Jake Sullivan
Director of Programmatic at US News & World Report
Jake heads the programmatic operations at US News & World Report, a leading multi-platform publisher of news and information. Before that, he has worked as a Programmatic Yield Analyst at The Daily Beast. Jake became invested in publishing and programmatic revenue while working for BounceX, where he started as an Account Manager, eventually being promoted to Director of Publisher Solutions. Prior to these experiences, he started his career as a Content Writer at The Taunton Press and as an Editorial Intern for Mindspark Interactive Network, Inc. Jake has a bachelor’s from Wake Forest University.
Jan Fischer
Head of Panel Management at SPLENDID RESEARCH
Jan has spent 4.5 years at Splendid Research, where he served many roles including Junior Panel Manager and Panel Manager before being promoted as the Head of Panel Management. Splendid Research is an international market research company headquartered in Hamburg, Germany. The company offers quantitative and qualitative research-based reports to its customers using data collection and analysis. Some of their key areas for providing well-researched reports are mystery shopping, tourism, employee survey, etc. Jan completed his BA in Political Science from University of Bremen.
Jason Eng
CEO & Co-founder of Just Jared Inc.
Jason became the CEO of JustJared Inc. in 2017 . It is a multi-media entertainment group with two websites currently active, JustJared.com and its teenage spin-off JustJaredJr.com. Along with his team, Jason has ensured that the websites regularly post content around pop culture trends, celebrity news, and entertainment in general. Both websites receive approximately 10 million users a month, including a community of loyal readers, Prior to working as CEO, Jason worked as a Financial/Market Analyst at several companies including Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, FAM Global Investments. He has Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the Columbia University in New York City.
Jean-Marc Runner
Co-founder at Rank Me Up
Jean-Marc is an experienced co-founder with a demonstrated history of working in the Internet industry for more than 10 years. He co-founded Pixweb Media in 2012, an Internet agency based in Morocco. The agency specializes in the development of websites including designing, content management, social media promotion, etc. He is also the co-founder of Rank Me Up, one of the largest and highest quality online networks dedicated to coupons, freebies, discounts and giveaways. He is skilled in search engine optimization, user experience, branding & identity, e-commerce, and WordPress. He completed his Bachelor’s in Graphic Design from University of Quebec.
Jeremy Burge
Founder of Emojipedia
Jeremy is the founder of Emojipedia which is a site dedicated to emojis, now receiving over 30 million pageviews each month. He also created the World Emoji Day, celebrated globally on July 17. Business Insider listed Burge in the UK Tech 100 in 2016, 2017, and 2018, calling him “The Emoji Maestro”, while others have used terms such as “Emoji King” or “The Lord of Emojis”. Currently representing Emojipedia on the Unicode Technical Committee, Burge previously held a position as vice-chair of the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee from 2017 to 2019. Burge urged Apple to rethink its plan to convert the handgun emoji symbol into a water pistol icon in 2016, citing cross-platform confusion.
Jessica Barrett
Ad Tech Industry Expert & Speaker
Jessica is an experienced programmatic professional and speaker with a demonstrated history of delivering success in newspapers and ad tech. Jessica is skilled in advertising operations, sales, media planning, B2C marketing, and product. She holds a Bachelor of Science focused in Marketing and IT Management from State University of New York at Albany. In her last role, Jessica spent more than 6.5 years at Financial Times in various key ad ops leadership roles, including Campaign Manager, Head of Programmatic Operations, U.S., Global Head of Programmatic, and Director of Programmatic & Commercial Automation.
Jim Scharf
Sr. Digital Program Manager at Cabela’s and Bass Pro Shops
Jim manages internal teams and agency partnerships for managing paid search, display/programmatic, and affiliate advertising for the entire network of Bass Pro Shops, leading national retailer of outdoor gear and apparel with more than 100 retail and marine center locations across North America. Jim’s work includes all major processes related to managing a modern advertising stack—bid management, creation, optimization, reporting, and testing. He is an expert in Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics, and WebTrends. Jim holds a bachelor’s in science from Metro State College.
Joe Alderson
Chief Operating Officer at Valnet
Joe is an advertising operations professional whose experiences spans product launches, marketing strategy, and execution, operational scaling, instructional marketing, and franchising. His specialty is advertising optimization, and he is particularly passionate about technology and how it can support and advance the world of marketing. Joe is the COO of Valnet, a leader in online media publishing industry, that creates and distributes original content for its brands and audiences, worldwide. Joe holds a BBA from the Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Jonathan Puckey
Jonathan is the founder of Radio Garden
Jonathan founded Radio Garden, an interactive online website that allows users to explore radio stations around the world as they are broadcast live. The website was created by Amsterdam-based design companies Studio Puckey and Moniker, which were approached by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision to develop an installation for a research project about radio called Transnational Radio Encounters. This project focused on building a radio collective that crosses linguistic and geographical barriers. Jonathan is an alumnus of Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam.
Jonathan Ripp
Director, Programmatic Yield, and Analytics at WarnerMedia
At Warner Media, Jonathan leads the Programmatic Yield and Analytics department in his capacity as Director. Prior to Warner Media, he worked at Turner as a Senior Programmatic Yield Manager. He has been working closely with all SSPs to maximize programmatic revenue across all brands of Turner. In addition to his project management skills, he has a knack of closely working with the Sales teams to deliver results. He has also worked as a Monetization Analyst for AppNexus and as a Client Success Consultant for Yieldex. Jonathan has a MA Degree from American University.
Joon seok Lee
VP of Advertising & GM of OnDemandKorea / Co-founder at ODK Media, Inc.
Joon Seok Lee has been associated with ODK Media Inc. for almost 6 years now. The company was incorporated in December 2011 and has become the standard of integrity in the online media industry. His site has a reach in more than 27 countries. Ondemandkorea provides a streaming service delivering Korean TV Shows, movies, news, k-pop, and more. He leads the Advertising, Product, and new Business as Vice President of Advertising & GM. Lee has also worked as a Project & Marketing Manager for Oitman, Inc. Between the years 2007 – 11, Lee studied at the University of California, Irvine, and acquired a Bachelor’s Degree in Managerial Economics.
Joshua Sowin
CEO of Brainjolt
As the CEO of Brainjolt, Joshua has helped scale readership to over 100 million users monthly. 22 Words, the flagship viral site of Brainjolt is in the Top 10 most popular mobile sites in the US owing to his leadership and team efforts. He is obsessed with out-of-the-box thinking and is inquisitive about everything. His team includes a tight-knit bunch of data and growth automation professionals. Joshua has been directly involved in founding many companies prior to working at Brainjolt. These companies include Abuyo Media, Rural Property Finder, Rainsong Media, and Beacon Ad Network. He studied Philosophy and Religion at Southeastern College at Wake Forest.
Kate Seamons
President and Editor-in-Chief, Newser
She manages all operations and development for Newser.com, a Chicago-based news aggregator with a hallmark two-paragraph approach to the news. She is extremely dedicated, with a proven ability to develop, lead, and motivate staff and communicate with confidence to the Board of Directors. She is responsible for forming and maintaining partnerships with companies that have included United Online, EarthLink, USA Today, Fox News, AT&T, Synacor, and Ozy. She has a BSJ Degree in Journalism from Northwestern University.
Keith Zammit
Head of Online Sales at Allied Newspapers Limited
Keith is a digital professional with a demonstrated history of results in the industry spanning nearly 10 years. He is trained and experienced in sales strategy and planning and operations management He has graduated from the University of Malta in Communications and worked with some of the leading companies locally and Internationally. Keith is currently responsible for the full online sales portfolio of Malta’s largest news agency and most visited website, Times of Malta, managing a team of salespersons to deliver excellent results to their advertising partners.
Ken Maxwell
Co-Founder of Proxibid
His specialties include Web Site Design, User Interface Design, Search Engine Optimization, Print & Direct Mail Marketing, Online Banner Advertising, and Rich Media Marketing. The motto of the business is straightforward-If you can buy it online, you can buy it on Proxibid. In 2019, Proxibid had 4,000 unique auctioneers, asset owners, and consignors with buyers from 190 countries, and the total GMV of B2C & B2B inventory was over $5,000,000,000. Ken has studied Fine & Performance Arts with an emphasis on painting, sculpture & art history from the University of Nebraska – Lincoln.
Kerstin Gibson
SVP Business Development and Strategic Partnerships at System1
She has a demonstrated history of building and leading organizations along with a fervor of developing strategic partnerships. She has an extensive background and understanding within the online search monetization industry. Kerstin has negotiated and closed strategic, multi-year, multi-million dollar contracts unlocking tons of value. She was a key member involved in the successful acquisition of the Infospace Search business for $45M to OpenMail (System1). System1 has over 30 million visitors to the site every month. She has an MBA from Seattle University.
Kevin Lewandowski
CEO at Discogs.com
He is on a mission to build the biggest and most comprehensive music database and marketplace. Discogs aims to be the one-stop-shop with discographies of all cross-referenced labels and artists. The heart of Discogs is a ‘user-built’ database of music. Well on his way, more than 526,000 people have already contributed in one form or another, to build up a catalog of more than 12,705,968 recordings and 6,962,523 artists. Originally created as a hobby project in 2000 by Kevin, Discogs has now grown to become a definitive resource for Vinyl and CD recordings. Kevin is an alumnus of Loyola University New Orleans.
Krishna Rungta
CEO at Guru99
Krishna has over 15 years of professional experience in Software development and testing. From an individual contributor to technical lead, and today as CEO of Guru99, Krishna has seen it all. Guru99 is on a mission to make education fun & free for all. With formal education costs at an all-time high, Krishna believes that education has become expensive and out of reach for many. With Guru99, he intends to provide a platform where students can learn easily. He has a BE degree from Mumbai University.
Leo Resig
CEO and Co-Founder of Atmosphere. Co-Founder of theCHIVE, Chive Charities, William Murray Golf, and Resign Wine
His business mission is to make the world a happier place. A veteran of the digital media and e-comm space and a pioneer of the streaming TV space, Leo reconstructs TV programming for businesses in the post-cable world. He co-created theCHIVE with his brother John Resig. The 12-year-old website and app is still the largest men’s humor and lifestyle website in the US. They spun-off CHIVE TV in 2019 into a new streaming-tv-for-business platform called Atmosphere, which is the first and largest streaming TV service for businesses. He studied at Indiana University, Bloomington.
Lincoln Gunn
Head of Global Operations and Partnerships at Fandom
Lincoln specializes in online advertising and monetization, direct sales, partnerships, negotiation, video hosting, and Outstream video. Other than that, he is also well versed at research and development, competitive/vendor analysis, account management, and building strong business teams. He heads the Global Operations at Fandom which has a worldwide reach of over 200 million users per month and represents more than 400,000 communities. Lincoln is an alumnus of Princeton University and Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Lon H.
Digital Programmatic Yield Manager at Deseret Digital Media (KSL.com and DeseretNews.com)
Lon has a solid foundation in Sales and extensive expertise in Media and Advertising. He is a leader in the Media industry. In his 12-year career, he has worked with brands such as Chase, Coca-Cola, Google, Home Depot, Toyota, and Verizon. Under his watch, ksl.com has seen massive growth, clocking approximately 18 million monthly page views and 4 million monthly uniques (home page only). He is an alumnus of Weber State University.
