Patrick Brown
President and CEO of Liftable Media Inc.
As the President of Liftable Media, Patrick and his team ensure that the company drives a positive cultural change in the USA. Liftable Media Inc. was founded in 2014 to engage the under-served Heartland American audience and it now reaches over 40 million consumers every month. Their subsidiary brands include Conservative Tribune (top 100 sites in the US), Western Journalism and Liftable (Top 150 sites), and The Wildcard, a growing sports brand. Patrick is passionate about creating compelling content that reflects the traditional values and interests of Heartland America while meeting and exceeding the quality of mainstream media brands. Patrick graduated from Grove City College. He and his wife Katie live in Arizona with their three children.
Paul Belliveau
Vice President of New Media at Yankee Publishing
Paul is responsible for the strategy, planning, and execution of all Yankee Publishing Inc. (YPI) digital initiatives. Yankee Publishing is an independent media company in New Hampshire, committed to creating outstanding products in print and digital media. Paul led the transition of YPI’s traditional media business to digital. He acted as the lead liaison within YPI brands to drive growth in digital revenue and profit. Keeping an eye on market trends and technological developments, he used new media and digital channels to expand and engage the YPI brand audiences. He is an alumnus of Marist College and Con-Val HS.
Paul Gubbins
Head of Strategic Partnerships at Publica LLC
Paul has more than 17 years of experience driving revenue growth for companies such as PubMatic, Reuters, Millennial Media, Verizon, The Telegraph, and Unruly. A technical salesperson with a deep domain knowledge of the digital advertising ecosystem, Paul has been a featured speaker at industry events including AdWeek Europe, Cannes Lions, MWC, Dmexco, New Video Frontiers, Exchange Wire ATS, and IAB summits, covering topics like mobile, digital, and CTV advertising. He is also the winner of Exchange Wire AdTech Personality Of The Year 2018. Currently, Paul heads strategic partnerships for Publica LLC, a leading CTV advertising platform.
Puneet Gupt
COO Times Internet, Digital Business and Product Leader
Being a Digital influencer, Puneet has delivered strong growth in revenue, profitability, market share, audience, and product engagement metrics across both large market-leading brands and new launches. In the past, at Times Internet, he grew the news business of Times of India (TOI) to significant profitability and 50%+ market share. He also took the Indian Language ‘news and content business’ to market leadership and launched and scaled the new businesses of GadgetsNow (gadgets review and comparison), NewsPoint (content aggregator with strong OEM and distribution partnerships) and eTimes (#1 Entertainment destination). Being an engineer from IIT Delhi, Puneet also holds an Executive MBA degree from IIM Calcutta.
Ralph Slate
Principal Data Architect at ISO New England
He has been a data expert for the past 19 years. He has designed multiple databases for applications involving bulk energy power markets at ISO New England. Throughout his career, in addition to mentoring a lot of budding data scientists, Ralph has worked with business experts to understand system requirements, and with application developers to design data flows between and within systems, with the aim to create efficient databases designed in a way to minimize the potential for logical data corruption. Additionally, he has also founded Hockeydb.com in the past. Ralph completed his MS in Operations Research & Statistics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute from whereon he has also went on to serve as the Chairperson of the Springfield Historical Commission.
Rashpal Singh
Director at The Cricket Times
As the Director of The Cricket Times, Rashpal runs a cohesive but cross-functional team to bring cricket-related information and news to their readers. In addition to being a great website for cricket enthusiasts to read the latest news, the website also brings exclusive content for fans where they can find local and global team rankings for all formats of the game and trivia about their favorite cricketers. One can also catch upcoming match schedules and stats of previous matches. With engaging content, The Cricket Times ensures that one is never away from the cricket field and brings comprehensive coverage of cricketing stories, news, photographs, videos, fixtures, rankings, and scores right at your fingertips.
Richard Bailey
Business Operations Director – IDG UK at IDG (International Data Group)
Richard has spent the last 25 years working for the International Data Group’s United Kingdom branch. Headquartered in Massachusetts, United States, IDG Media focuses on demographic and behavioral insights to generate high-quality and factual content. Richard has served different roles in the company including Head of Digital Production, Advertising Operations, and now contributes as a full-time Business Operations Director. From October 2015 to February 2020, he also served as the European Head of Advertising Operations at IDG.
Richard DeSimine
Manager at Central Digital Publishing LLC
Richard is an independent consultant with 30+ years of experience in IT, web development, financial applications, and a strong equity derivatives background. His specialties include managing large scale web sites, web development, equities/derivatives, order management, FIX, Unix, Sybase, Perl, C/C++. Before joining Central Digital Publishing LLC, Richard worked as a Consultant, and later as Vice President at BlackRock. At Central Digital Publishing, Rick and his team host Wordplays.com which offers both word games and tools for solving word-based games.
Rick van de Rozenberg
Co-founder and CEO of Admeen B.V. and 1001spiele
Rick is the co-founder of Admeen, a gaming website based in the Netherlands. The website has around 2500 games and generates around 113m page views with 21m sessions per month. With most of the user base from Europe, more than 5 million players play different games on the website every month. Rick is constantly working with his team to develop different portals for the website, the most prominent being the Jungle Portal. It runs in 22 languages and is designed for all browsers. He is an alumnus of Windesheim University of Applied Sciences.
Rob Beeler
Chairperson at AdMonsters, Founder & CEO of Beeler.Tech
He holds around 20+ years of experience in digital media and Ad tech. At Beeler.tech, Rob works with businesses and companies to provide them with guidance for optimizing their teams through training, consulting, and coaching. At AdMonsters, he is responsible for developing and executing a comprehensive content strategy for their industry-leading conferences, forums, and training seminars. He leads AdMonsters’ efforts in becoming a comprehensive resource for the online advertising operations community. Prior to AdMonsters, Rob worked as Executive Director of Ad Operations and Analytics at Advance Internet. He is an alumnus of Syracuse University.
Ryan Heckert
Digital Ad Tech and Programmatic Operations Consultant at TheDailyDot
Ryan is an accomplished and dedicated digital advertising leader with extensive experience. He has a proven track record in publisher programmatic operations and business development. At The Daily Dot, he oversaw the rollout and monetization of a custom WP plugin for video/display advertising. He is also responsible for establishing direct connections with all major SSPs and managing Header Bidding through the prebid setup. With his team, he manages all direct campaigns. Prior to TheDailyDot, Ryan worked with HYFN Local where he served as the Managing Director of Media Activation and Operations. He is an alumnus of The University of Texas at Austin and Baylor University.
Ryan Smith
Senior Technology Services Director at Goodwill of Orange County
Ryan is an experienced e-commerce director with a demonstrated history of working in the non-profit sector. He leads a diverse team of customer service professionals and full-stack Microsoft-centric developers. Through customer engagement, best practice dissemination, and feature enhancements, the site-wide sales of OC Goodwill grew 500% from 2008 to 2013 under his leadership. Along with his team, he also launched a redesigned interface in August of 2017 helping shopgoodwill pass $500 million in sales since inception. Ryan is an alumnus of Orange Coast College. Some of his previous work experience includes working with DGWB, Firtsource International, and Mariners Bank.
