Speaker Bio Pages: Tech Conference 2021

Saul Berman
Chief Strategist
IBM Consulting
Saul J. Berman, Ph.D. is Partner & Vice President, Chief Strategist and Global Salesforce Alliance Leader for IBM Consulting. In this role he works closely with senior executives of major corporations and Salesforce on strategic business issues. He leads a worldwide team of IBM consultants focused on delivering business value through platform-based transformation and industry reinvention. Dr. Berman was the previously the Digital Strategy Global Leader & Lead Strategy Partner for the Media and Entertainment Practice as well as a Global Strategy & Change Services Leader at IBM Global Business Services. Before joining IBM, Saul was the Global Strategic Change Leader at PwC Consulting. He was also previously with The Boston Consulting Group, a divisional Vice President with Broadway Department Stores and an Assistant Professor of Management at the University of Southern California. Dr. Dr. Berman holds a Ph.D. in Management and Information Systems and a MBA in Production Systems and Operations Research from the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University. He obtained a Bachelor of Science in Economics at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Berman was named as one of the Top 25 Consultants of 2005 by Consulting Magazine & Top 50 Marketing executives over 50 by Global CMO Magazine. He is also an editorial advisory board member for Strategy & Leadership Magazine. Additionally, Dr. Berman served as a board member of the USC Film School Entertainment Technology Center, and of the Southern California chapter of the Strategic Leadership Forum. He has also authored numerous books and publications including Not For Free: Revenue Strategies for a New World, published by Harvard Business Review Press, and the numerous IBM Institute for Business Value studies.

Jeremy Helfand,
Vice President and Head of Advertising Platforms,
Hulu
Jeremy Helfand, Vice President and Head of Advertising Platforms, Hulu: Jeremy Helfand is the Vice President and Head of Advertising Platforms at Hulu where he is responsible for leading the company’s advertising strategy, ad product innovation, technology investments and partnerships, and the organization’s engineering operations. Jeremy brings over 20 years of wide-ranging experience across advertising, video and television. Prior to joining Hulu, Helfand served as Vice President of Adobe’s Primetime business unit and its Media & Entertainment vertical where he led the global business for the company’s video delivery, measurement and monetization solutions. During his tenure, Helfand launched Adobe’s multi-screen over-the-top platform and led the development of the technology that powers the industry’s largest multi-screen digital events including the Olympics, World Cup Soccer, and the NFL Super Bowl among others. He was also instrumental in the development of key partnerships across the video and TV industry. Previously, Helfand served as the CEO of Auditude (acquired by Adobe in 2011), a video ad management and monetization tech company. Helfand serves on the IAB Video Board of Directors, and as a Trustee of the Viewpoint School. Helfand graduated from Loyola University with a Bachelor of Business Administration.

Peg Jackson
Managing Director, Global Technology Group
Stifel
Peg Jackson, Managing Director, Mooreland Partners: Peg is a Managing Director in Mooreland Partner’s Greenwich office. She brings more than 20 years of investment banking, venture capital and operating management experience within the media technology sector. At Mooreland, she focuses on the digital media, marketing software and e-commerce industries. Prior to joining Mooreland Partners, she was a Managing Director at Gridley & Co, where she worked on transactions within the digital media sector. Prior to joining Gridley, Peg worked in venture capital as a Managing Director at NeoCarta Ventures investing in media technology companies such as Silverpop and Myrio (acquired by Siemens). Prior to working at NeoCarta, Peg held corporate development and operational roles at NBC and Reuters. Peg holds a BA in Economics from Georgetown University and an MBA from New York University.

Brad Herman,
Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer,
SPACES Inc.
Brad Herman, Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer, SPACES: As co-founder of SPACES, Brad builds on a career that spans visual effects, animation and virtual reality. Most recently, Brad was the head of DreamLab at DreamWorks Animation, where he developed mobile, immersive and interactive experiences that combined the latest technology with storytelling expertise to create innovative new ways to interact with DreamWorks characters. Brad’s work included the creation of DreamWorks VR, the company’s first-ever virtual reality platform, and the technology behind DreamPlace, a holiday location-based attraction. Brad was previously a crowds supervisor on such DreamWorks Animation films as Turbo, Kung Fu Panda 2 and Monsters vs. Aliens. He has also held various positions at visual-effects powerhouse Digital Domain. Brad and SPACES co-founder Shiraz Akmal are inventors of multiple patented VR technologies.

Joanna Popper
Emerging Media
Immersive and Media Executive
Joanna Popper was the Chief Metaverse Officer at leading entertainment and sports agency Creative Artists Agency (CAA). Based in Los Angeles, Popper led emerging technology and metaverse initiatives for the agency and its clients. Popper joined CAA in 2022 from HP, where she led its XR initiatives for Go-To-Market, overseeing the launch of award-winning technology, such as the HP Reverb G2 VR headset (winner of Red Dot Design Award, CES Innovation Award, IF Design Award) and HP Reverb G2 Omnicept Edition (winner of VR Hardware of the Year, Entertainment Technology Lumiere Award, Red Dot Best of the Best, CES Innovation Award, IF Design Award). While leading HP’s VR go-to-market, the business grew 10x to a multi-million dollar business. Previously, she was Executive Vice President of Media & Marketing at Singularity University, a NASA-based, Google-backed organization founded by Ray Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis to train leaders on the future of technology including artificial intelligence, VR/AR, robotics, blockchain, and digital biology. She was also the Vice President of Marketing at NBCUniversal, where she worked across properties, including television, film, digital, and parks, and launched top-rated hits in primetime, music award shows, sports, news, daytime, and more for Telemundo. She started her career as an investment banker in New York and Brazil and then a consultant at McKinsey & Company. She served as Executive Producer on BREONNA’S GARDEN, FINDING PANDORA X, and FIGHT BACK, the award-winning immersive content, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, and SXSW. FINDING PANDORA X won Venice’s Golden Lion for Best Immersive Experience and SXSW’s best Virtual Cinema Award. BREONNA’s GARDEN received awards and recognition for social impact from PGA Innovation, Unity, Auggie, Filmgate, and Aurea. FIGHT BACK won an audience award at Venice. She was selected as “50 Women Can Change the World in Media and Entertainment,” ”25 Pioneers in the Metaverse,” “Top 50 Original Thinkers in VR,” “Top Women in Media: Game Changers,” “Top Women in Media: Industry Leaders,” “Digital It List,” and “101 Women Leading the VR Industry.” She has sat on numerous boards and in advisory roles including as Metaphysic Board Observer, the Coalition for the Women in XR Fund, Unity Charitable Fund Advisory Board, Vidcon Industry Advisory Board, AIXR Steering Committee and CES Consumer Technology Association AR/VR Working Committee. Popper graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor’s degree, and The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania with an MBA.

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Dan Kalmowitz

House

Christopher Kenneally

Christopher Kenneally

DIrector, Marketing

Copyright Clearance Center

Mike Kerans

Principal

C.R.O. Partners, Inc.

Jennifer Keys

Archivist

The Omaha Star Newspaper

Joni King

Administrative Assistant

Snelling

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Kelly Krause

Marketing Manager

Coastal Cloud

Steven Larkin

National Advertising Consultant and Director of Corporate Partnership

National Newspaper Publishers Association

Dorothy Leavell

Editor and Publisher

Chicago Crusader Newspaper

AYESHA Lee

Radiant Ink Customs Designs LLC

Larry Lee

Publisher

The Sacramento Observer

Tanisha LEONARD

President

RTM360

Monique Lindsay

Monique Lindsay

Mental health Advocate Food Advocate

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Desi Lorell

DoD

James Luckey Jr

James Luckey Jr

Publisher/Editor

Bakersfield News Observer

Glenn Lutz

Author

Glenn Lutz Studio

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James Madison

Publisher

Florida Sun Newspaper

Adea Mandulo

Adminstrator

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Arie Mangrum

Managing Director

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