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.