John Gardner

PubMatic (Nasdaq: PUBM) is an independent technology company maximizing customer value by delivering digital advertising’s supply chain of the future. PubMatic’s sell-side platform empowers the world’s leading digital content creators across the open internet to control access to their inventory and increase monetization by enabling marketers to drive return on investment and reach addressable audiences across ad formats and devices. Since 2006, our infrastructure-driven approach has allowed for the efficient processing and utilization of data in real time. By delivering scalable and flexible programmatic innovation, we improve outcomes for our customers while championing a vibrant and transparent digital advertising supply chain.

Lemnisk is the world’s first real-time marketing automation built on an intelligent & secure Customer Data Platform orchestrating 1-to-1 personalization and cross-channel customer journeys at scale that increases conversions, retention & growth for enterprises.

Adknowledge is a digital advertising technology company, specializing in helping demanding clients get a great ROI from their digital media spending, in a brand safe way, at scale. Our ROI-obsessed approach to advertising is shaped by our engineering and data-led methodology, and by more than a decade of experience working closely with high-performance advertisers in eCommerce, lead generation and social gaming. We run media campaigns in the fastest growing, highest volume, most complex areas of digital advertising, including video advertising via YouTube, native and Facebook; mobile app distribution; social media advertising; email and audience development. Key facts about Adknowledge: *We work with over half of the Fortune 500 advertisers in the world, including Samsung, VW and Amazon. *We precision-target an audience of more than 2 billion people around the world. *Our team speaks 27 languages and services clients in 50 countries. *Much of our business is won by winning "bake-offs"​ and our annual customer retention is 92%. *Half of our 300 global employees are in engineering or other technical positions. The Adknowledge motto is “Demand More From Digital.” We're data junkies and have a strong culture of using data in the smartest ways possible, offering our clients the best ROI at scale, great insights and continuous improvement. We work hard and play hard, which is why Glassdoor named us one of the best places to work for 2014. The Adknowledge corporate headquarters are in Kansas City, Missouri. The company also has U.S. offices in New York, Los Angeles, and Fort Myers, plus international teams in Toronto, London, Singapore and São Paulo.

RetailNext is a global leader in retail analytics for physical stores. Our real-time analytics tools help retailers and manufacturers collect, analyze, and visualize in-store data. Our patent-pending solution uses the latest video analytics, Wi-Fi detection, on-shelf sensors, and data from point-of-sale systems and other sources to provide retailers with automatic insights about how customers interact with their stores. The RetailNext platform is highly scalable and can easily integrate with promotional calendars, staffing systems, and even weather services to analyze how internal and external factors impact customer shopping patterns. This allows retailers to identify growth opportunities, make changes, and measure success. RetailNext collects data from nearly 100,000 sensors in retail stores to measure more than one billion shopping trips per year. This data is then analyzed to generate trillions of data points annually. Headquartered in Campbell, CA, RetailNext is a globally recognized brand that operates in over 40 countries.

Rocket Fuel is now a part of Sizmek. Sizmek is the largest independent buy-side advertising platform that creates impressions that inspire. In the digital world, creating impressions that inspire is vital to building meaningful, long-lasting relationships with your customers. Sizmek provides powerful, integrated solutions that enable data, creative, and media to work together for optimal campaign performance across the entire customer journey. Our AI-driven decisioning engine can identify robust insights within data across the five key dimensions of predictive marketing—campaigns, consumers, context, creative, and cost. We bring all the elements of our clients’ media plans together in one place to gain better understanding for more meaningful relationships, make every moment of interaction matter, and drive more value across the entire plan. Sizmek operates its platform in more than 70 countries, with local offices in many countries providing award-winning service throughout the Americas, EMEA, and APAC, and connecting more than 20,000 advertisers and 3,600 agencies to audiences around the world

Cloudmark is a trusted leader in intelligent threat protection against known and future attacks, safeguarding 12 percent of the world’s inboxes from wide-scale and targeted email threats. With more than a decade of experience protecting the world’s largest messaging environments, only Cloudmark combines global threat intelligence from a billion subscribers with local behavioral context tracking to deliver instant and predictive defense against data theft and security breaches that result in financial loss and damage to brand and reputation. Cloudmark protects more than 120 tier-one service providers and tens of thousands of enterprises, including, Verizon, Swisscom, Comcast, Cox and NTT.

Zvents is your local guide to entertainment. We help more than 16 million monthly users find fun and interesting things to do in their local area, and help thousands of event advertisers increase attendance at their events. Our network of locally branded entertainment guides reaches the largest audience of people actively looking for things to do. More than 15,000 advertisers work with Zvents every month to promote a wide range of local events and activities, including live music, performing arts, sporting events and community activities.

1809 Capital is a financial return focused investment platform leveraging the Miami alumni network. Instrumental in achieving this objective is the ability to engage a motivated alumni network providing access to high quality growth stage deal flow. Fund strategy is executed by experienced venture fund managers and leverages alumni active as venture industry entrepreneurs, investors, board directors, and C-level management. 1809s members are afforded the opportunity to network with experienced executives in the innovation ecosystem and engage in collaboration with Miami’s Altman School of Entrepreneurship (Nasdaq 2020 Center of Entrepreneurial Excellence, Princeton Review Top 10 Entrepreneurship Program).

Vesta Ventures is a venture capital fund investing in the proptech sector with a focus on platforms at the intersection of residential real estate and technology.

PubMatic (Nasdaq: PUBM) is an independent technology company maximizing customer value by delivering digital advertising’s supply chain of the future. PubMatic’s sell-side platform empowers the world’s leading digital content creators across the open internet to control access to their inventory and increase monetization by enabling marketers to drive return on investment and reach addressable audiences across ad formats and devices. Since 2006, our infrastructure-driven approach has allowed for the efficient processing and utilization of data in real time. By delivering scalable and flexible programmatic innovation, we improve outcomes for our customers while championing a vibrant and transparent digital advertising supply chain.

Lemnisk is the world’s first real-time marketing automation built on an intelligent & secure Customer Data Platform orchestrating 1-to-1 personalization and cross-channel customer journeys at scale that increases conversions, retention & growth for enterprises.

Adknowledge is a digital advertising technology company, specializing in helping demanding clients get a great ROI from their digital media spending, in a brand safe way, at scale. Our ROI-obsessed approach to advertising is shaped by our engineering and data-led methodology, and by more than a decade of experience working closely with high-performance advertisers in eCommerce, lead generation and social gaming. We run media campaigns in the fastest growing, highest volume, most complex areas of digital advertising, including video advertising via YouTube, native and Facebook; mobile app distribution; social media advertising; email and audience development. Key facts about Adknowledge: *We work with over half of the Fortune 500 advertisers in the world, including Samsung, VW and Amazon. *We precision-target an audience of more than 2 billion people around the world. *Our team speaks 27 languages and services clients in 50 countries. *Much of our business is won by winning "bake-offs"​ and our annual customer retention is 92%. *Half of our 300 global employees are in engineering or other technical positions. The Adknowledge motto is “Demand More From Digital.” We're data junkies and have a strong culture of using data in the smartest ways possible, offering our clients the best ROI at scale, great insights and continuous improvement. We work hard and play hard, which is why Glassdoor named us one of the best places to work for 2014. The Adknowledge corporate headquarters are in Kansas City, Missouri. The company also has U.S. offices in New York, Los Angeles, and Fort Myers, plus international teams in Toronto, London, Singapore and São Paulo.