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Host and owner of The Joe Budden Podcast, funded largely by its Patreon membership network.

Founder and CEO of Banzai International, a marketing technology company focused on audience engagement and event-driven demand generation for B2B marketers.

Joe DePinto is a veteran retail and convenience store executive who joined Target Corporation following a long tenure as CEO of 7-Eleven, bringing deep expertise in retail media, loyalty programs, and consumer data strategy to one of the largest retail media networks in the U.S.

Co-founder and co-CEO of Viral Nation, one of the world's largest influencer marketing agencies, who helped pioneer the creator economy as a mainstream marketing channel.

Serial entrepreneur and investor who founded true[X] and led ad revenue at Fox Networks Group; a leading voice challenging programmatic advertising's broken economics and championing attention-based metrics.

Joe Petyan is a senior AdTech and media leader at VML UK, known for driving data-driven advertising strategy and programmatic innovation within one of the world's largest creative and media networks.

CPO at Permutive driving privacy-first audience targeting and cookieless ad tech solutions for publishers at the edge.

Senior Vice President of Products & Digital Media at Most Valuable Promotions, driving digital media and product strategy for a sports and entertainment promotions company.

VP and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, Joe Stanhope is one of the most cited voices on marketing technology, CDPs, and the convergence of AdTech and MarTech.

General Partner at Aperiam Ventures; co-founder and former CEO of MediaMath.

Executive Director of Prebid.org, Joel Meyer leads the open-source header bidding consortium that underpins programmatic advertising infrastructure for thousands of publishers worldwide.

Joel Samaha leads global licensing, partnerships and expansion at PVH Corp., the parent company of Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, driving brand growth through strategic alliances worldwide.

CMO of Burger King U.S., Joel Yashinsky is a seasoned quick-service restaurant marketer known for driving bold brand campaigns and consumer engagement strategies.

Former CEO of OpenX (2020-2026), deceased January 15, 2026 from cancer at age 58. Pioneered supply path optimization and led OpenX as one of the few independent SSPs against walled-garden ad exchanges. Distinct from the Epsilon CEO of the same name.

Senior Vice President of Entertainment and Streaming Solutions at Disney Advertising, leading the company's streaming ad sales strategy across platforms including Hulu and Disney+.

Chief Growth Officer at Roblox, John Ciancutti brings deep product and engineering leadership from Netflix and Facebook to one of the world's largest gaming and social platforms.

Veteran marketing and brand executive John Costello serves as Vice Chair of the Board at AI startup ZeroToOne.AI, bringing decades of leadership from major consumer brands and retail.

John David Rainey is the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Walmart.

Founder and CEO of CivicScience, John Dick has built one of the most distinctive consumer intelligence and polling platforms used by media companies, brands, and advertisers to understand public opinion at scale.

VP of Revenue and Partnerships, International at Broadsign, driving global growth for one of the leading programmatic digital out-of-home (DOOH) platform providers.

Former CEO of Nike and eBay, John Donahoe is a seasoned enterprise technology and e-commerce leader whose platform-scale expertise intersects with digital advertising and data-driven commerce.