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Dick Lippin and the business of paying attention
Before he built an entertainment PR firm, Dick Lippin counted people entering a college library. Four decades into The Lippin Group, he is still interested in what makes somebody stop, listen and care.
Dick Lippin and the business of paying attention
Before he built an entertainment PR firm, Dick Lippin counted people entering a college library. Four decades into The Lippin Group, he is still interested in what makes somebody stop, listen and care.
Guy Edri and the strange business of making TV simple
Guy Edri helped build VIDAA by inviting other companies onto the screen. Now, as the business becomes V, he wants the television industry to see the household the way viewers do.
Andrea Oliveri and the Value of Knowing Whom to Call
When magazine work became a less certain future, Andrea Oliveri took her editorial judgment elsewhere. At Special Projects, the company she co-founded with Nicole Vecchiarelli, choosing the right people became a business of its own.
Oleg Tumanov and the price of pressing play
He left banking to build Ivi in a market accustomed to free films. The harder part was learning what would make people pay - and when to start composing something else.
Steve Miron and the business of keeping people connected
Before Steve Miron led Bright House Networks, he sold cable door-to-door and worked on construction crews. His career traces a family business through customer service, consolidation and the changing boundaries of American media.
William Utomo and the business of belonging
A call from his brother brought William Utomo back to Indonesia. Twelve years later, the IDN co-founder is still working on the same question: what does a younger generation need next?
Ryan Serhant and the art of making a listing impossible to ignore
A failed acting plan sent him into New York real estate in 2008. Now his brokerage treats a camera, a classroom and a sales desk as parts of the same business.
The Quiet Buyout Shop That Bets on the Pipes, Towers, and Billboards Nobody Notices
For almost 30 years, a small team in Lower Manhattan has quietly built and sold the unglamorous infrastructure of American communications and media - and made a business out of the boring.
RRE Ventures Has Been Playing the Long Game Since 1994 - and It Shows
The New York firm wrote early checks into Palantir, Datadog and Venmo, then stayed in the boardroom for the parts that actually get hard.
The Storyteller Behind the Storytellers
For 30 years he has sold the sellers - shaping how the world's biggest ad networks talk about themselves. Now he runs communications and marketing for dentsu, a 68,000-person business spread across the globe.
Ad Age Keeps Score on the People Who Sell You Everything
For nearly a century a Chicago-born trade paper has counted the ad industry's biggest spenders and sharpest talent. Its data desk is the reason Madison Avenue reads it before breakfast.
Angela Tribelli
Angela Tribelli built a career translating complicated products into useful reasons to care. Now the veteran of books, streaming and financial media is taking on a harder brief: making home equity legible as a retirement tool.
Welcome to the Jungle
Welcome to the Jungle is a Paris-founded employer-branding and job-search platform that turns static job listings into immersive, media-rich company profiles - videos, photography and editorial content that show what it is really like to work somewhere. Launched in 2015 by Jérémy Clédat and Bertrand Uzeel, it pairs a consumer job-search destination drawing 3.5 million monthly visitors with a B2B SaaS suite used by 5,500+ companies to build their employer brand and manage candidates. After acquiring UK job-search app Otta in 2024, it operates across France, Europe and the United States.
The AI Content Consultant
Every platform shift mints a new profession. SAP gave us the SAP consultant. The mobile and search era gave us the certified digital marketer. YesPress argues the AI era is minting its own role - the AI Content Consultant - and is opening a training program to build the first cohort. The pitch: learn Answer Engine Optimization, help companies become the answer that ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews cite, and get in early on a job title that barely exists yet.
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.
Peter Bittenbender
Peter Bittenbender is co-founder and CEO of Mass Appeal, the New York-based hip-hop media, label, and creative agency he relaunched in 2013 with Nas and the late Sacha Jenkins. Before Mass Appeal he co-founded Decon, the independent label and creative shop that seeded the modern hybrid label-agency model. He spent 2023 leading Hip Hop 50, then 2025's 'Legend Has It' rollout of seven classic-artist albums, and won the 2022 Billboard Indie Power Players nod along the way.
Ray Dargham
Ray Dargham is the co-founder and CEO of Step, the Dubai-born media and events company behind the Step Conference, a startup and tech festival that grew from about 100 people in a co-working space in 2012 into an 8,000-plus attendee gathering that now travels between Dubai, Riyadh and San Francisco. He also runs the digital publishers StepFeed and YallaFeed, founded the brand-tech shop Spiderfrogs, and hosts the Maté podcast for MENA founders. Forbes put him on its 30 Under 30 cover in 2018.
Jimmy McCloud
Jimmy McCloud is the Founder & CEO of DISTINCT Technologies, a live data intelligence platform that helps global brands capture and act on consumer data at live events - concerts, sports activations, fan zones, and brand experiences. With a career spanning MLB Advanced Media (where the team built what became Disney+), Entercom/Audacy (as EVP of National Business Development), and Division I baseball at Holy Cross, McCloud brings a rare combination of sports media pedigree and enterprise sales acumen to solving one of marketing's oldest problems: making live brand moments measurable. DISTINCT raised a $3.5M seed round in June 2024 led by York IE.
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.
Chronicle Studios
Chronicle Studios is an AI-driven entertainment company building the growth platform for global franchises. It reverses the traditional Hollywood development model - instead of betting on a script and hoping audiences show up, its agentic AI platform finds emerging creators and IP, tests audience demand early, and automates audience discovery, distribution and monetization across social platforms. Founded in 2025 by tech entrepreneur Aaron Sisto and former DreamWorks Animation president Chris deFaria, the company raised an oversubscribed $11.6M seed round to back creators across animation, gaming, music, comedy and podcasts.
Adrienne Becker
Adrienne Becker is the CEO and co-founder of Level Forward, the public-benefit entertainment studio she launched in 2018 with filmmaker Abigail Disney. From a Los Angeles base, she finances and produces films and stage work that pair compelling stories with real-world advocacy - a slate that has earned a combined 37 Tony nominations (Jagged Little Pill, Oklahoma!, Slave Play, What the Constitution Means to Me, Suffs) and Oscar-recognized films (The Assistant, Red White and Blue). A former CEO of DailyCandy and SVP at Nielsen and IAC who got her start on Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign, Becker treats entertainment as a tool for economic and cultural change.
Brian Nam
Brian Nam is the co-founder and CEO of DIVE Studios, a Gen Z media company born from K-pop and built for global fandoms. A former Division I soccer recruit and finance-track Columbia grad, he walked away from an elite private equity offer to build a podcast network with his brother, the K-pop star Eric Nam. DIVE has grown into a multi-platform media company spanning Seoul and Los Angeles, with hit shows like The Daebak Show, hundreds of millions of views, and a wellness app, Mindset. He is a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree.
Hanz Panther
Hanz Panther is listed as Co-Founder and CEO of NewCo, a business-event production company built around an 'inside-out' festival format that swaps the convention-hall stage for the open doors of working companies. Operating at the intersection of media, publishing, and live events, NewCo turns cities into temporary campuses where the public walks into real offices instead of watching keynotes. Panther's public footprint is thin, but the role places him inside one of the more distinctive experiments in how modern business gatherings are produced.
Rizzle
Rizzle is an AI video creation, distribution, and monetization platform that turns written content - articles, blogs, newsletters and scripts - into polished, brand-safe videos in minutes. Built for publishers, media companies and content creators, it pairs generative AI drafting with human editorial refinement and pre-licensed assets from Getty Images, ElevenLabs and Soundstripe, then syndicates the finished videos across platforms like MSN, Yahoo and NewsBreak. Founded in 2019 by Vidya Narayanan and Lakshminath Dondeti, Rizzle began as a consumer short-video social app that grew to tens of millions of users before pivoting to an enterprise SaaS model for video-first content at scale.
Carla Faraguna
Carla Faraguna is the Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer at Substack, the San Francisco newsletter and media platform. She joined in 2024 after nearly seven years running operations and people functions at Golden (Recursion Inc), the knowledge-graph startup. Her path runs through HR and employee programs at Fandom (Wikia), cultural exchange work with the Asia Society and the Japan Exchange and Teaching Program, and a stretch of self-directed travel and volunteering across a dozen countries. She holds a master's in East Asia Studies from Stanford and a political science degree from Stony Brook.
David Jaxon
David Jaxon writes the Creator Economy Report, a newsletter covering the business of creators and the media industry built around them. Beyond the newsletter and its stated focus on the creator economy and media, no further details about Jaxon could be independently verified through public sources.
Josh Barro
Josh Barro is an American journalist who left legacy media to run Very Serious, a subscription newsletter and podcast about politics, business, economics, and culture. A former Republican turned Democrat, ex-host of KCRW's Left, Right & Center and onetime New York Times and Business Insider columnist, he now writes a weekly mailbag called the Mayonnaise Clinic and co-hosts the litigation podcast Serious Trouble with attorney Ken White.
Mike Solana
Mike Solana is the founder and editor-in-chief of Pirate Wires, the technology, politics, and culture publication that became required reading inside Silicon Valley's investor class. He doubles as Chief Marketing Officer and Vice President at Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, where he runs the firm's creative output, including the Anatomy of Next podcast and the Hereticon conference for ideas that get exiled from polite conversation. The Atlantic dubbed him 'the most opinionated man in America.' Operating from Miami, he writes and broadcasts a contrarian, often combative take on tech, the press, and California governance.
Allison Romano
Allison Romano is Vice President of Xbox Digital Marketing and Media at Microsoft, based in New York. With over 15 years leading high-impact marketing and product teams across Microsoft, Google, American Express, and CLEAR, she has shaped how some of the world's biggest brands reach digital audiences. At Xbox, she oversees digital marketing and media strategy for one of the most recognized gaming brands on the planet, blending B2B and B2C expertise to drive growth at scale.