Scott Brown GM, Audience Measurement Nielsen Scott Brown, GM, Audience Measurement, Nielsen: As General Manager of Audience Measurement at Nielsen, Scott Brown is responsible for innovating the company’s cross media measurement products and driving the unification of its linear, advanced TV and digital solutions. Scott is responsible for the overall strategy, product execution, and P&L across Nielsen’s measurement products. Under Scott’s leadership, Nielsen is overhauling its digital identity solution enabling the company to create a flexible, independent platform that can quickly adapt to evolving privacy and policy changes. He is spearheading the product transformation of Nielsen’s National TV business by bringing scalable addressable advertising solutions to the $70 billion TV advertising industry. Prior, he led the product transformation of Nielsen’s Local TV business, integrating a big data solution while retiring the entire legacy application suite. Since joining Nielsen in 2009, Scott has held various roles across product management and technology. Previously, Scott served as Chief Technology Officer for Nielsen’s global measurement. In that role, he led the technical implementation of its digital solutions across screens and the migration of its infrastructure to public cloud. That cloud-based platform currently underpins Nielsen’s entire audience measurement product suite today. Scott attended the University of Florida and earned a M.S. in Information Systems and a B.S. in Business Administration. He was recently named a “Top 40 Under 40” honoree by The Tampa Bay Business Journal. Scott lives in Tampa with his wife, Melanie, and their two daughters.
Eric Shamlin SVP of Growth Media.Monks Eric Shamlin, SVP of Growth, Media.Monks: Eric Shamlin leads entertainment growth at Media.Monks, where he heads up innovative partnerships with leading technology and entertainment brands. With a broad background in technology, visual effects and entertainment, Shamlin is pioneering the future of entertainment powered by digital, interactive and immersive technologies. Eric Shamlin is a two-time Emmy winner, 12-time Cannes Lion winner and 19-year member of the Television Academy where he holds seats on the Digital Strategy Committee, Interactive Media Peer Group and co-chairs the Experience Design Work Group.
Emily Powers Executive Vice President and Head, BritBox North America Emily Powers, Executive Vice President and Head, BritBox North America: Emily Powers is a seasoned corporate strategist and business executive with over 15 years of experience in media. She currently serves as Executive Vice President and Head of BritBox North America spearheading the business for North America with a focus on strategic growth, marketing and content. She leads on all commercial relationships, distribution partnerships, performance marketing, and customer retention. Her current focus is on evaluating, fostering, and delivering strong business development growth opportunities through new platforms, regional expansion and innovative partnerships. Previously, as SVP Commercial and an original member of the BritBox team, Powers was responsible for writing the initial business plan, negotiating and executing the joint-venture relationship between BBC and ITV, and directing the service launch in the U.S. & Canada. Her distribution and performance marketing efforts resulted in achieving >1m subscribers by the third year of the service. She is additionally overseeing business operations for the launch of BritBox in Australia. Powers joined BBC Studios North America in 2012 as Director of Strategy and was later promoted to VP, Strategy & Business Development. In this role, Powers worked to support all of the BBC Studios businesses in a strategic capacity, including Program Sales, Digital Distribution, BBC.com, LA Productions, and also provided strategic deal support and analysis for the spin-off of BBC America into a joint-venture with AMC Networks. Prior to her tenure with the BBC, Powers was Director of Business Development in NBCUniversal’s Digital Distribution group. She was responsible for strategic oversight and deal negotiations for NBCU content distribution on third party digital platforms. Her area of focus included mobile video distribution and supporting the team’s U.S. and Canada Multichannel programming relationships. Powers also served as the main analyst for the broadcast network Affiliate Relations team, working to develop and expand the company’s partnership with non-owned NBC station groups. Powers began her career as an Associate Producer at National Geographic Television & Film, where she produced natural history documentary programming for the National Geographic Channel. She is an MBA graduate from NYU’s Stern School of Business with an undergraduate degree from Georgetown University. She currently resides in Westchester County New York with her husband and three children.
Scott Rosenberg, SVP & General Manager, Platform Business Roku Scott Rosenberg is Senior Vice President of Roku and serves as General Manager of the company’s Platform Business overseeing global channel distribution, advertising, and The Roku Channel. As GM of Roku’s Platform business, Scott and his team have helped spearhead Roku’s incredible revenue and profit growth, as Roku became the #1 streaming platform in the United States. The platform business today represents more than 2/3rds of the company’s revenue. He joined the company in 2012, played a key role in the company’s 2017 IPO, and is an executive officer reporting to the CEO.
Roku’s advertising business is a central driver of its rapid revenue growth. In 2013, Scott led the creation of the ad business, setting multiple industry precedents for how streaming ads would be bought, targeted and measured. Today, Roku’s ad business serves 90% of AdAge 200 brands. Scott’s team also includes The Roku Channel, the preeminent channel for premium and free content on the Roku Platform, reaching tens of millions of viewers with more than 100,000 free and premium movies and programs. Scott’s team also oversees the distribution and promotion of all channels on the Roku platform, from Netflix, Disney and Hulu to thousands of small, self-published apps.
Scott came to Roku in 2012 after a career leading innovative companies and products in emerging media and digital advertising. He previously co-founded and served as CEO of Umami Co, a companion TV mobile application company; led advertising at Rovi Corporation; and led product for BlackArrow, Inc., a TV ad serving company. Earlier in his career Scott held product and engineering roles focused on advertising and video technologies at Replay TV, Analog Devices and Intel Corporation.
Scott is an in-demand media commentator on the future of television and consumer engagement and has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes, AdWeek and AdAge. He speaks regularly at conferences including Advertising Week, IAB Digital Newfronts and SXSW. Scott holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Princeton University, a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an M.B.A. from the Sloan School at MIT and was a Fulbright Fellow to Japan.
Thai Randolph, President and COO Laugh Out Loud Thai Randolph is an award-winning marketing, business development and operations leader and is the President and COO of Laugh Out Loud. She focused on strategy and operations, including overseeing corporate development, marketing, ad sales, finance and strategic partnerships. Randolph has spent her career at the intersection of content, consumers and commerce and has a proven track-record of developing brands, audience and revenue for some of the biggest names in advertising, technology and entertainment – including WPP, Publicis, Sony and Facebook. In 2018, Randolph was named to AdAge’s 40 Under 40 list and Cynopsis’ It List and in 2019, was named one of Multichannel News’ Wonder Women in Streaming “Women to Watch.”
With Randolph at the helm, LOL had a breakthrough year by diversifying its programming, distribution, and partnerships and has found unique ways to deliver comedy during the pandemic. She co-led the capital raise and partnership deal with NBCUniversal’s Peacock, structured the deal that brought LOL’s Comedy in Color franchise (featuring 300 diverse comedians from 30 different countries) to the Just for Laughs Festival, expanded LOL Audio’s offerings by partnership with Simon & Schuster to bring the franchise to audiobook format, and expanded LOL’s programming on SiriusXM/Pandora. The company now reaches 100 million consumers through LOL Network, with a streaming ecosystem that includes PlutoTV, Roku Channel, Bell Media, Snap, YouTube, Facebook, and more - creating an opportunity for diverse, emerging comedians to bring their comedy to a massive, global audience. The company also hit a major milestone of 2.2 Billion content views across its portfolio, which includes 22 original series, over 300 original stand-up specials and more.