Mike Jacobs

Consortium Brand Partners is a fund manager built by operators and business leaders with years of experience in managing and investing in global brands and diverse teams across various consumer sectors. While technology and commerce have evolved, the historical relationship between brands and retailers has not. The Consortium is reinventing the paradigm, and for the first time ever, creating a global solution empowering retailers and strategics to control their own destiny.

New York Angels is a member-led organization committed to finding, funding and mentoring great young companies from pitch through successful exit. Our 120+ members are entrepreneurs, CEOs, venture capitalists and business leaders who have founded, funded and built world-class companies. We come from a wide array of industry backgrounds and together create an extensive network of entrepreneurial support. We mentor and coach the entrepreneurs in whom we invest, serve on their boards, provide contacts and assist with team building, strategic planning and fundraising. The mission of New York Angels is to foster an engaged and smart New York City angel investment environment in an effort to enhance the opportunities for entrepreneurs to be financed and succeed through exit. We provide opportunities for our members to obtain outstanding financial returns by investing in early-stage companies and accelerating them to market leadership. We lead and participate in investments ranging from $100,000–$2,000,000, and have a large network of angel groups and venture capital firms with whom we syndicate to do rounds up to $3 million. New York Angels has been the leading seed investment organization in NYC since 2004, with members investing over $112 million into more than 270 exciting startup companies. Through their participation in New York Angels, members were the first investors in such startups as Pinterest and Comixology, and portfolio companies have been acquired by Google, Intel, CBS, Living Social and others.

We are the Marketing + Media Alliance (MMA)— the global industry body for Chief Marketing Officers and their teams, dedicated to advancing marketers’ ability to create value. We unite the world’s leading CMOs to tackle the biggest challenges and opportunities shaping the future of marketing, brands, and business. With 800+ corporate members representing hundreds of thousands of marketers, MMA drives collaboration across marketing’s full ecosystem — brands, media companies, platforms, MarTech, AdTech, consultancies, and agencies — to make marketing more impactful, accountable, and predictive. For CMOs and by CMOs. MMA is an alliance that turns research & science into results. Through our proprietary Think Tanks and Labs, we create groundbreaking, evidence-based models that transform how marketing drives growth and enterprise value. Our four global Think Tanks include: • MATT: Measurement & Attribution • MOSTT: Marketing Organization Strategy • ALTT: AI Leadership • DATT: Data & Customer Experience MMA’s multi-year, multi-million-dollar research labs have redefined marketing science — from quantifying long-term brand contribution to creating the world’s first financial model linking marketing investment directly to company valuation. Marketers applying MMA frameworks have seen enterprise value gains of more than +10%. Our membership includes leading brands such as AT&T, Bank of America, Campbell’s, CVS Health, Ford, General Motors, Google, McDonald’s, Meta, Samsung, Target, The Walt Disney Company, Uber, Unilever, Visa, Walmart, Yahoo, and others. We share, discuss, and scale what works through world-class experiences — including POSSIBLE in Miami, the CMO & CEO Summit (NPS of 86%), and 60+ events globally. MMA has operations in 16 countries in APAC, Europe, MEA, LATAM, and North America. Founded in 03 as the Mobile Marketing Association, MMA expanded its mission in 18 and formally became MMA Global, Inc. in 22. Join the Alliance: mmaglobal.com

World Class Digital Strategy, Marketing, and Entreprise Development in True Partnership Model. We offer best of breed services - including some that we actually pioneered - executed by what we think (know) is the most experienced team of marketers in the business.

iMarketing LTD is a leading full-service online marketing agency specializing in search marketing, online media planning and buying, affiliate marketing, research and technology. When we launched in 1999 – at the height of the Internet – many agencies already steeped in the traditional worlds of marketing and advertising were scrambling to reinvent themselves as online experts. But for us, online marketing has always been the fiber of our being. It’s what we do, and it’s what we do best. Our experience in the era of Web 2.0 (and beyond) runs deep, and extends across multiple channels and multiple verticals. Our advantage is our expertise. As the world of online marketing grows increasingly complex, our clients rely on us as a trusted partner to help them navigate a myriad of available services, solutions and technologies. When is it right to pay CPM vs. CPC vs. CPA? Where should my ad rank in Google? What is the right affiliate commission tier? Am I getting good click-through and conversion rates? Is putting META tags on my site enough for SEO? What is the difference between contextual and behavioral targeting? We help you find the answers to these questions, before you commit marketing dollars to them. We help you design a program that works best for your needs, and your budget. And we’ll spend each and every dollar as if it were our own, to make sure you get the maximum return on your investment. Find out why an ever-growing list of Fortune 500 and Media Metrix 100 companies, including Yahoo!, Forbes, AARP, Dow Jones, eDiets and others, count on us to deliver cost-effective, results-driven solutions to acquire customers and increase revenues via the web.