Betsy Scuteri 

Business.com      

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Betsy Scuteri is the Editor-in-Chief for Business.com where she oversees content strategy, social media, branding, email marketing and audience engagement. She has recently been nominated for 40 under 40 award and has led communication strategies for Fortune 100 companies. Her work has been published in American Express OpenFORUM, Inc.com, and Forbes.com.

Sharon Vardi

Securonix

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High Tech executive with over 20 years of experience in startup companies, leading growth and scale for startups.

Salil Sankaran

Ampcus Inc

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Salil has a successful track record of driving revenue growth for organizations including experience in mergers and acquisitions and business development. In this role, he is charged with leading Ampcus as it grows to meet expanding market needs and maintaining its leadership position in the Federal, State, Local, and commercial markets. He is responsible for establishing the strategic direction and future vision of Ampcus, and ensuring the portfolio of IT services offered is kept in sync with customer demands.

He brings along with him a vast experience of over 20 years in sales, financial and operational management. Prior to joining Ampcus, Salil has held executive and senior management positions at other small to large organizations. Salil is an MBA in Finance and a Master’s in Management Salil is an alumnus of the Delhi University in India. Salil is also an Advanced Post Graduate in systems and management.

Jason Klein

StrongView      

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A marketing communications veteran, Jason Klein has nearly 20 years of experience helping leading brands generate demand for their products and services in a competitive marketplace. Since joining StrongView in 2006, Klein has played a key role in managing a wide range of successful marketing and corporate communications programs that have been instrumental in driving awareness and adoption of StrongView's suite of cross-channel email marketing solutions.

David Laubner

ThinkingPhones

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David is a marketing and branding expert with more than 15 years of experience building brands and developing innovative programs to generate awareness and drive demand. David joined thinkingphones to oversee all marketing initiatives and take the company to the next level. Prior to thinkingphones, David spent six years working on cloud and innovation as VP of Marketing & Product Strategy at Dassault Systemes, France’s largest software company.

George Skaff

TouchCommerce

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As Chief Marketing Officer, George is responsible for all worldwide outbound marketing activities at TouchCommerce. In that role, he oversees all corporate marketing, customer marketing, demand generation, product marketing, public and industry relations. George has over 25 years of progressive experience in the computer industry, and has demonstrated a proven business expertise in marketing and strategic partnerships for various sized companies in high technology and services areas, in both the domestic and international markets. 

Natalie Tarpinian

SitePoint Media

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Natalie Tarpinian is the VP of Sales and Partnerships for SitePoint Media where she oversees advertising, business development, marketing and operations. Natalie provides powerful strategies to drive revenue and profit performance with the ability to consistently drive corporate success by conceiving, developing, and executing strategies to drive revenues, growth, and competitive market positioning.

Ron Selvey

WebDAM

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Ron leads WebDAM’s global marketing efforts and constantly develops and builds the company’s strategy and brand to foster rapid growth. A Silicon Valley veteran, Ron brings a sharp focus on hyper-active growth with creative, data-driven strategies to WebDAM. He has more than 15 years of leadership experience in B2B technology marketing, creative workflows, enterprise technology deployment and SaaS enterprise sales. Throughout his career, Ron has been instrumental in facilitating exponential revenue growth, acquisitions, and strategic partnerships at leading technology firms in the Valley. 

Nathan Burke

MineralTree

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Nathan W. Burke is the Vice President of Marketing at Boston-area startup MineralTree, and he advises early stage startup companies in Marketing strategy. He is the organizer of the Boston Startup Marketing Meetup, and regularly writes about the intersection of Marketing and Technology.

Seth Rand

Rand Marketing

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Seth Rand is the Founder and CEO of Rand Internet Marketing. With over twelve years of experience, Seth has optimized over 700 websites, achieving over 100,000 Top 10 organic search engine rankings between Google, Yahoo, and Bing. Seth has also administered over $20 million in Google AdWords pay per click advertising. Seth has been a Google Certified Partner, licensed Google Advertising Professional and Yahoo Ambassador, along with being a member of SEMPO and the eMarketing Association. 

Joseph Lasala

IgnitionOne

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Joseph LaSala serves as Marketing Director for IgnitionOne, a global leader in cloud-based digital marketing technology. Reporting to the CEO, Joseph oversees corporate marketing across the organization. With experience across a range of B2B technology marketing, Joseph has supported companies focused in ad tech, online games, business intelligence and enterprise software. Joseph graduated with honors from Hobart College and holds an MBA from the Zicklin School of Business.

Roberta Gogos

The Starr Conspiracy

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With a background in academia and broad experience in Asia and Europe, Roberta is Director of Marketing at Docebo, a world’s Top 10 ranked SaaS elearning solutions provider (top 3 in B2B!) and one of the fastest growing learning technology companies in the market. With Roberta heading Docebo's marketing team, Docebo dramatically increased revenues in North America and, at the beginning of 2015, raised $3M in growth equity from Klass Capital to accelerate the growth of its SaaS enterprise elearning platform.

Adam Stern

Infinitely Virtual

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Adam Stern, founder and CEO of Infinitely Virtual, is an entrepreneur who saw the value of virtualization and cloud computing some six years ago. Stern’s company helps businesses move from obsolete hardware investments to an IaaS [Infrastructure as a Service] cloud platform, providing them the flexibility and scalability to transition select data operations from in-house to the cloud.

Kim Morgan

Maroochy RIver Resort & Bungalows

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Kim holds a Bachelor of Business and a Diploma of Management. She has had her own business for 13 years, and has spent many years living and travelling around the world experiencing first hand different approaches to business excellence. She speaks several Asian languages (rudimentary) and have a greater cultural awareness than most.

Chris Harney

VTUG       

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Chris has been involved in IT for more than 25 years, half of which in virtualization and cloud computing. He founded the New England VMUG and built it to the largest regional VMware community in the world.

More recently Chris founded VTUG (Virtual Technology User Group) building it into the premier event and community for IT professionals to learn and discuss virtualization.

Chris is also the Director of Emerging Technologies for a 40 million dollar reseller in Portsmouth New Hampshire and helps major technology organizations, including Microsoft, with product development and market planning.

Tim Prendergast

Evident.io

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With well over two decades of experience pushing the limits of technology, Tim Prendergast, Co-Founder & CEO of Evident.io set out to create the first "next-generation" security company, Evident.io, focused solely on programmatic infrastructures (cloud). Tim co-founded Evident.io to help others avoid the pain he endured when helping Adobe adopt the cloud at a massive level. Tim’s prior experience includes leading technology teams at Adobe, Ingenuity, Ticketmaster, and McAfee. He holds over 15 years of security experience.

James Jameson

Rivo

James runs the product and marketing functions for a high growth VC (Fidelity Growth) backed UK HQ software company, Rivo that is disrupting the environmental and safety risk space for corporates around the globe. He is at the centre of product, positioning and growth decisions for Rivo. James previously led the European business of CMO Software up to acquisition by Inflexion PE. He lives and breathes tech potential and thrives at the marketing and product interface where it all happens. James also played a central role in setting up the UK's first maths school in 2013!

AJ Shankar

Everlaw

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AJ Shankar is the founder and CEO of Everlaw, where he leads a team that is building the world’s most advanced litigation platform, beginning with ediscovery. Prior to Everlaw, AJ co-founded Modista, a company that made shopping for apparel more intuitive. AJ has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and an A.B. in Applied Mathematics/Computer Science from Harvard University.

Vaibhav Khamesra

Capillary Technologies

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Vaibhav Khamesra is the director of marketing at Capillary Technologies, where he is responsible for leading marketing strategies, driving growth and building the global brand for the company’s markets in the US, UK, Asia-Pacific and Middle East-Africa regions. Passionate about disruptive marketing solutions, he works tirelessly to extend Capillary’s market leadership, develop responsive business segments, and establish new solution ecosystems to increase the company’s reach. 

Nikolett Bacso

Market Impact

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Nikolett is a strategic, collaborative team leader with 14 years expertise conceptualizing and implementing world-class global programs. She thrives on managing multiple, complex projects and leading high performing teams. She has proven success in leveraging public relations and communications to increase brand visibility and drive sales for clients.

Spencer Kollas

Experian Marketing Services

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Spencer Kollas is a recognized industry leader in email deliverability and subscriber engagement. For more than a decade, Kollas has worked with the world’s foremost email marketers to help them connect with their customers and increase the return on investment (ROI) of their email marketing initiatives.

As Vice President of Global Deliverability Services, Kollas is responsible for the product development and innovation road map of Experian Marketing Services’ email deliverability services in more than 30 countries around the world. 

Jenna Vandenberg

Fifty & Five

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Jenna has spent over a decade managing the marketing efforts of Fortune 500 brands across traditional, interactive and social platforms in the New York and Los Angeles markets. Honing her account management background at advertising agencies such as JWT, DraftFCB and David&Goliath; Jenna’s client experience spans the tourism, retail, technology, healthcare and automotive categories with clients managed such as: Macy’s, The New York Times, Hewlett-Packard and Ford.

Entering the social media marketing space in 2008, Jenna was immediately sought out by Toyota and the WGN Network to implement social media strategies that would build brand awareness and loyalty through consumer advocacy and engagement. Prior to joining Fifty & Five Jenna led a global company-wide initiative, creating a social media strategy that included emerging platforms Instagram, Pinterest and Twitter for Westfield Property Group.

Joining the Fifty & Five team in 2013, Jenna was tasked with the restructuring of the accounts management team and implementing a strategic process for all major accounts. Adopting an agency model for the Fifty & Five accounts team, Jenna managed a dozen team members, and the implementation of new training materials, systems, and processes.

Douglas Clark

Enso Associates

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Douglas Clark is chief executive officer of Métier. As one of the founders, Mr. Clark is responsible for Métier’s leadership, corporate vision and strategic plan. Mr. Clark brings over 25 years of technology and management experience to his role as the leader of Métier, which has been recognized as one of the most innovative companies in America today.

Mr. Clark received a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Systems from the University of San Francisco. He is a well-known speaker, leader and published author in his field.

Alex Hodgson

ReadCube

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After a decade working in science and technology, Alex managed companies, brands, teams, budgets, and overseen the promotion and marketing through all stages of the product life cycle. She works for companies she believes will change their corner of the world and accelerate research and discovery along the way.

Brandy Durk

Impartner

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As an industry leader in software sales, Brandy has continually driven sales. She has been in the industry for over six years and has excelled at creating and nurturing long-term relationships with everyone she encounters.

Dave Howard

Brand View

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Professional, enthusiastic, qualified marketer (PDip, ACIM) and an experienced, skilled and certified senior manager (PDip, ILM); versatile and instinctive, with excellent attention to detail and a strongly creative approach.

Responsible for B2B and B2C marketing function, strategy and execution; pipeline, revenue and lead generation activities; agency management; revenue performance management and analytics; inbound and outbound marketing; content development; leadership and team building.

Jackie Risley

Upland Software

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Jackie Risley focuses on how technology helps business achieve their goals, with a particular focus on cloud, information governance and process automation. With experience in marketing, product management and consulting, she has launched new products and expanded sales across domestic and international marketing by targeting key solution areas. Currently the director of FileBound marketing at Upland Software, she is responsible for all aspects of marketing for the cloud-native document and process automation software. 

Arthur McKinley

AddThis

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Arthur is Head of International for AddThis which is the largest global provider of “Big Data” for programmatic advertising. An Internet pioneer Arthur served as VP International at News Corp’s Delphi Internet, VP Corp Dev at WinStar, VP Business Development at Solbright, Partner at Madison Avenue Consultants and GM at AditAll / Dynamic Video. More recently he served as VP of Business Development for WPP’s Kantar Video. 

Bruce DelGrasso

DelGrasso Safety Consulting, llc

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Bruce has extensive national and international experience, giving him a unique understanding of working with diverse cultural values and disparate objectives. Over 30 years of experience in Safety, Risk and Project Management, enhanced by a firm commitment to the most innovative new technologies, have resulted in a career marked by successful projects of increasing complexity and a consistent record of dramatically reducing accidents.

Michael Pernice

enVue

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Michael brings twenty years of experience in the IT space specializing in complex, innovative sales of enterprise solutions in data, business intelligence and digital marketing. He has a keen specialization in the launch of innovative new products.

Amit Shah

Green Comma

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Managing Director Amit Shah sweats the details; leads well in uncertain terrain; and is a superb strategist of complex projects. At 23, Amit envisioned and brought to reality a not-for-profit community daycare and preschool, serving families and children on a sliding-scale fee structure. At 26, a community outreach and public affairs program for the Carter administration. At 36, a national literary magazine. Currently, he is a consultant for the Education for Democracy Institute, whose mission is to empower students through education and curriculum-based social skills and values needed to participate in and improve our democratic society. 

Tim DaRosa

Captricity

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Tim has more than 10 years of data-driven, digital marketing leadership. Prior to joining Captricity, Tim served on the leadership team at video game startup, OUYA, where he helped to generate award-winning marketing campaigns for the company’s Kickstarter debut through its successful global launch. Mr. DaRosa has also served on leadership teams at SaaS startups, YouSendIt (now HighTail) and Keas, where he led global marketing teams and strategy. Tim graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in Marketing and Communications.

Matthew Gabel

MJ Gabel

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Matthew is Managing Director of MJ Gabel, a family-owned and operated business that specializes in appraising, purchasing, and evaluating loose or mounted diamonds. MJ Gabel believes in the importance of being simple, the beauty of uniqueness, and the details of the process.

Jaime Reints

Chainalytics

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Jamie is a dynamic professional with unique combination of skill sets. Her deep love for statistics, logic and results has fueled a career path focused on supply chain, service, strategy, innovation, cost savings and operational efficiency. She has a big-picture focus to meet large scale objectives and the attention to detail to provide follow-through on the smallest projects.

Inbal Steinberg

ConvertworX

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Inbal is the founder of fast-growing Melbourne IT consultancy, ConvertworX. Harnessing experience from 20 years across three continents, Inbal is fast to get involved in the technology scene in any new environment.

Patrick Doyle

Kinemed Inc

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Entrepreneur of innovative biotechnology companies through start-up to commercialization and exit. Experienced leader with big pharma and academic background brings no-nonsense approach to commercializing intellect.

Chris Moody

Oracle

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At Oracle Marketing Cloud, Chris leads a content and social marketing team tasked with building awareness, generating demand, and increasing their market share in an insanely competitive marketplace. The content strategy that he’s built is dependent on the success of marketers, and Oracle Marketing Cloud’s goal is to help marketers grow in their careers. Before joining Oracle, Chris previously worked at Red Hat, Bandwidth.com, and several startups.

Melissa Hourigan

Digital Idea Media

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With more than fifteen years of high-tech and start-up PR agency experience, Melissa has demonstrated proven communications leadership in the areas of company/product launches, pre- and post-IPO activities, partner and channel communications, customer audits, thought leadership and product performance and social media and influencer programs. Melissa has helped build buzz-building campaigns for companies such as AtScale, AlwaysOnNetwork, Ask.com, Closely, GeoEye, LeftHand Networks, MarkLogic, Network Appliance.

Matt Satell

Better Buys           

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Matt Satell leads all marketing efforts as Better Buys’ Marketing Director. With experience in building and developing a digital audience, Matt has led Better Buys to become a leading resource for software and technology buyers.                                        

Andrew Ching

E-Plus Entertainment Productions

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Andrew has more than  19 years of experience in the event management industry. He founded E-Plus Entertainment Productions (M) Sdn Bhd in 2004, providing both local and international clients with a host of services ranging from design and production to media planning and communications. Among his credits is the immensely popular Melaka Art & Performance Festival, which is regarded as the world’s largest award-winning independent site-specific arts festival. He has won the “Prestigious Entrepreneur” and the “Prestigious Personal Improvement or Accomplishment” accolades at the 21st Century The Prestigious Brand Award 2015.

Rob Infantino

Openbay

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Rob is the founder and CEO of Openbay, the only nationwide online marketplace for auto repair. He was inspired to start the company after his dealership's service advisor attempted to overcharge him for unnecessary repairs. He has always enjoyed working on his own cars, performing everything from transmission replacements to engine rebuilds, and has spent time working in a pit crew on modified stock cars. A noted authority on vehicle repair, interviews with Rob have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, BBC Autos, Boston Globe, and NY Daily News, among others. Prior to Openbay, Rob founded Astrum Software (acquired by EMC Corporation), AcerSoft and Acorn Software. He currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors for UConn Ventures and serves on advisory boards for several Boston area companies.

Valentine Oldham

Openbay 

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Valentine has 12 years of experience in public relations, primarily for luxury automotive brands, and more recently leading PR for Openbay, the only nationwide online marketplace for auto repair. Prior to Openbay, Valentine served as AOL’s director of women’s lifestyle & automotive PR, Bentley Motors Inc’s PR Manager, and her career began at Mercedes-Benz USA, where she progressed through a series of PR roles. She’s a graduate of Boston University’s College of Communications. 

Baxter Denney

New Relic

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Baxter Denney is a digital marketing native, having cut his teeth in Sales and Product Marketing roles at Corporate Executive Board before serving as a marketing consultant to the GOP, Cleveland Cavaliers, and many other organizations. Since then he has worked on the client side in management roles focusing on Marketing Operations and Demand Generation teams at Citrix Systems and Couchbase. He currently manages the Demand Generation, Customer Experience, and Marketing Operations teams at New Relic. Baxter has also won several awards from prominent organizations including Marketo, SiriusDecisions and MarketingSherpa.

Jonathan Laverentz

Second City Works

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Jonathan is  an experienced marketing strategist and innovator passionate about partner and customer acquisition and retention; with proven successes in driving incremental brand strategies, visibility and sales growth in B2B and B2C markets. Adept at founding and growing new marketing teams; he enjoys building strategic marketing plans within organizations, and designing and executing seamless creative vision.

Susan Miller

AnyPresence, Inc.

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Susan manages enterprise partnerships, alliances, and strategy for AnyPresence. She has extensive sales, marketing, and strategy experience across a variety of companies and industries in the US, EMEA, and APAC. Most recently, Susan held a senior leadership role at Corporate Executive Board, a global NYSE company, where she led an SMB start-up division, including responsibility for $60M+ growth, 175+ staff and 5000+ customers. She also developed CEB's Global Product Support advisory services and managed various Sales, Marketing, and Research teams. Prior to CEB, Susan was a strategy consultant for Mercer Management Consulting. She is an active volunteer with the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, an start-up mentor, a Board member of several non-profit organizations, a member of the Army Navy Women's Tennis team, and a busy mom of four children.

Debbie Demooy

Rad Bookkeeping & Business Solutions

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Debbie is the founder of Rad Bookkeeping & Business Solutions. Over the years she has met so many inspirational business owners and help them on their path to success by guiding them through all financial aspects of running a business. 

Jillian M. Harris

FLY Communications

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Jillian is an experienced art director and user experience designer with more than 15 years developing and executing concepts for traditional and digital advertising. She has worked on more than 50 global and national brands ranging from nonprofit and education to alcohol and fashion. She has designed 11 books including “The Art and Science of Digital Printing” published by Xerox in 2005. She also designed the prototype for a literacy courseware product that won a $100,000 Gates Foundation Literacy Challenge Courseware Grant. 

Tony O'Dowd

KantanMT

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Tony O’Dowd is the Founder and Chief Architect of KantanMT.om, a cloud-based Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) solutions provider. He is a serial entrepreneur and localization veteran with more than 25 years’ experience working in the language industry. Tony has previously held senior positions at Lotus Development Corporation, Symantec Corporation, Corel Corporation Ltd., and Alchemy Software Development, which he founded in 2000. Tony holds a BSc. in Computer Science from Trinity College Dublin, and a Fellowship from the Localization Research Institute at the University of Limerick. He is currently a member of the governance board of the CNGL Centre for Global Intelligent Content at Dublin City University.

Thomas Paton

Boost Marketing 

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As one of the world’s few dedicated award-entry consultants, Thomas provides specialist award-writing and consultancy services to SMEs and multinationals across all major sectors. Thomas has an excellent track record in Clean Tech, Energy & Utility, Construction and Financial Services awards, and has secured notable wins for numerous FTSE 350 companies. Thomas is currently building relationships with clients and awards organizers based on the US East Coast, ahead of the opening of Boost Marketing’s New York office.

Adam Dalezman

Synthesio        

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Adam Dalezman is the Public Relations Manager at Synthesio, the leading global Social Intelligence platform. In this role, he heads Synthesio's media and analyst relations, social media strategies, blog and content creation strategies.

Adam has been working in PR for nearly a decade in various industries, including technology, beverage, real estate, legal, consumer and business-to-business. Throughout Adam’s career, he has had the opportunity to work with some of the world’s biggest companies (Hewlett Packard, ESPN, PepsiCo and Novartis) as well as some of the most innovative start-ups (Synthesio, Beamr, JPEGmini, KoolSpan and Connect2.Me), giving him a unique perspective on how a company can reach the right audience.

Jeremiah Johnson

KPI Partners    

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Jeremiah Johnson is a visionary business development & technology professional with over 15 years of experience in the field of high-technology consulting services. A unique blend of marketing savvy and technical acumen provides the ability to bring proper perspective to positioning technology-driven products and services.

Sajid Mohamedy

Nisum Technologies

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As head of strategy and business development, Sajid works across Nisum's functional areas to identity opportunities for growth. He also, works closely with clients to understand business objectives and how the right technologies can help achieve those targets. Sajid brings extensive experience in management consulting and entrepreneurship, having worked in multiple sectors including media, retail, clean-tech, CPG and automotive. Prior to Nisum, Sajid launched a startup (Kolibri) in the solar industry, and worked as a consultant for EY and Mercer. Sajid received his MBA from UCLA Anderson, and dual BA degrees in Economics and Political Science from UCLA. He lives with his wife in Los Angeles, and enjoys traveling to places he doesn't know the language.    

Dave Phillipson

CEO space    

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Dave has been an entrepreneur since the age of 6 and since then has had massive failures that taught him lessons and lucky breaks that confirmed the lessons. He has been a multi-year judge for the prestigious International Collegiate Business Plan Competition. He has been a producer for the Wall Street Network, advised companies such as Ford, Century 21, Remax and many others. He is now the director of Global Operations at CEO Space, which again is ranked #1 as an Entrepreneur MUST and has been the top resource for nearly 30 years.

RP Singh

Sirez Group

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RP Singh is a digital marketing specialist with over 15 years of digital and new media experience of working in APAC and the Middle East.

In his current role as Chief Executive Officer of Sirez Group, RP looks after 6 companies under Sirez umbrella viz. Sirez, Kontent Cart, YourPictureNews, MRP Digital, Apptology and Sample&Try. He has experience of working with leading media networks like WPP and Starcom MediaVest Group & IPG Mediabrands group. 

RP has served organizations such as GroupM, Starcom, Ogilvy, Trident Group and Smile Interactive and has worked on brands like P&G, General Motors, Amex, Diageo, Qualcomm, Nokia, Lufthansa, Pepsico, Economist, British Airways, GSK, Tourism New Zealand, HSBC, Ford, Perfetti Van Melle, Akzo Nobel, Apollo Tyres, GE Money and Hero Honda among others.

RP is a renowned trainer & expert on Digital Marketing and has trained over 2,000 marketers so far in Digital Marketing. RP has successfully launched Asia’s 1st Content Marketing Conference in India known as CMS Asia. He is a digital columnist on ClickZ, an active blogger and a visiting faculty at leading B Schools. 

Angela Newman

Redfin

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Angela Newman leads corporate communications and social media for Redfin. Redfin is a full service real estate brokerage, powered by technology. Prior to joining Redfin, Angela did product PR at Facebook, lead the consumer PR launch of Xbox One and brought Spotify to the US.

Giangi Razeto

F.lli Razeto & Casareto s.p.a.           

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Designer and maker of marine accessories and jewelry. Giangi  received the Big Innovation Award in 2014 with his Free Go Leo luminous handles with safety and management features.

Jacob Babcock

NuCurrent           

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Jacob Babcock is co-founder and CEO of NuCurrent, a leading developer of high-efficiency antennas for wireless power applications. As CEO, he focusses on leading technology development and commercialization, building strategic partnerships, developing a world-class IP portfolio, communicating with stakeholders and growing the business. NuCurrent's high efficiency antennas make wireless power transfer possible at greater distances, smaller sizes, and faster speeds.

Dan McMaster

3M       

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Dan is the Global Business Director for the Oral Wellness Business Unit within 3M Health Care, a business he has helped build from the early stages.  The business develops hardware, software, consumable products, and related services for dental and orthodontic professionals around the world.

Dan’s expertise lies in building tech-based businesses with disruptive business models.   Dan has a unique ability to build high-performing teams and chart a steady path through uncertainty.

Georgette Pascale

Pascale Communications 

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With more than 18 years experience in PR including corporate, healthcare, e-commerce, music, technology, travel, and consumer, Georgette believed there was a better way to do business than the traditional bricks-and-mortar agency model. Over a decade ago, she launched Pascale Communications (PC), a virtual communications firm, and today employs over 20 professionals serving a wide range of healthcare and consumer health clients.

In early 2013, PC launched PCc, a new division created to leverage the vast and diverse experience and expertise of its senior level staff members in fields outside of healthcare.

Christiaan Danzfuss

Brammer PLC

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Christiaan is the Business Integration Manager at Brammer PLC, Europe’s leading supplier of quality industrial maintenance, repair and overhaul products. Heading up the Business Integration team, his main responsibilities lie within Business Intelligence and Pricing. His core responsibilities include requirements gathering, functional specification, data integration, reporting, analytics and decommissioning as needed.

Chuck Brooks

Sutherland Government Solutions

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Charles (Chuck) Brooks serves as the Vice President for Government Relations & Marketing for Sutherland Global Services. Chuck leads Federal and State & Local Government relations activities. He is also responsible for the Marketing portfolio (Media, PR, Digital Outreach, Thought Leadership, Strategic Partnering, Branding) for the Federal and State & Local markets. Chuck is also an Advisor to the Bill and Melinda Gates Technology Partner network and serves on Boards to several prominent public and private companies and organizations. Chuck has extensive service in Senior Executive Management, Marketing, Government Relations, and Business Development and worked in those capacities for three large public corporations.

Jay Bean  

FreshLime

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Jay Bean is the founder and CEO of FreshLime and is a focused and innovative entrepreneur with over a decade of online marketing and digital experience. Jay has a proven record of growing digital media technology and online advertising-based businesses with his singular vision. Jay brings to market start-ups that offer tremendous value to its customers, employees, and shareholders. Jay was the founder of ah-ha.com in 1999 and was a key driver that helped the company become one of the early leading companies in the Pay-Per-Click advertising space. After the company was acquired by Marchex in February 2003, Jay held several executive leadership positions in the company including President of its International Operations in Dublin, Ireland. Jay moved on to start local online marketing company OrangeSoda.com in 2007, shepherding the company as the CEO, through its significant growth trajectory, until its acquisition by Deluxe Corp in early 2012. Jay left his position as Chief Strategy Officer at Deluxe in June 2014 to serve as the Chief Executive Officer for FreshLime. He was named a 2009 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist. Jay has a passion for building solutions for SMBs, and for solving marketplace pain points with forward-thinking technology.    

Tony Pham

Coin 

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Tony Pham is Vice President of Marketing at Coin, a consumer electronics and financial technology company bringing simplicity and security to payments. Through the Coin developer program, wearables makers have a turnkey solution for integrating secure payments into their devices (e.g. fitness trackers, smart watches, jewelry). Prior to joining Coin, Tony served in marketing leadership roles at Anki, Life360 and Slide (acquired by Google). Tony is also a Mentor with 500 Startups.

Bryan Brochu
Chicago Innovation Awards 
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Bryan Brochu is a Senior Associate for Kuczmarski Innovation and Director of the Innovators Connection, a program of the Chicago Innovation Awards.

At his time with KI, Mr. Brochu has worked with clients in both B2B and B2C industries, including manufacturing, distribution, media services, and service operations. On a recent project, he worked with a client-integrated team from a major U.S. arcade game manufacturer to develop a portfolio of both new-to-the-category and new-to-the-world products and services that would expand the company into new markets. He managed and executed research plans to identify opportunity areas through exploring the unmet needs of distributors and operators. These insights, combined with insights obtained from consumer focus groups, led to the development of several new product and service concepts that would extend the base business of making arcade games into new locations. The resulting portfolio of new product concepts were valued at over $100MM in potential sales, and are currently in the process of development and commercialization. 

Angela Calman-Wonson

23 And Me

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Angela is Vice President of Communications for 23 and Me, the leading personal genetics company.

Angela brings 18+ years of experience in corporate, technology, healthcare, science and crisis communications. She has a proven track record of building substantive relationships with reporters, editors and producers across financial, consumer, technology, health, and trade media. She has deep experience building lean, effective in-house media relations teams, as well as managing large cross functional teams with external agency partners. She is a hands-on media relations executive with passion for game-changing technologies that improve the human condition.

Angela holds a Master of Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from the University of California, San Diego.

Maresa Friedman

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Maresa began her career in the technology industry while studying engineering, liberal studies and behavioral development in college. As Director of Corporate Operations at Halo BI she drew on her technical knowledge and cross functional capabilities.

She is a technically savvy, direct, insightful, and perceptive executive who thrives in an environment where people can collaborate and focus on a master goal.

Sudhi Seshachala

B2BSphere Inc

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Sudhi has an entrepreneur background with experience starting and completing successful ventures spanning technology, IT Services, B2B/B2C Marketplace, Supply Chain logistics, & Vendor Management. He is highly articulate and adept at influencing executives. He is an acive speaker and author.

Govindraj Muthyalu

Cashpundit Inc

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Govindraj is a CPA and has more than 25 years of finance, accounting, and IT experience. He has worked as a controller and a CFO of many multi-million dollar companies. He is the CEO of Cashpundit Inc., a startup that he founded to help businesses manage their cash flows.

Jim D'Arcangelo

Booker

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Jim D’Arcangelo leads Booker’s marketing organization, with specific focus on strategic market expansion, brand and corporate communications, product marketing, and demandgen and sales enablement. 

Jim has amassed over twenty years of experience heading early-phase marketing and business development groups for high-growth tech pioneers such as Aria Systems, Traffic.com, Media Metrix, and The Kelsey Group. Jim is a graduate of Princeton University, holds a Master of Science in Marketing from Johns Hopkins University, and a Master of Business Administration from George Washington University, where he also conducted doctoral work in Organization Development. Jim is a frequent new technology conference speaker and has been published, with Wharton Marketing Professors, in the Journal of Services Marketing.

Jim Melvin

SevOne

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Jim is a proven executive that has held leadership and CEO roles in software, hardware, and SaaS businesses. He has held full asset responsibility for P&Ls, Sales & Marketing, and Product Development at early stage and Fortune 500 businesses across diverse technologies including IT security and performance management for enterprise and carrier customers. Over the past two decades—he has delivered more than $1B in incremental value for discriminating investors through organizational transformation, value proposition repositioning, and organic/M&A growth

Jim has been awarded three U.S. patents in fault tolerant systems design. He holds a B.S. in computer engineering and an M.S. in management from Worcester Polytechnic Institute; and currently sits on the board of directors at Cape Cod Beer.

Vess Baklov

SevOne, Inc.

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Vess Bakalov leads SevOne's product development and design teams and provides strategic direction and vision for the overall technology architecture. He created SevOne with the future of digital infrastructure in mind after working with legacy solutions during his time as a network architect at BankOne.

As a founder and board member he has been instrumental in structuring the organization, obtaining financing and working on critical corporate development initiatives.

As a thought leader in the industry, he is an outspoken advocate for high-performance distributed systems and engineering for scalability as key drivers for value creation in the world of big data and IoT. He holds the patent for Scalable Performance Management System as well as a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from the University of Delaware.

Paul Tacey-Green

iCloudHosting        

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Paul Tacey-Green is a hosting industry veteran with over a decade’s experience at its cutting edge. At 25, he sold his Dedicated Server business, RapidSwitch having grown it to host over 5000 servers. His new venture, iCloudHosting, own and operate their own 60,000 sq ft data centre in Reading and provide Managed Cloud Services around the world. This includes unusual locations such as Moscow, Russia. Paul understands what it takes to build a successful business from nothing, within a highly competitive and technical landscape.

Irene Roberts    

Internet Marketing Inc.

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Irene Roberts is the Senior Creative Director at Internet Marketing Inc. (IMI), based in San Diego. She believes in cultivating a diverse, comfortable environment where creative ideas are born. She uses a true team approach in the creative process where her client is an essential part of the team. She has a proven track record of consistently delivering bottom-line results. 

She’s been an integral part of winning Hermes Creative awards, PR Daily's awards, Content Marketing awards, over 10 Romero awards, AMA award, American Marketer of the Year award, and various other industry recognitions.

Over 19 years in a variety of experiences include entertainment companies, technology corporations, financial firms, action sports groups, educational and non-profit organizations.

Murad Salman Mirza

Global Diversity & Inclusion Foundation

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Around 20 years of multi-disciplinary experience in Organizational Development, Talent Management & Business Transformation in a rich array of roles, e.g., Board Member, Senior Executive, Corporate Manager, Consultant, Trainer, Auditor, Author, etc.

Successfully guided, trained and enabled organizations from services and manufacturing sectors in gaining competitive strategic and operational advantages through ingrained core values, cohesive corporate culture, fervent embrace of diversity and inclusion practices, responsive organizational design and structures, incisive organizational development interventions, engaged talent management initiatives, robust management systems, astute use of technology and an unrelenting focus on enhancing the delight factor for internal/external customers.

Currently, serving as a Board Member with the US-based Global Diversity and Inclusion Foundation. Additionally, engaged as a Contributing Author/Blogger/Guest Columnist for several prestigious HR publications across the world.

Greg Wilfahrt

AP Technology

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Prior to serving AP Technology in his current capacity as Chief Mobility and Marketing Officer, Greg Wilfahrt founded/managed six start-ups in addition to working with some of the most successful enterprises in the world. He is often interviewed by major news and entertainment outlets internationally on issues related to mobile communications, mobile payments, marketing, social media, digital entertainment and digital content distribution.

For years, Greg Wilfahrt was a member of the CTIA WIC Leadership Council (wireless telecommunications industry). He was Chief Strategy Officer at MakeItPro, a one-stop mobile sports community, and at JYGY, a mobile messaging platform. Greg Wilfahrt co-founded SMS.ac, a wireless communications company that became the largest community of mobile phone users in the world, growing to more than 50 million registered users and attaining mobile payment integration with carriers in 187 countries. Wilfahrt was a VP at MP3.com, a publicly traded music services provider that was acquired by Vivendi Universal. He has addressed members of Congress on several occasions regarding payments, and the distribution of digital content through the Internet and via mobile devices. Greg co-authored the Mobile Payments Bill of Rights that he delivered to Congress in Fall 2015. He was an early proponent on Capitol Hill for a mobile-based early warning system to be used for homeland security and other emergency situations. Greg Wilfahrt currently is a board member at MyWurld, a mobile community and marketplace. He also is an advisory board member at WITtv, and at The TalkList.

Tony Wessels    

FusionOps         

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Tony has been a marketing leader for over 20 years with enterprise marketing experience with a special emphasis on cloud companies. Prior to joining FusionOps, Tony was Vice President of Marketing at Coupa Software. Under his leadership, Coupa became the market leader in cloud financial applications. Prior to Coupa, Tony was responsible for worldwide marketing campaigns at EMC, including its cloud campaign strategy. Tony was the Vice President of Marketing for APTARE, a storage resource management software company where he helped drive revenue growth over 100% YOY. Tony holds a BA in English from the University of Texas at Dallas.

Mikael Vinding  

AP Technology    

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Formerly founder of mobile social startup and responsible for the Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs IT/Tech liasoning to the US. Currently CTO of AP Technology managing cloud and mobile development as well as passionate about new fintech technology such as blockchain on which I am speaking on.

Ananthanarayanan Venkatesan

HDFC Standard Life Insurance Company Limited           

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An accomplished business professional with 19+ years of diversified and rich experience in Sales, Channel Management, Distribution Strategy, Business Intelligence, Analytics & large team management. Versatile professional with demonstrated expertise in domain, efficient Project management, and Top Management (CXO level) reporting capabilities. A strategist with proven track records of exceeding expectations with high degree of drive &  result orientation, backed with noteworthy collaboration people engagement and customer centricity. 

Prominent speaker on Business Insights & Life Insurance Analytics from business standpoint.

Sharon Klapka

Adore Me

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Sharon is VP of Business & Brand Development team at Adore Me. She started her career doing research & business development at the Israeli equivalent of Saturday Night Live. Graduating from law school, she interned in the high-tech department of a leading law firm, gaining hands-on experience in VC-backed financing rounds. She then joined Israel’s largest management consulting firm as management consultant in the TMT practice. Later moving to New York, she met with the Adore Me team and instantly knew it was time to join a Silicon Alley startup with a disruptive appetite. Sharon holds an MBA from INSEAD. 

Curtis Sparrer

Bospar 

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Curtis is a media professional with over twenty years of experience. He has worked with clients to create and execute media strategies across broad teams or just by myself to get kick-ass results. 

Nancy Caravetta

Rebel Cause Healthcare Communications 

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Nancy is an accomplished healthcare marketing and communications specialist with more than 25 years of healthcare communication’s experience. She has been responsible for the strategic guidance and seamless execution of award-winning US and global professional and consumer campaigns among a wide range of pharmaceutical, biotech and consumer wellness brands.

After a long career in healthcare communications, Nancy decided it was time to create a new and better model for doing business in the healthcare agency world and with her business partner and friend Jessica Goldberg the Rebel Cause agency was born.

A born entrepreneur, Nancy was the president and founding partner of the global healthcare boutique agency CPR Worldwide. Following a period of rapid growth and expansion, Nancy and her partners sold their agency to Omnicom Holdings.

Nancy has successfully launched more than 50 leading pharmaceutical products in the U.S. and across major markets around the world. She has provided high-level counseling for many global healthcare companies including Allergan, Amgen, Astra-Zeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, Galderma, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis, Roche USA and Sanofi-Pasteur. 
 

Brenna Cook 

Acquire Group Inc

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Brenna has more than 16 years of procurement and supplier management leadership experience at companies large and small. She is a transformational leader; leading change and large projects including a $40 Million dollar BPO procurement project. She has extensive experience working throughout Europe and Asia and across different industries.

Michael Seidler

V5 Systems

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Michael has over 10 years experience working in law enforcement and enterprise security. Most recently, he spent 8 years working at the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office as a Deputy Sheriff. The majority of his time there was spent assigned to the Patrol Division, before leaving law enforcement in 2015, at the rank of Detective. In 2013, the Redwood City Elks Lodge honored him as Peace Officer of the Year and in 2014, he was honored with the Outstanding Policeman Award, presented by the American Chinese International Cultural Exchange Council. Michael has a keen understanding of corporate strategy earning an MBA with Distinction, in International Business Practice from St. Mary’s University, Twickenham.

Mark Jones

Dow Chemical

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Mark Jones is Executive External Strategy and Communications Fellow for Dow Chemical, reporting directly to Dr. A.N. Sreeram, Dow CTO. Mark performs technical assessments, develops external communications and is a frequent speaker on a variety of industry related topics. He continues technical support for Dow’s Renewable Chemistries Expertise Center, is on the Board of Directors of the BIO IES, and is a frequent contributor to both ACC and WEF teams focused on renewable and sustainable chemistry. He contributed extensively to the White House’s Advanced Manufacturing Partnership and played a large role in Dow’s next generation sustainability goals and retains responsibility for the innovation goal. He is currently a member of a National Academies team reviewing the ARPAe program. He is a co-author on the NRC report “Sustainable Development of Algal Biofuels in the United States”.

Catriona Harris

Uproar PR

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Catriona Harris is the co-founder and partner of Uproar PR, which she started in 2011 as a result of recognizing the need for cutting-edge, fast paced PR and social media campaigns. Since its inception, Uproar PR has displayed record growth with nearly 600 percent across its client roster and team members, and is now an international company with four offices in prominent media markets. 

Brian Abner

Market Research Group LLC

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As an Economist and strategist, Brian conducts market studies nationally and internationally. Brian also builds solid growth strategies helping business owners successfully reach their goals. He is a contributing write for American City Business Journal (Biz Journal) and been published in trade resources including Banking New York, American Bankers Association and others.

Jennifer Colletti-Membreno

WaterAid

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In her role as Associate Director of Corporate Partnerships at WaterAid, Jennifer works with companies at all levels (from small and medium sized enterprises to multinational corporations), to achieve a simple shared goal: providing water, sanitation, and hygiene education (WASH) for those around the world without access to these basic human rights. 

Jane Barwis

BRG Communications

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As an industry veteran, Jane Barwis has been a leading PR professional for more than twenty-five years and a skilled media resource on PR/Marketing industry trends. Jane launched BRG Communications in 2001 to achieve her vision of an agency built on talent, flexibility, uncommon performance and results. Under her leadership, BRG has been recognized by Entrepreneur magazine as a “Hot 100” company to watch, named the “Fastest Growing Communications Agency in the Country” by PR Week, and consistently recognized by multiple industry organizations for the creative and strategic work they do on behalf of clients.

David Frigeri

ASCAP

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David's teams are comprised of experts at inventing and delivering data products that operate ahead of the market, produce critical insights and break through traditional information barriers. David is building ASCAP’s global data strategy by bringing together a group of smart and passionate people to solve the music industry's biggest problems through extreme data engineering, machine learning and compelling visual experiences. Previous to ASCAP, David was Senior Vice-President for ColdLight Solutions, a machine learning company delivering patented ensemble learning via a cloud platform. At Artisan, a mobile analytics startup, he was involved in all facets including target markets, requirements and roadmap as well as customer acquisition and support, Artisan was acquired by Tune. David is a Hobart College alumni, where he majored in Sociology with a focus on various descriptive, inferential and correlational statistics as well as agent based modeling and early social network analysis. David attended MIT Sloan School of Management executive programs in finance and technology leadership.

Willie Pang

MediaCom Australia

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With 20 years of experience across the globe, Willie has served as a digital innovation leader in a number of sphere. From technology infrastructure, business transformation to marketing and data automation, Willie has demonstrated a proven track record in helping the world’s leading brands to shift into a complex digital future. He currently holds the post of Chief Digital and Product Officer at MediaCom, and concurrently holds Board positions with a range of exciting technology start-up organisations. It is with this expertise that he co-founded ViDM/Emerge Digital in 2010 and which was crowned Silicon Valley's fastest growing company by Inc. Magazine in 2012.   Prior to founding ViDM, Willie served as Managing Director of Yahoo! Search Marketing for Australia and New Zealand. He was responsible for the company’s operations throughout the region and its outstanding growth record. Willie was also Vice President, Sales and Business Development at leading publicly listed Australian IT&T provider, Melbourne IT Limited, and during his five years there, he successfully established the company’s market presence in key growth markets across the Asia Pacific.   He’s served as committee member and judge for the IAB, MFA and the Australian Trade Commission’s Innovation Advisory Council.

Tom Robinson

MediaCom Australia

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As Head of Content Strategy & Distribution, Tom oversees the delivery of all content strategies for MediaCom’s clients. With a background in SEO & Social Media, Tom started his career at one of the largest specialist digital agencies, Latitude Digital Marketing. In this role, Tom worked across some of the UK’s biggest digital accounts including the Post Office, RBS Insurance & Tesco. Tom then joined a digital start up agency and was responsible for developing both the SEO & Social products. Within its first year, Venn Digital was shortlisted for Start Up of The Year in 2010 at the Drum Marketing Awards. In 2011, Tom joined MediaCom, working across clients including Volkswagen Group, Electronic Arts, P&G and Shell. Over the last 3 years Tom has supported and overseen the restructure of MBA to support the delivery of a more integrated content offering for the agency, culminating in MBA being awarded Content Marketing Agency of the Year at the 2014 BEfest awards.