“Digital Advertising Delivered: Transactional, Transparent, Transformative”

David Bookspan has helped hundreds of successful businesses as a founder, investor, and board member. He is Founder and Board Director of Monetate, the global leader in easy-to-use, multichannel personalization software for brands across the globe. He is Founder and Board Director of Dreamit, a Philadelphia-headquartered accelerator and venture capital fund that has helped launch hundreds of companies like Parsely, SeatGeek, Level Up, Houseparty, and Adaptly. David started his entrepreneurial career as the Founder and CEO of MarketSpan, Inc., which lives on today as LexisNexis CourtLink. Prior to MarketSpan, David was a partner with Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen, LLP in Philadelphia. He graduated from Georgetown University Law Center. A sought-after speaker, David is passionate about Philly’s startup community and its talent, quality of life, and culture.

Jana Meron is VP of Programmatic & Data Strategy for Business Insider. She played a pivotal role helping transform Business Insider into an industry pioneer that was early to embrace programmatic across its organization, and she oversees a sophisticated and singular private exchange. Previously, Jana worked at CBS Local Digital, where she was responsible for a majority of their indirect revenue, and an early employee at Google, working with publishers. Regarded as a programmatic thought-leader, Jana is a frequent speaker at industry events

Joe Webster leads a team responsible for business development, content syndication and distribution in support of SmartBrief’s 200+ publications spanning over 15 industries. Previously, Joe was in charge of business development at Storyful, the world’s first social media news agency. Prior to that, he spent more than seven years at The Associated Press, where he led the U.S. digital marketing team and created much of the social media footprint in use by the news cooperative today. He also oversaw the digital marketing of AP’s multimillion-dollar broadcast business. You can find Joe on Twitter @jweb.

Maryann Pulvirenti is an award-winning digital and integrated marketer. In 2015, Maryann joined Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s Digital marketing team where she supports the digital marketing activities for Global Banking and Markets. Prior to joining BofAML,  Maryann worked at agencies such as Doremus, Merkley Newman Harty and Havas to create strong, strategic partnerships with innovative brands such as Volvo, MCI, New Balance, Charles Schwab, Gannett, to name a few.  Her extensive financial category experience includes Bankers Trust, NYSE, Charles Schwab, Equitable and OTCM.

After graduating college in 1993, Jim Rutenberg began working for the New York Daily News as a gossip stringer. He eventually worked his way up to becoming a general assignment reporter. In 1996, he was hired on staff and became a transit beat reporter. He left the Daily News in 1999 to work as a TV reporter for The New York Observer. One year later, he began working for The New York Times, where he was responsible for covering media and local politics. He has also served as City Hall Bureau Chief, and later as chief political correspondent for the Sunday magazine. In January 2016 he was named media columnist.

Mark Temple-Raston has over 20 years of global experience as an innovator and senior executive in information technology.  Mark founded business machine learning company, Decision Machine, in 2015 after 20 years on Wall Street.  Decision Machine’s scientific approach to machine learning ensures unbiased models for Market Science, and stark decision boundaries.  Prior to founding Decision Machine, Mark held global leadership positions at Citigroup in Global Functions, Enterprise Architecture Governance and the Chief Data Office.  Before Citigroup, Mark was an enterprise business architect and analyst in financial services, healthcare, pharma, logistics and aerospace. Mark holds a doctorate in Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics from the University of Cambridge, UK.