mobile-advertising
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Jonathan Frohlinger
Jonathan Frohlinger is the founder and CEO of Big Happy, a New York ad tech company that builds cinematic, story-driven 3D advertising across mobile and digital out-of-home (DOOH) screens. After years on the media-buying side spending over $100M and selling for firms like Verve, Starcom and Conde Nast, he started Big Happy in 2019 on a simple conviction: creative is a performance lever, not decoration. The company centralizes 3D creative production, media activation, targeting and measurement, runs on 1M+ DOOH screens and 7,000+ mobile publishers, and reports brand-recall and engagement lifts well above industry norms. Big Happy raised a $2.5M strategic round from Infolinks in 2024, was named Best Overall Mobile Marketing Company in the 2025 MarTech Breakthrough Awards, and in 2026 launched dynamic creative optimization for 3D DOOH and formed a board of advisors to scale creative-led omnichannel advertising.
Tom Laband
Tom Laband is the co-founder and CEO of Adsquare, a Berlin-born location-intelligence company he started in 2012 with Sebastian Doerfel and Fritz Richter. Adsquare runs a neutral data exchange that turns consented location signals into audience data for programmatic advertising, and Laband has spent more than a decade arguing that location is a durable, privacy-compliant alternative to the crumbling world of online identifiers. A University of Mannheim graduate who cut his teeth in early European mobile advertising at YOC and Sevenval, he now splits his attention between the company's Berlin engineering base and its commercial push in New York.
Jim Payne
Jim Payne is the co-founder and CEO of CloudX, an AI-native mobile advertising platform that treats ad monetization like code and hands the busywork to autonomous agents. An MIT-trained computer scientist and former Google product manager, he built MoPub (sold to Twitter in 2013) and MAX (acquired by AppLovin), two products that shaped how apps make money. After years investing through his firm Breakpoint Capital, he returned to building in 2025, launching CloudX with a $30M Series A led by Addition to rewire the mobile ad stack for the AI era.
David Liebler
David Liebler is a New York-based media and adtech operator who currently leads automotive strategic partnerships at Locala (formerly S4M / Ask Locala), a Paris-headquartered drive-to-store advertising platform. He is best known as the founder and publisher of COED Media Group, the college-life brand he launched as a print magazine in 2004 and grew into a national digital property. Over a 20-plus-year career he has founded companies, built sales organizations, and worked across digital media, mobile, and automotive marketing, later earning an MBA from Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management.
Matthew Goldhill
Matthew Goldhill is the founder and CEO of Picnic, a London-born adtech company that pioneered 'social display' advertising - Stories, Posts and Carousels dropped mid-article on Google AMP pages, a format that didn't exist before he built it. He left AppNexus at 25 to start the company, bootstrapped it for years, delivered 600+ campaigns for brands like EE, L'Oreal and Amazon, then raised £1m in 2023 and moved to New York to crack the US market. He builds user-first, low-carbon ad products and is unusually candid about the near-disasters along the way.
Nels Stromborg
Nels Stromborg is a VP Transformational Leader for Media and Entertainment at Adobe, based in Chicago, with 20+ years of digital media sales experience. Known for scaling sales organizations and consistently outperforming targets - hitting 300% of goal in FY2020 and winning Adobe's North American and Media & Entertainment Seller of the Year award - he has built a career arc from floor trader at the Chicago Board Options Exchange to driving Adobe's most strategic entertainment partnerships. He has held senior sales leadership roles at Undertone, Retale, and AOL before joining Adobe.
Abhay Singhal
Abhay Singhal co-founded InMobi in 2007 from a shared Mumbai apartment with three IIT Kanpur classmates, and helped build it into India's first unicorn and the world's largest independent mobile advertising platform - reaching 1.3 billion people across 190+ countries. As CEO of InMobi Advertising, he now leads a platform serving 80 billion daily impressions, while InMobi prepares for a 2026 IPO targeting a $4-5 billion valuation. An angel investor in Razorpay, Bright Money, and Goldcast, Singhal is known for betting on mobile-first futures before anyone else did.
Ikkjin Ahn
Ikkjin Ahn is the co-founder and CEO of Moloco, the machine learning-powered advertising platform he built from scratch after spotting a gap at Google: 90% of apps in the Play Store weren't making money. Armed with insights from building YouTube's monetization engine, he launched Moloco in 2013 to democratize access to the kind of AI that only tech giants could afford. Thirteen years later, the company is a $1.5B+ unicorn with 700+ employees across 12 offices, over $200M in annual revenue, and profitable for five consecutive years - a rare combination in Silicon Valley. As of early 2026, Moloco is weighing an IPO.
Susan Kuo
Susan Kuo is the Co-Founder and COO of Singular, a marketing intelligence platform headquartered in Palo Alto, California that unifies marketing analytics and attribution for the world's top performance marketers. A veteran of mobile ad tech and gaming, she previously built go-to-market strategy from the ground up as SVP of Sales & Business Development at Onavo (acquired by Facebook in 2013), and held senior roles at InMobi, Booyah, Gaia Online, and Electronic Arts. Since co-founding Singular in 2014 alongside Gadi Eliashiv and Eran Friedman, she has led global partnerships and business development while also championing diversity in tech through THRIVE, a community platform she founded to connect and empower women in growth marketing.
Herman Yang
Herman Yang is the CEO and co-founder of Upscale AI, an AI-native platform that lets e-commerce brands create, run, and optimize performance TV ads on streaming channels. A Stanford CS grad with an MBA from Harvard Business School, Yang spent over a decade reshaping mobile advertising at AdMob (acquired by Google) and MoPub (acquired by Twitter, then AppLovin), before stints at Facet Data, Chatgrid, and Moloco. In May 2025, he emerged from stealth with $5.5M in seed funding - backed by Nvidia Ventures, M12, Eniac, and others - to democratize what was once a $100K-minimum medium: streaming TV ads, rebuilt from scratch for performance marketers.