Jonathan Perelman is the VP of Agency Strategy and Industry Development at BuzzFeed. At BuzzFeed he will work closely on all aspects of the business, with a particular focus on educating advertising agencies on the BuzzFeed platform and ad products. Prior to BuzzFeed, Jonathan spent six years at Google, most recently as the Global Lead for Industry Relations. He was responsible for brand identity initiatives and relationship management within the advertising and media industries. This also includes aligning Google's business and public policy priorities. Google’s Operating Committee awarded the prestigious OC Award to Jonathan for his work on mergers and
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Brian’s passion is pioneering new technology developments and catalyzing the evolution of mobile paradigms. As the CEO and Co-Founder of APX Labs, Brian uses his background in national intelligence systems and computer engineering to position APX Labs as a competitive business in mobile application and wearable computing development for the enterprise. He previously served as the Chief Technology Officer of Mav6, where he was involved in the development of emerging networking technologies and embedded systems for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance applications in government and the military intelligence. Brian spent more than a decade working as a field operations officer and
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A longtime journalist and editor, Nick Parish helps run London-based Contagious in North America. Nick works on Contagious' award-winning quarterly briefing book, frequent special reports, web platforms and client-based consulting projects, all focusing on turning emerging innovative technology and marketing into future-facing business intelligence. He's spoken at dozens of leading industry events including the Cannes Lions, SXSW Interactive, IDEA, CaT: Creativity and Technology, Yahoo! Provoke Summit, CreateTech, FutureFlash, Interesting New York and his work has been published in the New York Post, New York magazine, Advertising Age, Creativity, Slam, Comstock's, Mashable and the Globe & Mail. He resides in Brooklyn
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Nick Moore took creative charge of Wunderman New York in September 2006 and is quickly transforming the agency into a conceptually-driven, multi-channel creative powerhouse. Embracing today's media landscape of real-time data, co-creation with consumers, and almost limitless channel combinations, Nick is pioneering exciting new ways to develop lasting conversations between brands and consumers. Nick is responsible for leading every aspect of the creative process for New York?s diverse global client base, which includes Microsoft, MSN, Hewlett-Packard, Citibank, Diageo, AstraZeneca, and Land Rover. Wunderman has won over 30 industry awards in less than 2 years under Nick?s creative leadership. Nick began his 20-year
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Jory Benerofe is the Vice President of Branding for the lifestyle apparel brand, vineyard vines. He originally joined the company as a tie designer, but quickly focused his efforts to help shape the visual presentation and voice of the company. Over the past 12 years, Jory has been responsible for the creative direction of the vineyard vines catalog and website as well as building and leading the Creative Services Team. Currently, his focus is on pushing the overall brand presentation and voice to customers across all areas and touch points.
David Bryant is Chief Creative Officer of Organic. He graduated from Kings College with a degree in Computer Science and Management. He most recently worked as a Creative Strategist for Google, where he created films and experiences for many different products and platforms. At the age of 29 he was a founding member of another Omnicom digital agency - Tribal DDB. Over his career Bryant has received more than 40 awards for digital and film work at festivals and shows including Cannes, D&AD and One Show and served on their Juries. “It’s an exciting time to be a creative when technology, strategy, and
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Marissa is the founder and CEO of GO TRY IT ON (www.gotryion.com) a social retailing start up based in New York City. GO TRY IT ON seeks to transform the social retailing space by helping people answer the question "What should I wear?" Her past experiences include working at the digital media agency, Digitas in Strategy & Analytics. Here she focused her efforts on helping brands build out digital social media marketing initiatives. Marissa started her first company, a personalized merchandise company, A Shirt Thing, LLC in 2005. Marissa attended Cornell University ('06) and earned her MBA from Harvard Business School ('08). Marissa resides in New York
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Mike Nizza is Editor of Esquire Digital, a newly-created position that he accepted after spending his career of the frontiers of digital media. Just as the dot-com bubble was bursting, he joined the crew guiding The New York Times from print to Web giant. In eight years, he coded and cropped photos, reported and edited, wrote headlines, selected the front-page lineup and managed teams and new initiatives. He also penned The Lede, the Times' breaking news blog, providing real-time coverage on banner news days and writing hundreds of articles on everything from foreign affairs and politics to technology and music. Later, Nizza became co-director
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The experience age is redefining the relationship between people and brands. The agency of the future will be the mediator of a value exchange between these two constituencies. And Jonathan Hoffman is the person charged with evolving media agency network Starcom MediaVest Group (SMG) to its next generation role by planning and designing dynamic integrated experiences that evolve marketing from making people want things to making things people want. Since joining SMG in 2011, Hoffman and his team strive to help clients – including Anheuser-Busch, Best Buy, Samsung and more – move beyond a transactional model with customers to a behavior-based
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