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Jonathan Bottomley
Jonathan Bottomley is EVP and Global Chief Marketing Officer of Calvin Klein and, since May 2026, EVP of Group Consumer & Brand Strategy at parent company PVH Corp. Oxford-educated in modern languages, he spent roughly two decades in advertising - most notably eleven years at BBH London, where he rose to joint chief strategy officer and worked on Axe/Lynx, Google, Audi and Samsung - before crossing to the client side as Ralph Lauren's first-ever CMO in 2017 and later CMO of Boll & Branch. Since joining Calvin Klein in June 2022 he has rebuilt the brand's marketing around what he calls an 'entertainment mentality': casting talent with 'cultural velocity' rather than raw follower counts, and pairing archival brand DNA with modern CRM and first-party data. The results have been loud - the January 2024 Jeremy Allen White underwear campaign generated an estimated $74 million in media impact value and roughly 30% year-over-year growth in underwear sales the week it launched, followed by Bad Bunny in 2025 and Dakota Johnson in 2026.
Katherine Beede
Katherine Godfrey Beede is Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of The TJX Companies, the Framingham, Massachusetts off-price retail group behind T.J.Maxx, Marshalls, HomeGoods, Homesense, Sierra, Winners and TK Maxx. She stepped into the top marketing seat in February 2024 after roughly a quarter-century inside the company, having previously run marketing for HomeGoods, then T.J.Maxx, then the combined T.J.Maxx and Marshalls division known internally as MarMaxx. Before TJX she spent a decade on the agency side in Boston and Philadelphia, at shops including Hill Holliday, LevLane, Arnold Worldwide and Holland Mark Martin. Her remit now covers marketing for a roughly $60 billion retailer with more than 5,200 stores across nine countries, built on a business model that sells a shopping trip nobody can fully predict - the so-called treasure hunt. She keeps an unusually low public profile for a Fortune 100 CMO.
Kenny Mitchell
Kenny Mitchell is the senior vice president and chief marketing officer of the Levi's brand at Levi Strauss & Co., where he steers global marketing for one of the world's most recognizable denim labels. Before joining Levi's in 2023, he built and scaled the marketing organization at Snap Inc. and held senior roles at McDonald's U.S., Gatorade and NASCAR. Over a 20-plus year career he has collected multiple Cannes Lions, two Emmy nominations, and a long list of industry honors, and he sits on the board of e.l.f. Beauty.
Martine Reardon
Martine Reardon is an American marketing executive best known for a 32-year career at Macy's, where she rose from the special events department to become Chief Marketing Officer from 2012 to 2016. She led a 1,300-person marketing organization spanning advertising, brand, social, mobile and digital media, and she presided over cultural institutions like the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and the Fourth of July fireworks. Her teams collected Emmys, Clios, Effies and Reggie awards. After Macy's she joined the National Retail Federation as Chief Marketing Officer and later strategic advisor on content and retail strategy, and she has served on corporate and nonprofit boards including Empire Company / Sobeys and the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Illinois.
Nicole Graham
Nicole Hubbard Graham is Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Nike, Inc., leading global brand storytelling across Nike, Jordan and Converse. A Nike veteran of roughly 18 years who rose from director of women's marketing to VP of global categories and consumer direct brand marketing, she left in 2021 to co-found the creative agency Adopt, then returned as CMO in January 2024. She is the architect of Nike's marketing reset, championing an 'athletes over algorithms' philosophy that produced the 2024 Paris Olympics comeback push and the 2025 Super Bowl 'So Win' brand anthem, Nike's first Super Bowl ad in 27 years.
Camphouse
Camphouse is a Stockholm-based enterprise software company that runs an intelligent media operations platform for advertisers and agencies. Formerly known as Mediatool, it centralizes media planning, budget allocation, campaign activation and reporting into a single system of record, layering an AI Co-Pilot on top so data-driven marketers can turn scattered spreadsheets and media plans into structured, end-to-end media intelligence. Its customers include global brands and agency networks such as L'Oreal, Heineken, Dentsu and Jellyfish.
David Jones
David Jones is the founder and CEO of The Brandtech Group, the digital-only marketing group he built to help global brands do their marketing better, faster and cheaper using technology and, increasingly, generative AI. A British executive who once ran the entire Havas network, he left the traditional agency world in 2014, raised hundreds of millions to launch You & Mr Jones in 2015, and rebranded it The Brandtech Group in 2022. Today the company operates in dozens of countries with thousands of employees and positions itself as the world's leading generative-AI marketing company. Jones also co-founded the youth leadership forum One Young World and wrote the book Who Cares Wins.
Martini Media
Martini Media is an independent marketing firm that connects premium and luxury brands with affluent, high-net-worth audiences online. Founded in 2008 and incubated by Venrock, the company builds integrated campaigns that combine bespoke high-impact ad creative, a curated portfolio of 200+ passion-based publishers, and proprietary audience insights across display, mobile, and connected TV. Now operating as a unit of Evolve Media and led by CEO Vincent Krsulich, Martini Media has run more than 1,000 campaigns for over 300 upscale advertisers.
MediaGlobe
MediaGlobe is a Boston-based paid media company that gives online businesses access to enterprise-grade, whitelisted agency ad accounts on TikTok, Facebook and Meta - alongside media-buying tools, consulting and dedicated account management. Founded in 2020 by CEO Jake Vadeboncoeur, the company positions itself as a strategic partner that helps eCommerce, affiliate, lead-gen and info-education brands scale ad spend without the bans, spend caps and throttling common to standard consumer ad accounts.
Screenverse
Screenverse is a New York-based digital out-of-home (DOOH) advertising company that helps mid-tier screen networks - from bar jukeboxes to Walmart health kiosks and luxury elevator panels - tap into programmatic ad demand. Founded in 2020 by DOOH veterans David Weinfeld and Adam Malone, it acts as an outsourced ad-sales and network-management partner, standardizing inventory, running ad operations, and optimizing pricing so media owners can earn revenue from platforms like The Trade Desk and DV360. The company operates one of the most diverse real-world screen networks, surpassing 100,000 digital screens across all 210 U.S. markets, and raised a $10.5M Series A from Volition Capital in April 2024.
Dmitri Lisitski
Dmitri Lisitski is the co-founder and CEO of Influ2, a New York-based B2B advertising platform that pioneered 'person-based marketing' - reaching named decision-makers inside target accounts rather than anonymous audiences. A serial entrepreneur with more than two decades in online marketing and advertising, he began his career buying media for consumer giants like P&G and Coca-Cola, co-founded the IT services company that became GlobalLogic (later acquired by Hitachi for $9.6B), and holds Executive MBAs from Columbia and London Business School. He founded Influ2 in 2016 after concluding that account-based marketing was the right idea served by imprecise technology.
Donnalyn Smith
Donnalyn Smith is the Global CEO of Momentum Worldwide, the experiential and brand-experience agency within the Interpublic Group. She joined Momentum in 1995 and rose through account leadership, managing director and regional roles to President of North America before being named Global CEO in November 2022. Under her leadership Momentum has been named Experiential Agency of the Year by Adweek and Campaign US and Employer of the Year by Digiday. A founding member of the #TimesUpAdvertising movement and a She Runs It Trailblazer Mom of the Year, she is a vocal advocate for diversity, fairness and support systems for working parents in the industry.
Pinterest is a visual discovery and inspiration platform where people find and save ideas for projects and interests, from recipes and home decor to fashion and travel. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, it lets users organize images called Pins into themed collections called boards, and increasingly acts as a shopping-and-discovery engine powered by visual search and AI. Publicly traded on the NYSE, Pinterest reached roughly 631 million monthly active users and $4.2 billion in 2025 revenue, earning nearly all of that from advertising.
Mo Moubayed
Mo Moubayed is the co-founder and co-CEO of Veridooh, a Sydney-born adtech company that built the first independent verification platform for out-of-home advertising. A lawyer turned entrepreneur, he pivoted from launching a screen network to solving the industry's trust gap after agencies kept asking him a single question: how do I know if my ad actually played? He splits his time between London and New York, leading Veridooh's international expansion.
Jamie Bryan
Jamie Bryan is the co-founder and CEO of Sayge, a New York-based platform that democratizes 1:1 professional coaching, taking a perk once reserved for executives and making it available to employees at every level. After 13 years running relationships for global brands at agencies like Ogilvy and Digitas, a single life-changing coaching experience in 2016 sent him in a new direction. He launched Sayge in 2017 under the banner 'Coaching For The Rest Of Us,' and has since built it into a company that has delivered tens of thousands of coaching sessions across dozens of organizations, raising $1.7M in seed funding in 2021.
Kennan Frost
Kennan Frost is the founder and CEO of Icon, a New York-based AI advertising company backed by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund. Previously he solo-founded Skio, a Shopify subscriptions startup that reached $32M ARR and a $105M cash exit. A former top-200 North American League of Legends player who dropped out of college at 19, he is one of the most outspoken solo-founder operators in consumer tech today.
The ARIA Network
The ARIA Network is a media-and-technology company turning ordinary objects, faces, and places into augmented-reality gateways and original "living" NFTs. Through its ARIA Recognition platform, 360-degree AR campaigns, and the Hedera-powered ARIA Exchange, it pairs brands and sports legends with consumers using shoppable, immersive content - already activated in 100+ Brookfield malls and with nearly 1,500 NBA, WNBA and Harlem Globetrotters legends.
Sarah Personette
Sarah Personette is the CEO of Puck, the journalist-owned media company often described as 'Vanity Fair for the Substack era.' She took the top job in January 2024 after a career spent on the revenue side of media's biggest platforms - head of ad sales and Chief Customer Officer at Twitter through its 2022 sale, VP of global business marketing at Facebook, COO of Refinery29, and U.S. president of Universal McCann. At Puck she is betting that journalists are the original influencers, fusing the financial incentives of the creator economy with old-school reporting rigor, and pushing the company toward profitability while expanding into fashion, sports, and live events.
Anastasia Leng
Anastasia Leng is the founder and CEO of CreativeX, a New York technology company that uses AI and computer vision to measure the quality, consistency, and effectiveness of the images and videos brands put into the world. Fortune 500 giants like Unilever, Heineken, Mondelez, Nestle, and Google use it to bring data to the one part of marketing that has always resisted measurement: the creative itself. A lifelong nomad raised across seven countries and a former Google product lead who co-founded the celebrated ecommerce startup Hatch, Leng has built CreativeX into one of the defining companies in the emerging field of creative data, raising about $30 million along the way.
Primer
Primer turns a company's ideal customer profile or account list into high-match B2B audiences and pushes them across consumer ad channels like Meta, Google, LinkedIn and Reddit, then measures real pipeline impact with website de-anonymization and holdout testing. Founded in 2019 and based in San Francisco, Primer resolves identities and runs enrichment waterfalls to deliver 3-5x better match rates than CSV uploads, helping growth and ABM teams prove advertising ROI instead of guessing at it.
Amanda Richman
Amanda Richman is VP of Global Media Sales at Microsoft Advertising, leading a 700+ person omnichannel sales team from New York. A 30-year veteran of media and advertising, she has run agencies including Wavemaker US and Mindshare North America, winning Adweek's U.S. Media Agency of the Year at Wavemaker in 2020. She joined Microsoft in March 2024 to help brands navigate the convergence of generative AI, search, and connected TV advertising.
Danielle McMeekin
Danielle McMeekin is Vice President and Head of Global Media Sales (also titled Head of Global Performance Sales) at Microsoft Advertising, where she leads the company's worldwide media and performance sales strategy. Based in Orlando, Florida, she brings over two decades of experience in digital advertising, having risen through sales leadership roles at Yahoo! before joining Microsoft. A recognized voice on the future of search and AI-powered advertising, she co-authors thought leadership on conversational search, multimodal discovery, and generative AI's transformation of performance marketing. She received Microsoft Advertising's Client Obsession FY25 Award for her work building powerful partnerships with clients and partners.
Danielle Sadick
Danielle Sadick is an Area Vice President of Strategic Enterprise - Digital Media at Adobe, based in New York City. She leads enterprise-level digital media sales strategy, working with some of the world's largest organizations to adopt Adobe's creative and digital media solutions. Her career spans over a decade in digital advertising and media, progressing from assistant media planner at Neo@Ogilvy through programmatic trading roles before joining Adobe, where she has steadily advanced from account executive to vice president. She specializes in connecting enterprise clients with Adobe's expansive creative and marketing technology ecosystem.
Imma Calvo
Imma Calvo is VP of Sales, US Commerce at Google Customer Solutions, leading commerce innovation for brands across the Americas. Originally from Barcelona, she spent a decade in California before relocating to New York and has worked at Google since 2007 across EMEA and US markets in roles spanning retail, apps, and agency. A passionate mentor to startups and women in tech, she speaks at major industry conferences and brings fluency in Spanish, Catalan, and the language of disruption.
Jackie Walsh
Jackie Walsh is a Senior Vice President of Media at Microsoft, based in Boston, Massachusetts. Operating within one of the world's largest technology companies - with $281 billion in annual revenue and 228,000 employees - she leads at the intersection of enterprise technology and media. Her role places her inside Microsoft's vast ecosystem spanning cloud infrastructure, AI services, productivity tools, and advertising platforms including Microsoft Advertising, MSN, and Xbox media properties.
Jeffrey Whipps
Jeffrey Whipps is Vice President of Marketing at Google, where he leads the company's global brand studio and holds global responsibility for strategic brand and reputation topics spanning sustainability, digital wellbeing, crisis response, and diversity and inclusion. Before Google, he spent seven years at Apple as Director of Worldwide Advertising, contributing to iconic campaigns including the iPod Silhouettes and Mac vs. PC series. His career spans over two decades at the intersection of technology and storytelling, with earlier roles at Netscape, Shutterfly, Sun Microsystems, and McCann Worldgroup.
Jennifer Hartford
Jennifer Hartford is a senior marketing executive at Amazon Web Services, currently serving as VP of Events, Advertising, and Strategic Partnerships. With over a decade at AWS, she has led some of the biggest moments in enterprise tech — including serving as Event Lead for AWS re:Invent 2014 and 2015, and overseeing marquee partnerships such as the AWS-Formula 1 collaboration. Based in Bend, Oregon, she has grown from event marketing manager to one of AWS's top integrated marketing leaders, shaping how the world's largest cloud platform shows up at scale.
Jonathan Johnsongriffin
Jonathan Johnsongriffin is VP of Global Brand & Creative at Google, where he leads the Global Brand Studio's creative strategy. A veteran of Nike's most iconic campaigns - including 'You Can't Stop Us' and 'Just Do It Crazy Dreams' - he spent nearly five years shaping Nike's global brand narrative before joining Google in January 2023. Co-founder of the Serena Williams Design Crew program, jury member at Cannes Lions 2023 and 2024, and board trustee at Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, Johnsongriffin blends industrial design roots with cultural storytelling at the intersection of sport, technology, and purpose.
Justin Merickel
Justin Merickel is a Vice President of Product Management and Product Marketing for the Analytics Portfolio at Adobe, where he oversees Customer Journey Analytics, Adobe Analytics, and Mix Modeler. With over two decades of experience in digital marketing and data analytics, he has shaped how enterprise brands measure, understand, and act on customer behavior - from his early days at McCann Erickson through senior leadership at Yahoo!, Efficient Frontier (acquired by Adobe), and ultimately Adobe itself, where he has driven major product and partnership initiatives across the Experience Cloud.
Lynne Kjolso
Lynne Kjolso is VP of Global Partner and Retail Media at Microsoft Advertising, where she leads the company's retail media strategy and global partner ecosystem. A philosophy PhD turned digital advertising executive, she has spent over 15 years at Microsoft shaping search, retail, and commerce media. Named to Ad Age's Tech Power List 2024 and The List 2025, she is a leading voice on retail media standardization, gaming as an advertising frontier, and the intersection of AI and commerce.