Ali Berman is a Partner and the Head of Digital Talent at leading global talent and entertainment company United Talent Agency (UTA), where she focuses on representing the Internet’s brightest stars. Berman represents digital influencers and content creators, such as TikTok stars Charli and Dixie D’Amelio; the Internet’s “It-Girl” Emma Chamberlain; hosts of the most-watched daily show on the Internet, Rhett & Link; Jimmy Tatro; #IMOMSOHARD; Andrew Bachelor aka “KingBach;” Jenn McAllister aka “JennxPenn;” and Buzzfeed content creator turned YouTube phenomenon Safiya Nygaard.

Berman was featured in Variety’s 2015 class of “Hollywood’s New Leaders” and in Broadcasting & Cable’s “18 Under 34” list. Berman joined UTA in 2011 after beginning her career in the agent trainee program at ICM. She received her B.A. in English from Tufts University.

As co-founder and CTO of Innovid (NYSE:CTV), Tal leads the company’s long term technology vision, overseeing global technology development and implementation, product creation, business development and partnerships. Tal previously served as an officer in the Israeli Air Force and co-founded Garage Geeks. Tal is an IAB board member and owns several global patents for interactive TV technology.

David Cohen joined IAB in April 2020 as President and was named Chief Executive Officer in September 2020. Cohen is a widely respected advertising agency leader who, prior to IAB, served as President, North America for MAGNA, Interpublic Group’s (IPG) centralized media intelligence, investment, and innovation arm. In this role, Cohen was responsible for more than $20 billion in media spend. During his tenure, Cohen structured and executed large global transactions on behalf of IPG and its clients, with such major IAB member companies as Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Spotify, Twitter, and Verizon Media.

Prior to MAGNA, Cohen served as Chief Investment Officer of UM, ensuring that digital innovation, data, and technology acumen flowed throughout the agency to drive performance. From 2001 to 2011, Cohen served in critical, transformational roles at UM during the explosive growth of digital advertising, including Chief Media Officer, Chief Digital Officer, and Executive Vice President, U.S. Director of Digital Communications. In the late 1990’s, Cohen was responsible for launching and building IPG’s digital practice.

Cohen has a long history of working with trade organizations including IAB and 4As, where he served as chairman of the Interactive Marketing Committee from 2009-2013. He has also been instrumental in initiating several vital industry-wide programs, including the Future of Television, facilitated by EY. Cohen is a Queens native, with a bachelor’s degree in communications from Adelphi University. He was recognized by Adweek as a “Media All Star” and was part of the “Adweek 50” in 2012.

In 2016, David was elected to the Board of Directors of Partnership with Children a non-profit whose mission is to strengthen the emotional, social, and cognitive skills of vulnerable children in New York City to help them succeed in school, society, and life.

David enjoys spending time with his wife and two teenage daughters. A self-described gadget-geek and sometimes fitness fanatic – he ran the NYC Marathon in 2014 and 2019 and Boston Marathon in 2016.

Heidi D’Amelio, maybe best known as mom to Dixie and Charli, two of the most popular names in social media today but there is a lot more to juggling being a wife and mom than meets the eye. Heidi started her professional career as a model and fitness trainer but when she met her husband Marc in NYC, she knew her dream of always wanting to be a mom was the path she wanted to take. The couple married, moved to Connecticut, and started their family where, teaching her children about values, reputation and giving back to others became a central conversation for all 4 members even before the family skyrocketed to fame.

Utilizing her love for dance and a decade of practice, Heidi’s youngest daughter Charli started posting dances on the popular app Tik Tok and literally overnight became the most followed name on the platform. The family soon joined in and currently have a combined following of over 200 million. Heidi’s dedication to being a present but not overbearing mom has grown her own following of over 9 million and growing.

On top of being a full-time mom and overseeing her family’s demanding schedules, Heidi continues to pursue her passions which include health and wellness, fitness and philanthropy. Balancing personal and work life and ensuring the internet is a safe place not only for her daughters but for other teens is always her main priority. Her and Marc launched their own podcast, The Other D’Amelios and most recently the family’s docuseries The D’Amelio Show (on which she serves as an executive producer) launched on Hulu. Heidi has also made it a point to use her and her families platforms for good raising awareness and donations for Covid-19, childhood cancer causes and natural disasters such as the hurricanes in her hometown of Louisiana. 

Beth-Ann Eason is President of Innovid overseeing Innovid’s global sales, marketing, and client services teams. Previously, she held several executive roles at Condé Nast, including SVP, Digital Development and SVP/GM of Epicurious. She was part of an exclusive group inducted into the AAF Hall of Achievement. She is a founding member of W.O.M.E.N., a professional women’s mentoring program and served on the boards for the Online Publishers Association, the IAB, the AAF, and the Advertising Club of New York.

A seasoned executive with 24+ years of digital media, marketing and operations experience, Angelina Eng has focused her career on supporting agencies and brands to define, build and manage digital media and marketing efforts while enabling teams to operationally work efficiently and effectively with both internal and external partners and platforms. She’s been responsible for the development and management of internal systems and workflow, establishment of deliverable standards, designing ad trafficking and tracking guidelines, implementation of emerging platforms, as well as establishing best practices at companies such as Morgan Stanley, Merkle, Dentsu Aegis and Publicis Modem.

Over the years, She has been involved with multiple organizations and events to help define, establish and advocate some of the industry standards that we see in today’s digital media ecosystem (such as ad verification/brand safety, ad fraud, viewability and programmatic, social, etc)

Angelina has been awarded the AdMonsters 2018 Power List, IAB Data Rockstar 2016 and AdMonsters Digital Media Leadership Award 2016.

Mike Fisher is an advanced television advertising strategist with over a decade of experience in strategic partner development, product strategy, client solutions, and more. With a deep understanding of the advanced media landscape, emerging technologies, and traditional television, Mike is continually defining innovative and insightful ways for advertisers and media owners alike to leverage Advanced TV solutions at scale. Mike joined Essence in early 2020 to lead the Advanced TV and Audio practice, working across all clients to operationalize innovation and growth of the ecosystem.

Adam Gerber is Executive Director, US Investment Strategy for GroupM, WPP’s media investment group, collectively representing more than $14B in investment from the world’s largest and most dynamic advertisers, including NBCUniversal, Unilever, Ford, Google, Mars, The Coca-Cola Company, and L’Oreal.

In his role, Gerber leads initiatives to help GroupM’s clients create and capture value across a rapidly changing media landscape by co-developing new advertising models with media companies, defining and scaling omni-channel addressable capabilities, and creating competitive advantages in an era of platform-based, data-driven campaign management.

Gerber first joined GroupM in 2017, previously serving as Global Chief Investment Officer at Essence, recognized as one of the industry’s most innovative media agencies. Prior to Essence, Gerber spent six years at ABC/Disney where he departed as SVP, Client Development & Communications and served four years as an evangelist for the digitally-oriented audience measurement and targeting company Quantcast as Chief Marketing Officer.

Gerber began his career in 1990 working across a variety of roles at startups and media agencies including Brightcove, America Online, Mediavest Worldwide/Publicis, Ammirati Puris Lintas/IPG and J Walter Thompson/WPP.

A regular commentator on issues affecting advertisers, Gerber has been recognized by Adweek and Mediaweek as one of the industry’s leading figures in media and served as chairman of the 4A’s Interactive Marketing & New Media Committee from 2001-2003. He holds a B.S. degree in Journalism and a B.A. degree in International Relations from Boston University, and resides in Westchester with his wife and two children.

Sheryl Goldstein is the Executive Vice President, Chief Industry Growth Officer at the IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau). In her role, she oversees engaging the IAB’s 650+ members across all of the IAB’s vast initiatives, activities and thought leadership programs. Under Sheryl’s watch are the Member Engagement, Centers of Excellence, Research and L&D teams. She also spearheads talent development, diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and runs the IAB CRO Council.

Sheryl Goldstein is a “net vet” with over 20 years of driving meaningful revenue growth through consultative selling in the dynamic digital landscape (Yahoo, AOL, About.com). She is adept at building successful teams, developing go-to-market strategies and gaining consensus across key stakeholders. Her background includes a wide variety of digital media platforms and technologies and numerous leadership roles.

In addition to her experience as a sales leader, Sheryl brings years of talent development and training to her role and is committed to making the digital media landscape a great industry for diverse talent to thrive and have a long and exciting career.

Sheryl is a current board member for 212NYC, Makers and was a past Board member of She Runs It. She serves on the Rutgers Business School Advisory Board for Marketing and is helping RBS craft a digital marketing graduate program. In addition, she has served on Boards and Committees for the NY Ad Club, Women in Communications, Inc. and the IAB and is a member of Chief. She is an award-winning sales leader (Yahoo Accelerator Award, AOL Best Media Partner presented by Verizon, AOL Presidents Club, AWNY Crystal Award Winner).

Sheryl is a graduate of Syracuse University Newhouse School and lives in New Jersey with her partner Cindy and dogs Pancho and Camden. On the weekends, you can catch her on the pickleball court or riding around the Jersey Shore on her new electric bike. Her daughter Sarah-Jaana lives in the Boston area with her husband Michael.

Dustin Goot is Head of Creator Solutions at TikTok for the Americas, where he oversees programs to foster successful collaborations between brands and agencies and TikTok creators. Previously, Goot led influencer marketing teams at ZEFR and Fullscreen. He has managed the development of software-based creator discovery tools; scaled operations teams to support creator-driven marketing services; and developed a variety of first-to-market, creator-led brand solutions. He has directed strategy and execution for hundreds of cross-platform influencer campaigns for clients including Coca-Cola, Samsung, Honda, Conagra, 20th Century Fox and Taco Bell. Goot has an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management.

Eric John leads the IAB Media Center, a dedicated unit within the IAB whose mission is to simplify the video and audio supply chain, providing best practices and education for brands, agencies, and media companies. Eric drives the center’s efforts in the development of market-making research, industry standards, best practices and buyer/seller terms and conditions. Before joining the IAB, Eric served as VP of Digital Services and Strategy at the Alliance for Audited Media and as Global Director of Publisher / Developer marketing at Nokia, managing the company’s world-wide mobile app developer ecosystem. Prior to Nokia, Eric launched and led advertiser brand engagement solutions for Yahoo!, creating advanced, data-driven video, mobile and interactive campaigns for brands such as Pepsi, L’Oréal, GM, Audio and Nikon. Eric began his career at internet advertising pioneer DoubleClick (Google) where he led product development and marketing within the DART for Publishers (DFP) and DART for Advertisers (DFA) business units where he launched the industry’s first post-click measurement tools. Eric is an alumnus of Miami of Ohio (BA) and Indiana University (MA) and is a graduate of Columbia University’s Product Management Program.

Jo is President of TVSquared, the global leader in TV attribution. At TVSquared, Jo’s focus is on leading the company’s commercial portfolio, including client relations and strategic partnerships across the entire media ecosystem – from brands and agencies to networks and publishers. A creative and passionate leader, Jo is driving TVSquared’s leading position in linear and digital TV measurement and helping to shape the future of TV advertising by bringing transparency and proof of performance to the forefront. As a founding team member, Jo has scaled large enterprise customers and empowered thousands of advertisers to leverage TVSquared’s cross-screen, multi-touch attribution platform.

Jo is a 20-year software veteran with a proven track record of bringing to market innovative products and services across the adtech and fintech industries.

A UK expat, when Jo is not working, she is mom to her 10-year old daughter and training for her next triathlon (she completed the IronMan in 2014!).

Yan is the CEO and Co-founder of TVision, the only company which measures individual viewer attention to both TV content and ads. TVision helps brands, their agencies, TV networks and OTT platforms better understand how people really watch TV so they can make more effective media decisions. Yan founded TVision while earning his MBA at MIT. Prior to TVision, Yan started and managed Yo-ren, a leading digital marketing agency in China and also worked at McKinsey in Tokyo. He has an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Yan grew up in both Japan and China, and currently resides with his family in New York.

Laura Martin received her BA from Stanford and her MBA from Harvard Business School, and she holds a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and a Chartered Market Technician (CMT) designation. Martin began her career at Drexel Burnham Lambert in media investment banking, followed by Capital Research & Management, where she advised $100 billion and managed a $500 million portfolio of media stocks. She moved to Credit Suisse First Boston in 1994 as the senior media analyst, where she was nationally ranked by Institutional Investor in 1999, 2000 and 2001. In 2002, Martin moved to Paris to become EVP of Financial Strategy and Investor Relations for Vivendi Universal. In 2004, she founded Media Metrics, LLC publishing equity research on the largest entertainment, cable and Internet stocks in the U.S., where she was nationally ranked as “Best of the Independent Research Boutiques” by Institutional Investor for many years. In 2009, Martin moved to Needham & Company, LLC, where she publishes research on the largest Internet and Entertainment companies.

Farhad Massoudi is the founder and CEO of Tubi, an ad-supported video on demand (AVOD) service. Massoudi launched Tubi in 2014 with the goal of offering premium television and movies for free, making entertainment accessible to everyone. Tubi was built on the success of adRise, the technology company Massoudi founded in 2010 to help studios distribute and monetize video-on-demand content on connected devices.

Massoudi has successfully bridged the gap between Silicon Valley and Hollywood by building Tubi as a technology-first OTT streaming service. Tubi’s proprietary content personalization engine allows the platform to reach a mass audience with individualized and tailored content. Under Massoudi’s leadership, Tubi has built strong relationships with the top Hollywood studios, networks and production companies, giving Tubi the power to compile one of the largest libraries of film and TV content across all genres. The company currently has partnerships with over 250 content partners including ever major Hollywood studio.

Today, Tubi is the only free streaming service with this expansive of a film and TV library, using proprietary technology to personalize the viewing experience anywhere, anytime. Tubi boasts more monthly titles than Netflix and is consistently ranked as the top rated free streaming app on platforms including iOS and Android. In 2020, Tubi became part of FOX Entertainment after being sold for nearly half a billion dollars.

Prior to Tubi, Massoudi was a VP of Engineering at SocialMedia.com and previously worked as an engineer at Yahoo!.

As the SVP, Chief Strategy Officer, Libby oversees thought leadership and content development for IAB, including the IAB Centers of Excellence. These include The Experience Center, Programmatic and Data Center, Media Center, and research functions. Additionally, Libby is responsible for editorial and content strategies for all IAB events and programming.

Most recently, Libby served as the Global President of MRM Commerce, where she launched their Strategy, Consulting, and Digital Transformation practice. Previous positions include President of The Born Group, where she focused on Digital Marketing, Commerce and Content, as well as Managing Director of iCrossing (part of Hearst). Throughout her career, Libby has partnered with clients such as Nestle, General Motors, Anheuser Busch, American Express, and Geico, among others, to help them achieve their business goals through innovative digital solutions.

Sean Muller is the Founder and CEO of iSpot.tv, the leading TV measurement company trusted by hundreds of top brands, agencies and publishers. 

iSpot helps advertisers measure the brand and business impact of TV and streaming advertising, from concept to airing to conversion. Founded by Sean in 2012, iSpot has transformed the way TV advertising effectiveness is measured, giving advertisers always-on performance insights unified across linear and streaming TV. In 2022, iSpot secured a $325m investment led by Goldman Sachs, and announced the acquisition of 605 in 2023, its fourth acquisition. iSpot was named “Hottest TV Measurement Company” by Adweek in 2022 and Sean has previously won the EY “Entrepreneur of the Year” award.

Sean also serves on the board of TVision, the innovative audience panel technology company iSpot has invested in. Prior to iSpot, Sean founded or served as a key executive in multiple ventures, including Demand Media.  He holds a bachelor’s degree and MBA from the University of Washington and resides in Bellevue, WA with his wife and two boys.

Randall Rothenberg is the Executive Chair of the Interactive Advertising Bureau, the trade association for digital media and marketing in the United States. Among the IAB’s 750 member companies are such major platforms as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Snap; the nation’s most important ad-supported media companies, including The New York Times, Walt Disney Co., NBC Universal, ViacomCBS, Hearst Magazines, Spotify, Verizon Media, Hulu, Warner Media, LinkedIn, and Meredith; incumbent and disruptor brands, including Coca-Cola, Walmart, Procter & Gamble, Hubble Contacts, ThirdLove, General Motors, Johnson & Johnson, and Citigroup; and scores of technology and data companies, among them Mediamath, LiveRamp, Quantcast, and Pubmatic.

With these members and its 47 affiliate associations on every inhabited continent, the IAB and its sister technology-standards group, the IAB Tech Lab, serve as the digital marketing industry’s public policy and lobbying organization, market and consumer research center, training and development base, and hub for the development of standards and best practices.

Mr. Rothenberg joined the IAB in January 2007 as President and Chief Executive Officer, and led the organization until becoming Executive Chair in September 2020. During his tenure, the organization became one of the largest and most influential media and marketing trade bodies in the world, helping to develop technical standards, self-regulation, government regulation, market and consumer research, and professional development programs to protect consumer privacy, foster brand and media revenue growth, improve data security, and reduce supply chain friction in the digital marketing industry.

Prior to his IAB role, Mr. Rothenberg was the Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Director of Intellectual Capital at Booz Allen Hamilton, the international strategy and technology consulting firm, where he oversaw business development, knowledge management, and thought leadership activities, and directed the award-winning quarterly business magazine strategy+business, Strategy+Business Books, www.strategy-business.com, and other electronic and print publications for senior business executives.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Rothenberg spent six years at The New York Times, where he was the technology editor and politics editor of the Sunday magazine, the daily advertising columnist, and a media and marketing reporter. For 10 years, he was a marketing and media columnist for Advertising Age. Mr. Rothenberg has written for a score of major national magazines, among them Esquire, GQ, The Nation, The New York Times Magazine, and New York Magazine. He is the author of four books, including Where the Suckers Moon: An Advertising Story (Alfred A. Knopf, 1994), a critically-acclaimed chronicle of the birth, evolution, and death of a single advertising campaign.

Mr. Rothenberg, an avid nature, urban, and portrait photographer, serves on the Board of Directors of the International Center of Photography and the Board of Overseers of the Columbia Journalism Review. He received an undergraduate degree in Classics from Princeton and lives in New York City.

René Santaella serves as Chief Digital & Streaming Officer for Estrella Media. Santaella was previously EVP, Digital & Streaming Media, and is credited with launching the company’s successful streaming and AVOD platforms and leading the digital transformation of Estrella Media’s content and distribution strategy, operations and new revenue initiatives. Under his guidance, Estrella Media has quickly become a leader in multi-platform, Spanish-language, ad-supported content distribution, streaming over one billion minutes per month across FAST, AVOD, social and audio platforms.

Among the platforms that have launched under his guidance are: the EstrellaTV APP available on Roku, Fire TV, Android TV, Samsung, Vizio, iOS and Android mobile; four Estrella Media curated live streaming T.V. networks – EstrellaTV, Estrella News, CineEstrellaTV and Estrella Games – seen across The Roku Channel, Samsung TV Plus, LG Channels, Vizio WatchFree, Xumo, Xfinity Flex, PlutoTV, Amazon News, Tubi and FuboTV. Estrella Media is a top 20 leader in streaming audio with stations like Que Buena Los Angeles, QB Underground, La Raza and El Norte – all available on TuneIn, the EstrellaTV APP and EstrellaTV.com.  

Prior to joining Estrella Media, Santaella was the Senior Vice President, Head of Ad Sales & Business Operations, at Sony Pictures Television Digital Networks, and built Crackle into a leading free ad-supported streaming network with the Emmy nominated hit, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.  He also led the creation of a premium video network for advertisers targeting a large audience of “connected gamers” that included PlayStation, Funimation, Pluto TV and Crackle. Before Sony, he was Director, Ad Sales Marketing for Disney Interactive, leading digital and cross-platform advertising and integrated marketing solutions across the company with corporate alliance partners. 

Santaella is based in the company’s Burbank headquarters and reports to Peter Markham, CEO of Estrella Media. He holds a Master of Business Administration from the Anderson School of Business at UCLA and a Bachelor’s degree from UCLA. He was also a member of the Puerto Rican National Swim Team and UCLA Men’s Swim Team.

Scott Schiller is the global chief commercial officer of Big Village, a global advertising, technology, and data company. Schiller is a co-founder, long-time board member, and former chairman of the IAB and an adjunct assistant professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business, and an advisor to Cornell’s department of communication. He is often quoted on the intersection of media and technology.