People

Senior Editor at Digiday covering the business and technology of programmatic advertising, privacy regulation, and ad tech market dynamics with sharp, analytical depth.

Tim Massa is Kroger's SVP of Loyalty & Alternative Profit, a key architect of Kroger's retail media and data monetization strategy through 84.51° and Kroger Precision Marketing.

VP of Inventory Partnerships at The Trade Desk, Tim Sims is one of programmatic advertising's leading architects of supply path optimization, shaping how DSPs structure relationships with publishers and SSPs at scale.

Co-founder and CEO of Viant Technology, Tim Vanderhook has built one of AdTech's leading people-based DSPs and taken it public on Nasdaq, pioneering cookieless identity solutions for programmatic advertising.

Chief Addressability Officer at Kargo driving cookieless identity strategy and privacy-preserving ad tech solutions in a post-cookie world.

Tobias Silber is SVP of Digital Ad Products at Fox Corporation, driving the broadcaster's advanced advertising and data-driven monetization strategy across its digital portfolio.

Seasoned AdTech executive and CEO of Help Scout, known for scaling programmatic and social advertising platforms including TripleLift and Adaptly (acquired by Accenture Interactive).

Founder of Gordon Growth Enterprises and co-founder of audyns; programmatic-TV veteran (ex-Tatari, Adobe Advertising Cloud, TubeMogul, Magna Global).

Chief Marketing Officer at Kraft Heinz known for blending cultural relevance with data-driven marketing, previously a rising star at PepsiCo where he led Pepsi's brand renaissance through bold creative and music-driven campaigns.

CPO & President, Performance Media at Criteo.

VP of Advertising Platforms at Apple, focused on privacy-first advertising solutions.

CTO at Magnite; led merger integration of Rubicon Project and Telaria; built Telaria's CTV and video ad tech platform.

Founder and CEO of Chalice Custom Algorithms, Tom Laband is a leading operator-innovator in programmatic advertising known for enabling brands and agencies to replace black-box DSP bidding with custom machine learning algorithms tailored to their specific KPIs.

Tom Segura is a stand-up comedian, podcaster, and co-founder of YMH Studios, known for leveraging independent media and podcast advertising to build a major entertainment brand outside traditional networks.

Veteran AdTech strategist and founder of Lemonade Projects, known for deep programmatic expertise and advising companies on go-to-market strategy across the digital advertising ecosystem.

Co-founder of ironSource (acquired by Unity for $4.4B) and now Chairman of ZyG, an agentic AI eCommerce startup — one of AdTech's most accomplished serial entrepreneurs bridging mobile advertising and next-generation commerce.

Tony Baddingham is CEO of White Digital Media and a prominent figure in UK regional digital advertising, known for driving programmatic adoption among local publishers.

CEO of IAB Europe and chief steward of the Transparency & Consent Framework (TCF), Townsend Feehan is one of the most influential figures shaping digital advertising regulation and privacy standards across Europe.