Alex Loza is the Vice President of Enterprise Sales at TelevisaUnivision, the world’s leading Spanish-language media company. In his role, Loza is tasked with advancing how the telecom category shows up, connects and creates value. As TelevisaUnivision continues to evolve, Alex’s work centers on translating that vision into clear, strategic opportunities for brands — moving beyond transactional media toward long-term category growth. He partners with teams to remove friction, challenge legacy thinking and develop strategies that reflect where telecom and consumers are headed next, not where they’ve been.

With over 16 years of experience building enterprise partnerships across the digital landscape, Loza is a strategic digital advertising leader who brings extensive expertise in omni-channel strategies that bridge traditional linear video to emerging platforms and channels, including long form, short form, vertical, CTV, social, programmatic and beyond.

Mark Kapczynski is the Head of Advertising Services as part of the Commerce Media Network at RE/MAX in the real estate market. He focuses on 360 partnerships for brands that help to solve challenges for RE/MAX home buyers and sellers. RE/MAX has a unique home buying audience along with over 50,000 agents in the US.

Kapczynski previously ran Kontrol Media Consultancy and served as CMO for several companies, working in executive roles at Envestnet:Yodlee, Experian, FreeCreditReport.com and Microsoft.

Adam Shrout is Senior Account Executive, Lyft Ads at Lyft.

Rich Kim is the Senior Vice President of Biddable Media at Canvas Worldwide.

Brittany joined Target in February of 2024 as Senior Director, leading Roundel’s Partner Solution Group’s discretionary business. Her organization partners with hardlines, home, and apparel & accessories vendors to drive meaningful business outcomes leveraging Roundel’s media solutions. Brittany is an action-oriented sales leader with a track record of driving large scale organizational impact with operational excellence. Prior to joining Target, Brittany spent seven years at Amazon in a variety of vendor management, sales and leadership positions across their Retail and Amazon Ads orgs.​

Prior to joining Amazon, Brittany held several roles at Procter & Gamble including analyst, program management, and sales roles. Brittany holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administrations & Economics from Illinois Wesleyan University and an MBA from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. Originally from the Mid-West, Brittany now resides in Los Angelos, California with her husband Charles and two children.

Derek Gatts is the Vice President of Streaming & Digital Advertising Strategy and Innovation at Warner Bros. Discovery. A recognized thought leader in advertising innovation, he leads ad product strategy and development across the company’s expansive portfolio. Gatts is at the forefront of the industry’s shift toward contextual advertising & interactivity on Connected TV. He has been instrumental in driving the development of shoppable video formats, championing standardization across the marketplace, and leveraging generative AI to move beyond basic genre curation to unlock deeper contextual advertising signals. His work focuses on transforming the living room screen from a brand awareness vehicle into a powerful driver of direct consumer action.

Prior to his current tenure, which began in April 2019, Gatts served as the Global Head of Advertising Innovation and Operations at Bloomberg Media Group, overseeing ad product, programmatic, media planning, and client marketing across digital, linear, radio, and print platforms. At Bloomberg, he spearheaded the creation of “Ad.apt”—a suite of proprietary, data-driven display ad formats that dynamically customized creative. He was also a staunch advocate for user experience and brand protection, leading a major quality initiative that successfully cut page load times in half. Before Bloomberg, Gatts spent nearly a decade at Time Inc. in key operational, ad product, and strategy roles, executing high-impact mobile and video campaigns across iconic brands like People and Entertainment Weekly.

Beyond his extensive career in media and technology, Gatts’s early professional life was spent on the stage as an actor in New York City, performing in numerous classic musicals. He resides in Bloomfield, New Jersey, with his wife Noel and three children, Parker, Easton & Bellamy.

Wendy Rubiano is the Director of Marketing at Vallarta Supermarkets, where she leads brand storytelling, retail media innovation, and digital ecosystem growth for one of the fastest-growing Hispanic grocery chains in the U.S.

With over 20 years of experience in digital marketing, she has built and scaled high-impact programs across social media, influencer marketing, and retail media driving measurable revenue growth and expanding digital audiences. Under her leadership, Vallarta’s platforms have experienced significant growth and increased engagement.

Wendy is known for blending data-driven strategy with authentic storytelling to create meaningful connections with multicultural audiences. She has led 360° campaigns and developed vendor-funded media programs that bridge in-store experiences with digital engagement.

A passionate leader and speaker, Wendy brings a unique perspective on how culture, community, and commerce intersect to shape the future of retail media.

Senior Director, Revenue & Growth – Jolt Charge

VP, Partner Solutions Group – Roundel

Michael Shields is the Founder and CEO of Vica, a technology-enabled creative agency focused on making premium video advertising accessible to small and mid-sized businesses. Vica deploys cutting edge generative AI models to develop cinematic quality video advertising and deliver it across leading streaming services. With more than two decades of experience at the intersection of media, advertising, and technology, Michael has built and scaled innovative products across both startups and global organizations.

Before founding Vica, he held senior leadership roles at 21st Century Fox, Viacom, Warner Music Group, and TripleLift, where he led initiatives spanning connected TV, digital strategy, and business development. Known for identifying untapped market opportunities, Michael has consistently driven growth through innovative product development and strategic partnerships.

He holds a B.A. from Columbia University and an MBA from the University of Oxford, and is a recognized voice on the impact of artificial intelligence on the future of the industry.

Dan Callahan is the Senior Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer for Spectrum Reach, the advertising and sales division of Charter Communications. In this role, Dan is responsible for all revenue generation activities at Spectrum Reach, leveraging his extensive experience to create new growth opportunities for its advertising and sales capabilities. He is an experienced sales executive with a proven track record of strategy, innovation, and transformation within the industry. He is committed to shaping the future of converged, addressable, and data-enabled TV, and will be instrumental as Spectrum Reach continues to create new growth opportunities for our advertising and sales capabilities. 

As a veteran in the media, marketing, and advertising sales industry, Dan has been at the forefront of change and innovation with a steady focus on the ‘next generation’ of advertising capabilities, notably around addressable and programmatic advertising solutions. He holds a B.A. from Wake Forest University.

Benoit Vatere is the chief media officer of Liquid Death, one of the fastest growing non-alcoholic beverage brands. Liquid Death uses comedy and entertainment to make health and sustainability 50 times more fun. It takes low-calorie beverages and packages them into infinitely recyclable cans that compete with the fun marketing of unhealthy brands across beer and junk food. Its product lines include mountain water, soda-flavored sparkling water, iced tea, and energy. A portion of Liquid Death’s proceeds helps kill plastic pollution.

Prior to Liquid Death, Benoit founded Mammoth Media, a digital-to-retail technology company where he built and executed strategic digital media campaigns with focus on incrementality for leading CPG brands such as Pepsi, Lemon Perfect, 7 Eleven, and Siete. Before Mammoth Media, Benoit served as the CEO of mobile gaming monetization platform Playhaven and co-founded conversion optimization company magnify360.

Benoit holds a master’s degree in engineering and a marketing degree from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Sciences Agronomiques de Bordeaux.

Cady Glaser is a seasoned marketing leader driving strategic partnerships and growth for DoorDash’s Ads business across four key areas—Retailers, Non-Endemic, Agency, and Offsite Media—collectively known as New Ventures. As Head of New Ventures, she leads the development and execution of initiatives that serve as net-new growth levers for DoorDash.

Before joining DoorDash, Cady led strategic brand partnerships at Whatnot, the Series F-funded livestream e-commerce platform. Prior to that, she spent several years at Amazon Ads, where she played a key role in building the advertising business from its early days, spanning ad tech as well as the hospitality and financial services categories.

Cady holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Stanford University and a Master’s in International Development from New York University. She currently resides in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter.

Stephen Docherty

Director of Trade Marketing, National & Licensed Brands – Sigma

Ryan Woodhatch is a Senior Director and member of the inaugural Versant Digital Platforms and Ventures team, where he leads advertising sales and data partnerships across Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow and GolfPass.

Paul Richardson-Owen, Chief Digital Transformation Officer in charge of the Apple account at OMD, is a results focused and tech-savvy media and marketing leader with more than 15 years of experience devising and executing best-in-class media strategies, creative solutions and new capabilities for iconic industry-leading brands including Apple, Microsoft, P&G and Adidas.