Damien Hoffman
Founder and Board Member at The Cheat Sheet
Damien Hoffman is the former CEO of The Cheat Sheet (CheatSheet.com), a quality editorial that provides information quickly and easily on everything from business, investing & political news to tech, auto, sports, entertainment, and lifestyle. The CheatSheet reaches over 15 million uniques per month and is in the Top 10 Business Sites according to comScore. Along with his brother, Damien also founded a family foundation to support young people with cancer and their families: The Green Side Up Foundation. He earned a B.A. degree with cum laude honors from Duke University and a J.D. with cum laude honors from the University of Miami School of Law, where he was a Dean’s Merit Scholar and received the Book Award for Torts.
Damien Oh
Editor-in-chief at Make Tech Easier
Damien specializes in blogging, internet marketing, starting blog networks, traffic generation, and social media. Make Tech Easier is focussed on computer tutorials, how-to, hacks, and fixes. They want to make life easier and make complicated stuff, uncomplicated. Founded in 2007 by Damien Oh, the site now enjoys massive popularity and employs with a team of 20 writers. It reaches over three million unique users and gets over six million pageviews every month. Damien is also the MD of Uqnic Network Pte Ltd., and has an engineering degree from the National University of Singapore.
Daniel Ho Sheng
Senior Assistant Director, Business & Partnerships at Mothership.sg
Daniel is responsible for the growth of the Mothership’s business operations and commercial partnerships. He leads an enterprising 8-member team passionate about digital marketing, public communications, and campaign strategy. Mothership is a Singapore-born Internet media company. They have the highest local penetration among all digital-only media platforms in Singapore. The site attracts more than 20 million monthly pageviews from more than 4.5 million unique users. Daniel holds an MS from S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technical University, and a BA Degree from University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.
Darren Bulakowski
Head of Monetization at Pelmorex Corp.
Darren is the programmatic weather guy who prays for snow storms, better margins, and bigger bids. He is on the Board of Directors of IAB Canada and is the Head of Monetization at Pelmorex Corp., the company behind The Weather Network, MétéoMédia, Eltiempo.es, Clima, and Otempo.pt. Through constant innovation, Pelmorex has grown to reach consumers around the globe, and has become one of the largest weather information providers in the world. Darren leads monetization for Canada, Spain, the US, and emerging markets, across all digital platforms including desktop/mobile web, mobile apps, and connected TV. He is an alumnus of Sheridan College and has completed Leadership Programs from Ken Blanchard Companies and Richard Ivey School of Business.
Dinesh Joshi
AVP and Head of Ad Monitization at Jagran New Media
Dinesh has 14+ years of experience in ad monetization, strategic alliances, programmatic expertise, digital, business and sales strategy, DMPs/audience, AI/ML, analytics/data-driven strategy, partner management, operator sales (MVAS), content Strategy and product marketing. Jagran New Media (JNM) is the digital wing of Jagran Prakashan Limited (JPL), one of India’s leading media and communications group with interests spanning across print, OOH, radio and digital. Currently, JNM reaches over 76+ million users every month. Dinesh is an alumnus of IIM Calcutta (MBA), Annamalai University, and Alagappa University.
Dinesh Kumar
Co-founder of Signical
Dinesh is the co-founder of Signical in 2016, a company that hosts and manages an online job portal for people to search and get part time jobs. Tapping into the power of the gig economy, the website connects thousands of users to legitimate earning opportunities. The domain is registered under Job and Career category and receives over a million unique visitors every month. It gets 50% of its traffic from direct sources, followed by 25% from search and 25% from other sources.
Donna Robinson Evans
SVP, Revenue Operations at Healthgrades
Donna has 25 years of experience working for media companies in operationally-focused roles, specifically managing advertising, sales-support operations, and editorial and creative operations. At Healthgrades, she manages ad operations including the creation, management, and forecasting of interactive advertising inventory, manages and coaches high-performance operational teams, produces interactive premium editorial products for consumer audiences, and develops content management processes and workflows for print publications and websites. Donna completed her BA in International Studies from Miami University and holds a Certificate in Finance & Accounting from Georgia State University.
Drew Curtis
CEO at Fark Inc.
Drew is the founder and CEO of Fark.com, a news aggregator and edited social networking news website. Every day, Fark receives 2,000 or so news submissions from its readership, from which they hand-pick the funny and weird notable news—and not-news—of the day. What is Fark exactly? Fark is what fills space when mass media runs out of news. Fark is supposed to look like news… but it’s not news. It’s Fark. Drew is also the author of It’s Not News, It’s FARK: How Mass Media Tries to Pass off Crap as News, a guest on WOCM’s morning show The Rude Awakening Show every Tuesday, and an alumnus of Luther College.
Edward Furey
Founder of CalculatorSoup, LLC.
Edward specializes in XHTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, web development, database programming, and 508 accessibility. He is the founder of Calculator Soup and develops different types of online calculators, which involves selection, planning, content development, and programming in PHP. These calculators help people run the numbers on loans, mortgages, time value of money, math, algebra, trigonometry, fractions, physics, statistics, time & date, and basic and advanced conversions. Many of the calculator pages show work or equations that help users understand the calculations. He is an alumnus of Stevens Institute of Technology.
Elliot Donnelly
Head Of Programmatic at Bauer Media Group – UK
Elliot is commercially-minded Head of Programmatic with 10 years experience working on the publisher side. Elliot is skilled in both digital strategy and ad tech, with a proven track record of implementing programmatic strategies that drive substantial revenue growth. Parkers was established in 1972 as a monthly car valuation ‘book’ to help car buyers get the best price for their trade-in. Today, Parkers is the UK’s biggest car reviews and advice website, according to independent website analyst organization, comScore. Elliot is an alumnus of Queen Mary University of London.
Flavio Velasquez
Advertising & Sponsorship, Programmatic at MetOffice.gov.uk
Flavio has over 20 years of online marketing experience, across online media, e-commerce, programmatic, affiliate marketing, and other digital disciplines such as CRO, PPC, SEO, and Email. His focus has been to help a variety of industries and sectors such as Fashion, Furniture, Footwear, Department Stores, DIY Stores and Electronics fulfill their acquisition goals. He has a broad range of experience in several sectors managing the delivery of online marketing strategies and tactics. The Met Office is the national meteorological service for the UK. Flavio is an alumnus of the University of West London.
Frank Alperstaedt
Founder of UpdateStar
Frank builds companies and products within the software, mobile, white-labeling, and portal distribution and monetization space. He specializes in mobile marketing, software development, software licensing, and e-commerce. UpdateStar’s products and services are trusted by 10 million active users; the service allows users to securely backup their data, receive updates for their software and device drivers, and maintain their computers in good shape. More than 130,000 accounts are currently managed on their server facilities. Frank holds a Master’s degree from Berlin University.
