrated Golf Group and SI Kids franchises which collectively reach 35 million sports fans and generate $400 million in revenue. In addition, he works across all Time Warner sports operations (Warner Bros., Turner Sports and HBO) to align and leverage the company’s sports assets, cultivate cross platform opportunities and create new revenue streams.

Previously, Ford led advertising sales for the Time Inc. News & Sports Group, comprised of Sports Illustrated, Time, Fortune, Money, Golf and Life.com. Before that post, Ford served the dual role of President for both the Sports Illustrated and Golf brands. His four-year tenure was marked by consistent, year-over-year bottom-line growth, a vastly expanded global footprint, groundbreaking digital development and the launch of an event marketing division. Ford’s career began in the media department at J. Walter Thompson Chicago. He joined Time Inc. in 1985 and took on several important assignments such as leading the launch of Entertainment Weekly and serving as President of MNI Networks, a Stanford, CT-based targeted media company. From there he became President of Time4Media and its network of 17 enthusiast publications and in 2005 was appointed both President and Publisher of Sports Illustrated.

About

Carl Fremont

Carl Fremont has 30+ years’ experience working in advertising and marketing on a myriad of consumer and business to business brands. Today, Carl Fremont leads Digitas’ Global Media practice, comprised of over 500 professionals in seven domestic and international offices working on behalf of such clients as American Express, Whirlpool, Mars, Delta, Sprint, Taco Bell and eBay, among many others. Digitas is one of the leaders in digital-centric performance and brand media encompassing search marketing, online advertising, email, social marketing, mobile, gaming, digital video and other emerging media forms.

Digitas has been recognized as a media industry leader, with numerous Cannes Lions, recognition by PROMO, the International Festival of Media, and awards from OMMA (Media Agency of the Year for four consecutive years), Google (Best Innovation) and Adweek (Plan of the Year). Carl was also the recipient of Media Post’s All Star Award, as well as a Cable Fax and OnMedia Player awards.

Quentin George

As Chief Innovation Officer, Quentin George, is responsible for the overall growth, development and implementation of Mediabrands’ intelligence capabilities. Mr. George was, formerly, Global Lead, Digital Media and Strategic Innovation for Universal McCann. Prior to that, he served as Chief of Corporate Development and Managing Director for Organic, Inc., where he led assignments for such clients as Sprint, 20th Century Fox, Mitsubishi Motors and GeekSquad.

Mr. George lives and makes wine in San Francisco with his wife and children.

Rajeev Goel

Rajeev Goel co-founded PubMatic in 2006 to give premium publishers a real-time selling platform for managing their revenue and brand strategy. As Co-Founder and CEO, Rajeev is responsible for PubMatic's business strategy. Under his leadership, the company's revenue has grown 33 times in the past two years, attracting a rapidly expanding roster of premium, branded publishers.

Before PubMatic, Rajeev co-founded Chipshot.com, a leading online retailer of custom-built golf equipment, where he served as Vice President of Technology. At Chipshot, Rajeev led product management and development, helping grow the company into a $30 million business. An experienced management consultant, he was a Principal at Diamond Management and Technology Consultants, an IT strategy consulting firm for Fortune 2000 clients, where he led teams on IT strategy engagements. Before founding PubMatic, Rajeev was a Product Marketing executive at SAP, where he was responsible for global go-to-market strategy for new products.

Rajeev holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor's Degree in Economics, Political Science and Spanish from The Johns Hopkins University. He lives in Silicon Valley, California with his wife and children.

Jonah Goodhart

Jonah Goodhart has been building technology companies for the past 15 years. Jonah co-founded Moat, WGI Group, Billions.org, Colonize.com, and was the founding investor and Board member of Right Media, which was acquired by Yahoo!. Jonah is based in New York City and attended Cornell University where he received a BA degree in political science. Jonah is a member of Mayor Bloomberg's Council on Technology and Innovation as well as the Broadcasting Board of Governors Commission on Innovation.

Larry Harris

Larry Harris joined PubMatic in March 2012 as the company’s first Chief Marketing Officer, bringing his deep and diversified marketing experience to the ad technology company.

An experienced mobile marketing and advertising executive for more than 20 years, Harris has led integrated marketing and branding programs for Microsoft, Bank of America, Verizon Wireless, AT&T and Intel. Harris is the former Chief Executive Officer of Ansible Mobile, an early mobile agency. Before co-founding Ansible, Larry served as Executive Vice President and Director of Integrated Marketing for Draft, (now Draftfcb), where he built and led the global technology team and oversaw the company’s relationship with Interpublic. In 2000, Harris co-founded the digital division of FCBi – the direct, digital and data arm of Foote, Cone and Belding. Harris directed digital strategy, creative, user interface, e-marketing and web development for clients such as Hewlett-Packard, GSK, Quest, the IRS, Eli Lilly, Chase, Clairol and MetLife.

Larry is based in the New York City office. A native New Yorker, he graduated from Harvard College and sits on the boards of New Yorkers for Children, the Institute for the Recruitment of Teachers at Phillips Academy, and the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire.

Susan Hogan

With roots in strategic marketing and research, Susan is laser-focused on understanding and leveraging the value media fans bring to advertisers. Responsible for ad sales research across all Viacom digital brands, Sue collaborates often with her linear partners to measure campaign and platform effectiveness --marrying consumer insights with both media and off-line behaviors in myriad ways.

Sue has been teaching advertising-centric classes at CCNY for the past decade. Prior to Viacom, she led the cross-platform research team at Martha Stewart Omnimedia.

Kyoon Kim

Kyoo Kim leads the national advertising sales team as the VP, Chief Sales & Marketing Officer. He previously served as the Director of Ad Sales and has successfully been delivering innovative advertising solutions at NBC News Digital for more than six years. Before coming to NBC News Digital, Kim was Site Manager and Director of Sales for the Seattle office of Belo Interactive, a media company based in Dallas. Prior to that, he worked in broadcast sales for the local Seattle NBC TV affiliate.

Michael Kuntz

As Rodale’s Executive Director of Digital Sales, Michael leads corporate advertising sales and marketing efforts across the company’s portfolio of leading health and wellness brands. In this role, he’s responsible for bringing together Rodale’s various digital assets to create innovative marketing solutions for advertisers. Additionally, Michael oversees business development and strategic partnerships, as well as the development of new digital ad products for web mobile, and emerging media platforms. Prior to joining Rodale in 2010, Michael held key leadership and strategy positions with Kontera and SmartMoney.com.

Joe Lagani

Joe Lagani is Chief Revenue Officer for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, the diversified media andmerchandising company whose mission is engaging approximately 66 million consumers a month across a range of media platforms with unique lifestyle content. MSLO also has a growing retail presence with 8,500 products in thousands of retail locations.

Lagani has had key leadership roles in both digital and print advertising sales for some of the world's best-known media properties. At MSLO, he leads all advertising sales activity, as well as cross-platform integrations and strategic brand partnerships across its media business units, which include its flagship magazine title Martha StewartLiving, as well as Martha Stewart Weddings, Whole Living and Everyday Food magazines, its website, social media platforms, iPad and iPhone Apps and TV and radio properties. The Company’s television and video programming includes the new “Martha Stewart’s Cooking School” series on PBS and a vast library of how-to video available online.

Lagani's career spans three decades and includes leading revenue-generating functions at global blue chip lifestyle media companies. Most recently, he was Senior Vice President, Ad Sales at NBCUniversal/ iVillage, the world's largest content-driven community for women, where he spearheaded ad sales. Prior to that, Lagani was Vice President Brand Sales and VP/General Manager at Glam Media, Inc., named one of Adweek's hottest start-ups. From 2004-2007, he was Vice President and Publisher for Conde Nast 's House and Garden. Before that, for 16 years, he held avariety of roles at Meredith Corporation, including seven years as Vice President, Publishing Director, as well as Publisher for Country Home and Advertising Director for Ladies Home Journal.

Reggie Lau

Reggie Lau is a Forrester Total Economic Impact Consultant. He has been Project Director for multiple TEI case studies for a range of different technologies spanning from physical storage and infrastructure to modern software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions. Prior to his role with Forrester, Mr. Lau was both a Strategy Consultant and Financial Analyst for Deloitte, where he recognized the critical need for organizations to quantify, justify and articulate the business value of technology.

Meredith Levien

Meredith leads the business organization for Forbes.com, which reaches an audience of 17 million monthly unique visitors according to Comscore and Forbes Magazine, the largest (by total audience and advertising revenue) business magazine in the US.

Prior to running overall revenue for the company, Levien served as Publisher of Forbes Magazine in 2010 and 2011. In that role, Levien oversaw a sweeping redesign of Forbes Magazine. Levien joined Forbes Media in 2008 as Group Publisher of ForbesLife Magazine and ForbesWoman.

Before Forbes, Levien spent eight years at Atlantic Media Company, where she served in a variety of capacities including launch Publisher of 02138 Magazine, Associate Publisher of The Atlantic and National Advertising Director for The Atlantic. Earlier in her career, Levien was an Account Director and head of business development for i33 / AppNet, a digital advertising agency and website development firm. Levien began her career and served in various roles at The Advisory Board Company, a now-public, for-profit think tank founded by the owner of Atlantic Media Company.

Levien graduated from the University of Virginia and she currently serves as the co-chair of the Forbes Executive Women’s Board, a board member of Developmental Connections and a member of TARA, a sister organization to the Belizean Grove focused on nurturing leadership through peer exchange. She lives in New York City with her husband and son.

Jonathan
McCauley-Oliver

A veteran of the industry, Olly began his online sales career with Excite.com back in 1999. Experiencing at first hand the boom and bust nature of digital’s early days he moved into recruitment, handling roles for clients such as Microsoft, Amazon, FT.com, and many WPP-owned agencies.

A role at one of the UK’s leading national newspaper titles www.mirror.co.uk brought him back into the sales fold with an emphasis on creative solutions, video advertising and sponsorship. In June 2010, Olly took over as head of sales for www.nationalrail.co.uk, which is a is dedicated solely to providing information on rail travel in real time and serves over 6 million unique users and around 70 million page impressions per month.

Since then ad revenues have doubled and, in addition to increasing the volume of display advertising, Olly has brokered relationships with partners from behavioral targeting, data and ecommerce, as well as the highly successful relationship with PubMatic. He is also responsible for selling across both the mobile site and the newly-launched App.

Kirk McDonald

Kirk McDonald joined PubMatic in October 2011, bringing more than two decades of experience across a range of premier media brands including Time Inc., CNET, Ziff Davis and Conde Nast. As President of the company, Kirk is driving the next stage of PubMatic's growth.

Before joining PubMatic, Kirk was President of Digital at Time Inc, where he brought together the company's digital assets to deliver audience and brand solutions to clients. Prior to Time Digital, he was CEO of the Fortune|Money Group, where he oversaw worldwide advertising sales and integrated marketing. Prior to his leadership position at Fortune|Money, Kirk was Senior Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Client Services for DRIVEpm and Atlas, which were both key units of Microsoft's advertising business. In addition, Kirk spent nine years at CNET, where he was the Senior Vice President of network sales, and developed hugely successful strategic partnerships with the top tier of technology marketers.

Kirk serves on several professional and not-for-profit boards. He's an advisor on the LUMA Partners board and the Chairman of a small not-for-profit, Camp Interactive, which empowers inner city youth through the inspiration of the outdoors and the creative power of technology.

Wenda Harris Millard

Wenda Harris Millard is the President and COO of MediaLink LLC, a leading strategic advisory and business development firm that provides critical counsel and direction to companies and investors that interact with the media, advertising and entertainment industries.

This is the latest in a storied career in which Ms. Millard was Co-CEO and President, Media for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc.; Chief Sales Officer at Yahoo!; Chief Internet Officer at Ziff Davis Media and President of Ziff Davis Internet; DoubleClick Executive Vice President responsible for establishing the brand and overseeing operations of DoubleClick Media; President and Group Publisher of SRDS; Senior Vice President and Publisher of Family Circle; and Executive Vice President/Group Publisher of Adweek, Mediaweek and Brandweek magazines.

Ms. Millard holds a BA from Trinity College and an MBA from Harvard University.

Peter Minnium

Peter joined the IAB in mid 2010 to lead "Reimagining Interactive Advertising," a series of initiatives designed to address the under-representation of creative brand advertising online. He was formerly Managing Director of Lowe Worldwide, the global creative agency network of the Interpublic Group, where he held leadership roles overseeing international operations. Peter’s passion is the intersection of creative ideas and technology and he is focused on fueling the full-fledged creative revolution that interactivity has long promised.

Jim Norton

Jim joined AOL in 2009 and is responsible for sales on all of AOL's owned and operated properties, including The Huffington Post, Engadget, StyleList and MapQuest. He now takes on the responsibility of leading sales of all cross-platform marketing solutions, including display/Project Devil initiative, video and mobile.

Jim previously was SVP of AOL Advertising's Advance Sales team, which focuses on national and regional advertisers across all categories, as well as new business. He was VP of Product Sales working with AOL product teams on maximizing their offerings to advertisers, including MapQuest, Patch, AOL Mail, AOL Video and Mobile. He also managed AOL's Search and Sponsored Listings business, and helped launch and manage AOL's self-service advertising platform, Ad Portal.

Previous to AOL, Jim spent three years at Google, most recently as National Sales Manager for Google's Agency Activation team. Jim began his Google career as Senior Account Executive on the National Tech B-to-B Team, servicing many of the leading global tech marketers.

Prior to his digital career, Jim worked in a variety of traditional media sales and marketing roles, including four years as Sales Manager at Tribune Broadcasting's WLVI-TV (Boston's WB), radio ad sales at Kiss 108FM and a variety of brand marketing roles at Miller Brewing Company.

A lifelong Bostonian, Jim is a 'Triple Eagle,' having graduated from BC High, Boston College (BA, Communications) and BC's Carroll Graduate School of Business, (MBA, Marketing and Technology).

Joanna O’Connell

As the Principal Analyst serving Interactive Marketing Professionals, Joanna covers display marketing, ad targeting, optimization and measurement. She focuses specifically on marketer and vendor best practices in using display and measurement techniques and tactics, as well as how to optimize results over time.

Prior to joining Forrester in July 2010, Joanna worked at Avenue A in New York, and was a founding member of Razorfish’s ATOM Systems agency trading desk. Most recently she ran brand relations for the Audience on Demand practice at VivaKi, helping advertising clients target and optimize broad-reaching interactive campaigns. Joanna graduated from Vassar College with a B.A. in psychology. She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and graduated with departmental and general honors.

Lon Otremba

Lon Otremba is Chief Executive Officer of Tylted, which hosts one of the Mobile Web’s largest communities of social, casual gamers. The Company generates 10M unique visitors monthly and is defining a new paradigm for audience engagement at scale within the mobile browser.

Mr. Otremba was previously Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Access 360 Media. He had been their Chief Executive since January 2007. Prior to joining Access 360 Media, Mr. Otremba was CEO of Muzak Corp., the world’s largest provider of commercial music services. Before that, he was Executive Vice President of AOL's Interactive Marketing Group. Mr. Otremba was also part of the team that launched Mail.com, serving as its President, and was a Founding Member and Executive Vice President of CNET Networks. Previously, he was a senior executive at Ziff Davis Publishing and CMP Media.

Chris Peacock

As the Executive Editor and Vice President of CNNMoney.com, Chris Peacock oversees the site’s content strategy. Thus far in his tenure, which began in 2004, traffic to the site has more than doubled and user engagement metrics are soaring: CNNMoney.com is the #1 site in total minutes, streams per view, total streams and time spent per person. In addition, with an average 3 million unique visitors per month, CNNMoney.com attracts the largest mobile audience in the business/finance news category.

Previously, Peacock was the executive editor and vice president of Fortune Group Online, where he oversaw all online editorial content. Prior to joining Fortune Group Online in 2001, Peacock worked at Inside.com, where he served as managing editor and then editor. He has worked at Time Inc. New Media, Mobile Office, United Feature Syndicate, World Press Review and The Nation.

Peacock holds a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin.

Amanda Richman

As President of Digital, Amanda Richman oversees MediaVest's digital capability, team and investment for more than 15 clients, including Coca-Cola, Comcast, Procter & Gamble, and Walmart. Amanda also serves as SMG’s digital lead for Emerging Markets.

Under her leadership at MediaVest, digital has doubled -- as measured in revenue, billings, talent, clients, and capabilities. Amanda also provides broader agency leadership as a member of MediaVest's executive team. Prior to her current role, Richman served as EVP, Managing Director of Digital, and more previously served as SVP, Director of Strategy and Innovation at MediaVest on P&G.

Prior to joining MediaVest in 2005, Amanda held several senior management positions at The Interpublic Group’s interactive firms including Managing Director of Zentropy Partners and Thunder House. Amanda also held a variety of marketing and business development positions at Time Warner. She started her career at ad agency Young & Rubicam and was also Marketing Director of The Majestic Theatre, an entertainment venue in downtown Detroit.

Steven Rosenblatt

Steven is Chief Revenue Officer at Foursquare. He has held positions in the advertising and digital media industry for the last 13 years. Before joining Foursquare, Steven worked at Apple as director of advertising sales and strategy for iAd, where he oversaw sales, account management, agency relations and the creative and strategy team. Prior to launching Apple’s iAd, Steven served as Senior Vice President of Advertising Sales at Quattro Wireless, where he helped turn Quattro into the leading mobile advertising company, until it was acquired by Apple in January 2010. Steven has also worked at Dennis Publishing, the parent of Maxim.

Greg Schwartz

Greg Schwartz is Chief Revenue Officer at Zillow, responsible for sales and business strategy for the company. Previously, Greg served as Vice President of Advertising Sales at CNNMoney.com where he built the advertising sales team and platform. He also was National Accounts Director for Automotive and Finance for Yahoo! Inc. Greg also held various positions at DoubleClick, Inc., including Director of Business Development, and co-founded the wireless advertising business unit. Greg graduated from Hamilton College with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science.

Vivek Shah

Vivek Shah is CEO of Ziff Davis, Inc., a leading digital media company specializing in the technology market. Ziff Davis sites include PCMag.com, ComputerShopper.com, ExtremeTech.com, Geek.com and Toolbox.com. Ziff Davis also operates BuyerBase™, a trading desk focused on tech buyers, and LogicBuy.com, a leading provider of deals and discounts on tech products. Ziff Davis B2B is a leading provider of online research to enterprise buyers and high-quality leads to IT vendors.

Shah was formerly group president, digital at Time Inc., overseeing its news, business and sports properties. Previously, Shah served as president of the Fortune/Money Group, which included the magazines Fortune, Money and Fortune Small Business and the website CNNMoney.com.

Robin Steinberg

As EVP, Managing Director, Publishing & Digital Activation, Robin Steinberg leads the agency’s publishing capability for both converged and traditional publishing. Additionally, Robin oversees select portal relationships and content partnerships, as well as development of content-driven, cross-channel approaches and deal structures for MediaVest clients including: Mondelez, Microsoft, Walmart, Coca-Cola, Starwood and Comcast. Robin also provides broader agency leadership as a member of MediaVest's executive team and serves on the agency’s digital leadership team.

Previous to her current role, Robin served as EVP, Director of Publishing Investment and Activation. Robin joined MediaVest in 2004 as SVP, Director of Print Investment, where she led the developing of strategically-based tailored media programs.

A sought-after industry spokesperson, Robin is on the Board of ABC (Audit Bureau of Circulation), chairs the 4A’s print committee and sits on the board of the Advertising Club of New York.

Rishad Tobaccowala

Rishad Tobaccowala helps guide strategy and serves as a catalyst to innovation efforts across Vivaki – a Publicis Groupe entity. Working closely with brand CEOs and VivaKi Country Chairs, he helps VivaKi’s companies show clients the way forward in an exciting and changing time for marketing.

Prior to his current role, Tobaccowala was CEO of Denuo – a Publicis Groupe company that invents, inspires and instigates new forms of creativity to help brands meet challenges of modern marketplaces. Tobaccowala has also served as the Chief Innovation Officer of Publicis Groupe Media and was the founder and President of SMG Next, the first and most comprehensive futures practice in the media industry. Prior to SMG Next, Tobaccowala was president and founder of SMG IP, the digital arm of SMG. In 1993, Tobaccowala formed Leo Burnett’s Interactive Marketing Group. Between 1996 and 1999, he served as the President of Giant Step, Leo’s interactive agency.

Tobaccowala holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Bombay and an M.B.A. from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago.

Joe D. Weir

Joe D. Weir has been in digital media for 12 years and is currently Vice President/Digital at Belo, one of the nation’s largest pure-play, publicly-traded media companies, which owns and operates 20 television stations (nine in the top 25 markets) and their associated websites. He oversees digital strategies for revenue and audience growth that extend core franchises for new media across mobile platforms and Belo web sites, which reach more than 17 million online consumers each month. He has a successful track record at creating digital business models and products that drive impressive revenue and audience growth. Weir was named a "2010 Digital All-Star" by Broadcasting & Cable Magazine, in 2009 was named “Outstanding Young Alumnus” from his alma mater Hardin-Simmons University and in 2008 led WFAA.com to be honored with a National Edward R Murrow for online innovation.

Kristine Welker

Kristine Welker, who was named Chief Revenue Officer, Hearst Magazines Digital Media in 2010, is responsible for the branding, marketing and monetization of the company’s 24 digital brands, including magazines sites, social shopping properties and pure-digital destinations. In 2008, Welker was appointed vice president, sales and marketing for Hearst Magazines Digital Media with divisional responsibility for sales, marketing, project management, advertising operations and research analytics. Previously, Welker spent more than eight years at Hearst’s CosmoGIRL! magazine, where she was the founding publisher in 1999. In 2004, she was named vice president.

Prior to Hearst, Welker worked at Ladies’ Home Journal, 1988-1999, where she held various positions in advertising, from Sales Manager to Ad Director. Prior to her publishing career she worked at Wells Rich Greene Advertising.

Welker is a graduate of Marymount College in Tarrytown, NY.