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Diego Prusky and the question behind the website
A music label asked for a website. Diego Prusky found a larger problem: how to reach people when the rules keep changing. From Uruguay to Miami, the InPulse founder has kept asking before answering.
Michael Nyman and the art of starting over
After helping build PMK-BNC, Michael Nyman left to try a different arrangement: specialist agencies with reasons to work together. His second act began with a family milestone and became Acceleration Community of Companies.
Matt Manning and the business of belonging
From international marketing to the leadership of MKTG, Matt Manning has built a career around the distance between buying attention and earning a place in a fan’s life.
Nita Song and the advantage of knowing people
She left IW Group, hired it twice, and came back to help change its business. Nita Song’s career makes a case for cultural knowledge that survives every change of platform.
Tom Cunha and the audience before the audience
Before a film has an opening weekend, it has a conversation. Brigade co-founder Tom Cunha has built a career in the space between a story and the people who might make it their own.
Matt Upshaw and the Long Way to Owning the Place
He arrived at Serino Coyne as an assistant account executive with an engineering education and a Navy background. Nineteen years later, Matt Upshaw bought the agency - and kept the people who had helped him build his career.
Maeve Hagen and the long game of becoming CEO
Before she led Taylor, Maeve Hagen defended a college field hockey goal and joined the agency as an intern. Her route to the top has been a study in staying, learning and making room for other people.
Brian Walker Is Building the Audience Before the Credits Roll
The Picture Motion CEO has spent his career closing the distance between a powerful story and the people who can carry it into the world. His method begins early, with community, partnership, and a deceptively practical question: who needs to see this?
Steph Lund Builds Agencies Around What Fans Already Love
The New York agency executive has spent two decades turning music, sport and entertainment fandom into an operating system for growth. Her second act with a trusted leadership trio suggests the real product is not attention - it is specialist judgment.
Wanda Gierhart Turned the Movie Theater Into a Customer Journey
The Cinemark executive brought a retailer's eye to the multiplex. Her playbook is built on curiosity, loyalty, frictionless details and the stubborn belief that a night at the movies should feel like an occasion.
Alden Reiman Bet His Career on the Brand Side of Fame
After learning the machinery of talent at CAA and the NFL, Alden Reiman chose a less glamorous seat at the table: representing what brands actually need. An acquisition, a new firm, and a decade of creator-economy work followed.
Sara Moore Is Marketing the Part of Moviegoing You Cannot Stream
From a century-old football trophy to a bag of popcorn, Sara Moore has spent her career turning familiar rituals into reasons to gather. At Cineplex, her brief is bigger than selling tickets: make leaving the sofa feel worth it.
Matthew Pantoja
Matthew Pantoja is the Chief Brand Officer of Alpha Industries, the outerwear label famous for the MA-1 bomber and M-65 field jacket. Over two decades he has moved through New Era, Reebok, Palladium Boots and Triple 5 Soul, building a career on turning heritage product and youth culture into commercial energy. Since joining Alpha in 2016, he has helped steer the 60-year-old military supplier from surplus-store staple to global lifestyle brand, overseeing product, marketing and brand experiences across every region and channel.
Stephanie Johnson
Stephanie Johnson is Vice President of Global Consumer Marketing at NVIDIA, leading go-to-market strategy for GeForce NOW, NVIDIA Studio, and SHIELD. With over two decades in entertainment and gaming marketing - from Take2 Interactive to Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment - she joined NVIDIA around 2018 and has been instrumental in scaling GeForce NOW from beta to more than 30 million users. Recognized by the Silicon Valley YWCA in 2024 for outstanding professional achievements, Johnson operates at the intersection of gaming, creative tools, and generative AI, shaping how millions of consumers experience NVIDIA's products.