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Steve Fischer and the Business of Knowing Less
At DuckDuckGo, an engineering-trained dealmaker is making a commercial wager with unusual restraint: that a search business can grow without keeping a dossier on everyone who uses it.
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.
Kya Sainsbury-Carter
Kya Sainsbury-Carter spent over 20 years at Microsoft, most recently as Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Advertising, where she led a global ads business generating more than $18 billion in annual gross revenue. She oversaw the division's transformation through AI-powered and agentic advertising, expanded retail media, and enterprise partnerships before departing in May 2026 - with LinkedIn's Matt Derella named to succeed her.
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.
Scott Howe
Scott Howe is the Chief Executive Officer of LiveRamp, the San Francisco-based data collaboration platform that helps the world's largest brands stitch together customer signal across walled gardens, clean rooms, and a cookieless web. He took the job in October 2018 after seven years running Acxiom, LiveRamp's former parent, and before that ran Microsoft's multi-billion-dollar advertising business and helped build Avenue A | Razorfish at aQuantive.
Wendy MacGregor
Wendy MacGregor is Vice President of Global Media & AdTech Solutions at Microsoft Advertising, leading the company's audience and ad-technology strategy with a self-described abundance mindset borrowed from CEO Satya Nadella's 'learn-it-all' playbook. She arrived at Microsoft after a long climb through the upper ranks of digital advertising - Google, Turn, AOL - and now spends her days arguing that Copilot is an empowerment tool, not a replacement.