Speakers

Most recently, Hanlon was Executive Vice President/Managing Director of VivaKi Ventures, the strategic partnership and investment arm of VivaKi – the digital services hub of marketing services agency holding company Publicis Groupe, S.A., comprising Starcom MediaVest Group, Zenith Optimedia Group, Digitas, Razorfish, and Denuo. He was chiefly responsible for the solicitation, negotiation and oversight of the unit’s strategic partnership and investment activity – including formal advisory and directorial positions with over three dozen early-stage companies – an outgrowth of his previous work as head of ventures activity for both Denuo and Publicis Groupe Media.

Prior to founding the Denuo Ventures and PGM Ventures practices, Hanlon was Senior Vice President/Director, Emerging Contacts for Starcom MediaVest Group. He was chiefly responsible for all US client activity and agency initiatives in the field of emerging media technologies, including the firm’s ground-breaking TV 2.0 Practice, centered around evolutionary television platforms such as interactive/enhanced television, on-demand video, digital video recording, interactive program guide navigation, addressable advertising, and digital broadcasting/datacasting.

Hanlon has over 20 years of traditional and interactive agency media experience across the intersection of marketing, media, advertising, and technology. He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth Graduate School of Business, and a BA from Georgetown University.

Brad joins the company after almost 5 years at Yahoo!, where he served as Managing Director of Category Development focused on driving revenue from top marketers across both search and display advertising in the travel vertical. At Yahoo!, Brad led teams that developed category-specific products, programs and initiatives in the areas of sponsored search, graphical media, behavioral targeting, social media and meta search. Prior to joining Yahoo in June 2004, Brad managed Airline Supplier Relations and Operations for Hotwire.com. In this role he built and maintained partnerships with 33 domestic and international carriers and assisted Hotwire.com in becoming the largest seller of opaque airline tickets on the web. Prior to joining Hotwire.com, Brad served as the Director of Global Hotel Distribution for WorldRes, Marketing Manager for Vail Resorts and he got his start as a Pricing and Yield Management Analyst at Northwest Airlines.

With ten years of online media, banking and military experience, Ramsey brings a diverse background to his role. He is a veteran of the Persian Gulf War and the early days of the Internet, and thrives in chaotic, fast-paced environments. Before joining Right Media, McGrory worked in media and technology sales at DoubleClick and Excite. He also spent six years at NationsBank and at Citigroup, in the Treasury and Derivatives Trading Groups, focused on Internet banking and credit/debt derivatives structuring. He was in the military from 1985-1993.

McGrory is based in New York City. He received an undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of the South, and a Master’s degree in Management from Georgia Tech. He is active in the William J. Clinton Foundation and sits on the board of The Jericho Project.

Prior to Travelocity, Victoria was involved in driving marketing and new product development for leading consumer and Internet brands including American Express and Amazon.com. At Amazon.com, Victoria was responsible for developing, launching, and managing multiple new product categories including gifts, out of print books, and premium auctions as the company expanded from books into new segments. Victoria started her career as a consultant for Ernst and Young’s Telecommunications practice where she focused on helping wireless carriers expand and consolidate their market reach.

Victoria serves as an Advisor to RingCentral corporation, a late stage Sequoia Capital funded startup. She is on the Board of Jewish Vocational Services, is a Wexner Program Fellow, and is also active with SFMOMA. Victoria received her MBA from the Harvard Business School, and a double undergraduate degree with distinction in Business and International Studies from the University of Washington.

A successful serial entrepreneur, Joe was more recently the founder, President and Chairman of Poindexter Systems / [x+1], a pure-play marketing optimization company. [x+1] was named one of Inc.’s Top 500 Fastest Growing Companies in 2006 prior to his departure to found MediaMath.

His first career was as an investment banker, which may appear quaint and archaic in five years, but provided an excellent grounding in quantitative analysis and market dynamics.

He continues as an active investor in technology, real estate, and film as a managing director of Porcellian Capital, LLC, a seed and Series A stage investment fund.

Joe is surprisingly proud of his Patent 20020188508, an “Online System and Method for Dynamic Segmentation and Content Presentation”, and his speaking and writing engagements with the DMA, ad:tech, Mediapost, ClickZ, AdMap, and others.

Joe graduated from Harvard University with an BA in English and was a Teaching Fellow in cosmology, set theory, and the history of science. He lives in New York City with his wife, Daria, and their children Dune and Jack, born on the summer and winter solstices respectively.