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Apr 2020
We’re Magnite (NASDAQ: MGNI), the world’s largest independent sell-side advertising company. Publishers use our technology to monetize their content across all screens and formats including CTV, online video, display, and audio. The worlds leading agencies and brands trust our platform to access brand-safe, high-quality ad inventory and execute billions of advertising transactions each month. In April 2021 we acquired SpotX to further enhance our CTV business and better help our clients in this rapidly growing market. Anchored in sunny Los Angeles, bustling New York City, mile high Denver, historic London, and down under in Sydney, Magnite has offices across North America, EMEA, LATAM, and APAC.
Board Observer
Apr 2019
World-renowned brands, agencies, publishers, and platforms rely on Veritonic’s comprehensive audio analytics and research platform to research, test, and measure the ROI of their audio assets and campaigns pre-market, in-market, and post-campaign. The resulting insight enables clients to gain confidence in their audio investment, mitigate risk through optimization, and increase their return as they engage consumers with compelling audio experiences. For more information, visit https://www.veritonic.com.
Board Member
Jan 2016
Our core thesis at Kamcord was that people do very interesting things on their phone screen but don't have a good way to capture and share those moments.
We've built 3 products in 5 years:
- A mobile gameplay recording SDK that was on 200M devices at its peak
- A live streaming community that reached 2M MAU and $2M ARR off virtual goods
- A mobile social app focused on editing and sharing screenshots and screen recordings
Board Member
Feb 2015
Mashable is a media and entertainment company for superfans. We’re not for the casually curious. We devour culture and tech. Our ideas shape the future. Obsess with us.
http://www.mashable.com
Board Member
Dec 2013
iSocket (acquired by Rubicon Project on November 17, 2014) is a technology platform purpose-built to simplify the buying and selling of fixed price, premium, reserved inventory. iSocket For Publishers (iFP) sales automation and programmatic direct tools allow top publisher sales teams to focus on relationships and strategy, while iSocket For Advertisers (iFA) makes it easier for agencies, brands, and buying and planning platforms to execute orders of well-defined, guaranteed inventory directly with top publishers. Through automation, iSocket is able to eliminate many of the errors and overhead costs that plague the manual media sales process.
Board Member
Jun 2013
Telaria (NYSE: TLRA), is a complete software platform to manage premium video advertising. We engineer the most robust suite of analytics, automated decisioning, and integrated programmatic and direct monetization tools in the industry. Global publishers require total command of their business; Telaria's independent solution empowers unbiased decisions for the best revenue outcomes.
Board Member
Dec 2012
Maker Studios is a global digital media brand and the original creator network.
Founded in 2009 as a collaborative content engine, Maker Studios continues to innovate with global creators by producing award-winning, original short form series.
Beyond social platforms such as YouTube and Facebook, original series and creator content can be viewed across more than 20 distribution platforms worldwide.
Maker Studios is rooted in creator relationships and offers original programming, distribution, enterprise, and brand partnership opportunities to its global network – pairing advertisers looking to reach millennial audiences with the world’s biggest digital names across multiple genres.
Maker Studios, a division of Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Medias Disney Digital Network, is headquartered in Culver City, California, with operations in 12 markets across the globe under The Walt Disney Company umbrella.
For more information visit ddn.disney.com.
Board Member
Dec 2011
Bluefin Labs is a social TV analytics company providing solutions to brand advertisers, advertising agencies and TV networks. Bluefin Labs’ technology and professional services enable clients to tap into data at scale that links people’s social media commentary to the shows and commercials they watch on TV. Grounded in 15 years of cognitive science and machine learning research at the MIT Media Lab, Bluefin Labs was founded in 2008 and has offices in Cambridge, MA and New York, NY. For more about Bluefin Labs, visit www.bluefinlabs.com.
Board Member
May 2011
CrowdStar is a global leader in mobile and social gaming developing entertainment for women. The company's flagship fashion styling game Covet Fashion entertains millions of women daily.
Founded in 2008, CrowdStar has deep roots in designing inventive games for women. The company is backed by strategic investors Time Warner and Intel Capital and boasts global partnerships with Tencent, NHN and Facebook. CrowdStar's games can be found across multiple platforms including Apple's iOS, Google Play, Amazon and Microsoft.
Board Observer
Jul 2010
Admeld helps the world’s top online publishers sell their ad inventory smarter. Built and run by publishing veterans, the company provides its clients with expertise and technology to capture new revenue streams, control how they sell each impression, and protect their data and brand. Admeld customers include Answers.com, Discovery Communications, FOX News, Hearst Television, IDG TechNetwork, The Weather Channel and more than 500 others worldwide. The company is headquartered in New York City with offices in London, Berlin, San Francisco, and Toronto.
Board Observer
Jun 2010
PlaySpan provides developers and content producers of online games, content, cloud applications and social networks a trusted monetization platform for safe, convenient and user-friendly in-app, in-browser purchases accepting over 100 payment methods in 180 countries. PlaySpan’s payments platform and digital goods monetization platform is trusted by the leading content producers in the world to power monetization and payments of their content. Disney, Nickelodeon, Warner Bros. Microsoft, Ubisoft and NCSoft games use PlaySpan. PlaySpan has won 12 awards during past three years and was honored by 2010 OnMedia Top 100, and the AlwaysOn Global 250.
On March 1, 2011, Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) acquired Playspan Inc. Media inquiries may be directed to globalmedia@visa.com; investor relations questions may be directed to ir@visa.com.
Board Member
Apr 2010
No one knows how to drive growth and business performance through TV advertising better than Simulmedia, a marketer’s most trusted tech partner. In today’s complex, fast-moving TV industry, Simulmedia is your turnkey, one-stop shop to help you make the best decisions and solve your biggest and toughest challenges on TV.
Powered by data science, our TV+ full-funnel TV advertising solution lets you intelligently plan and buy linear, streaming, and gaming. With TV+, you’ll have more certainty in achieving your business goals by knowing how to best find and engage your strategic audience on linear and CTV as cost-effectively as possible. In addition, we allow advertisers to extend their reach and connect with elusive younger audiences via PlayerWON™, the first engagement and monetization platform for free-to-play PC and console video games.
With over 15 years of experience bringing data science into advanced TV media buying, Simulmedia is the first and only provider to create a patented predictive lookalike model based on years of viewership data to bring smarter media buying to clients like Mass Mutual, Monster, Electrolux, and Choice Hotels.
Board Observer
Apr 2008
WB Games Boston, is a Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment development studio focused on creating free-to-play games for mobile platforms. The studio is utilizing its extensive expertise in creating persistent online worlds that foster powerful social gaming communities to develop its hit mobile game, Game of Thrones: Conquest.
Board Member
Mar 2007
ScanScout is video advertising that guarantees results. As the leading in-stream video advertising provider, the company connects advertisers and consumers through online video maximizing brand impact and providing unmatched transparency and measurability within the industry. By utilizing breakthrough proprietary technology that ensures precision targeting, real-time optimization and brand protection, ScanScout generates engagement and value throughout the entire video-viewing experience. Partners include more than 1,000 premium and niche sites including Warner Brothers, NBC Owned and Operated, RealNetworks and Fox News. For more information, please visit: www.scanscout.com.
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Mar 2025
Across 55 countries and nearly 45 years , we have led the global fight against hunger. We save the lives of children and their families. We are there for them before and after disaster strikes. We enable people to provide for themselves, see their children grow up strong, and for whole communities to prosper. We constantly search for more effective solutions, while sharing our knowledge and expertise with the world. We push for long-term change. We will never give up. Until the world is free from hunger.
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Apr 2020
We’re Magnite (NASDAQ: MGNI), the world’s largest independent sell-side advertising company. Publishers use our technology to monetize their content across all screens and formats including CTV, online video, display, and audio. The worlds leading agencies and brands trust our platform to access brand-safe, high-quality ad inventory and execute billions of advertising transactions each month. In April 2021 we acquired SpotX to further enhance our CTV business and better help our clients in this rapidly growing market. Anchored in sunny Los Angeles, bustling New York City, mile high Denver, historic London, and down under in Sydney, Magnite has offices across North America, EMEA, LATAM, and APAC.
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Board Observer
Apr 2019
World-renowned brands, agencies, publishers, and platforms rely on Veritonic’s comprehensive audio analytics and research platform to research, test, and measure the ROI of their audio assets and campaigns pre-market, in-market, and post-campaign. The resulting insight enables clients to gain confidence in their audio investment, mitigate risk through optimization, and increase their return as they engage consumers with compelling audio experiences. For more information, visit https://www.veritonic.com.
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Imagination Capital
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Jan 2016
Our core thesis at Kamcord was that people do very interesting things on their phone screen but don't have a good way to capture and share those moments.
We've built 3 products in 5 years:
- A mobile gameplay recording SDK that was on 200M devices at its peak
- A live streaming community that reached 2M MAU and $2M ARR off virtual goods
- A mobile social app focused on editing and sharing screenshots and screen recordings
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