Nick Ortega

Leading inventory partnerships and product strategy for Digital Out-of-Home (DOOH) and emerging channels at StackAdapt, including Gaming and AI inventory. Driving innovation, scalability, and revenue growth through strategic collaborations and cutting-edge solutions.

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Nick Parker

Nick is a global leader of the OOH media industry, and a highly regarded and praised veteran of WPP - one of the leading media agency groups - who has been at the centre of the growth and evolution of the OOH media over the last 25 years. In his global role at WPP, Nick grew Kinetic’s influence, making OOH more accessible to advertisers, and pioneered Kinetic in its transition into programmatic trading, enabling multiple brands to benefit from programmatic DOOH’s unique capabilities.

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Gulab Patil

Gulab Patil is a visionary entrepreneur with deep expertise in AdTech and emerging media platforms. As the CEO of Lemma, he leads an omnichannel advertising platform that leverages AI-powered cloud tools to help marketers seamlessly activate campaigns across digital formats. Previously, he played a key role at PubMatic, developing an innovative ad-serving platform that drove significant revenue growth. A pragmatic problem solver and strategic thinker, Gulab is committed to driving transparency, efficiency, and innovation in the digital advertising space.

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Jordan Pattison

Jordan Pattison is the Sales Director at Uniguest, bringing over a decade of experience in the digital signage industry. Throughout his career, Jordan has worked across multiple verticals, gaining expertise at various levels of the business. He has been actively involved in shaping the evolution of digital signage deployments, consistently staying ahead of market trends and technology. Jordan's proactive approach and deep understanding of the industry enable him to drive innovative solutions that meet the changing needs of clients, ensuring they leverage digital signage to its maximum.

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Thomas Philippart de Foy

Before joining Appspace in 2012, Thomas spent 15 years at Cisco in a variety of sales and leadership roles. Although a Belgian national, Thomas now lives in Costa Rica, personifying the Appspace mission of keeping workers engaged and productive, regardless of where they are working.

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Rod Rackley

Rod Rackley is a senior executive in the out of home (OOH) advertising industry and currently serves as CEO and President of Circle Graphics, the world’s leading producer of grand and large-format digital graphics. He brings more than 20 years of leadership experience, including a previous tenure as Chief Revenue Officer at Circle Graphics and senior roles at Lamar Advertising. Rackley is recognized for his deep industry expertise and for helping scale one of the largest OOH printing operations in the U.S.

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Esther Raphael

During her tenure, Esther has launched Intersection’s first brand campaign, established a full service in-house creative agency, and has overseen the go-to-market strategy for 10+ new markets and partnerships. Esther is also the Executive Sponsor of WIN, Women at Intersection, where she champions the growth and development of our female leaders.

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Elizabeth Riggio

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James Robins

James Robins is a seasoned Chief Marketing Officer with over 20 years of experience driving high-growth strategies in both B2B and B2C markets. James is currently CMO at Yodeck, the Intelligent Digital Signage Platform™, where he leads marketing strategy and execution. Yodeck helps retail organizations boost sales and customer engagement by offering easy-to-use digital signage solutions that attract foot traffic and drive impulse purchases.

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Rick Roman

Rick Roman serves as theater operator at Crowne Pointe Theatre in Elizabethtown, Ky. 

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Lachlan Ross

I’m a SAAS-focused marketer with 10+ years of experience who likes to think I’ve got a way with words - thanks for stopping by and checking out this blog.

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Abagael Rudock

Abagael Rudock is a marketing and sales consultant with diverse experiences in content creation and demand generation. Working across industries, she's helped drive new successes for sales teams and augmented marketing teams' content creation strategies. As part of the Synect team, Abagael is at the forefront of the industry's shift toward content-first strategy. Equal parts creative studio and solution provider, Synect partners with airports to implement new content strategies that solve operational challenges and enhance passenger experiences.

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Melissa Sanders

With over eight years of experience in the LED display industry, I've held roles in strategy, product management, sales operations and business development. I have a B.S. in Business Administration and Management from Western Oregon University.

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Nathalie Santarem

I'm a Business Development Manager EMEA at EMITY. After more than 20 years in IT, I've moved into AV sales at EMITY alongside resellers and integrators across EMEA. I speak 5 languages ( EN, FR, SP, PT, IT). My goal is simple: help partners bring new use cases to their customers and grow their business with them, from the first demo to the hundredth screen.

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Alberto Scirocco

A drive to create immersive and highly purposeful motion content has helped lead leftchannel to international recognition and acclaim, producing work for some of the world’s best known and most forward-thinking brands.
In addition to his role as creative lead for leftchannel, Alberto is a frequently featured speaker at design events worldwide. His expertise includes film, advertising, broadcast graphics, architecture, retail planning, digital installation, and environmental design.

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Alberto Scirocco

Alberto Scirocco has led leftchannel’s drive to create immersive and highly purposeful motion content, resulting in international recognition and acclaim and producing work for some of the world’s best known and most forward-thinking brands. In addition to his role as creative lead for leftchannel, Alberto is a frequently featured speaker at design events worldwide. His expertise includes film, advertising, broadcast graphics, architecture, retail planning, digital installation, and environmental design.

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Alberto Scirocco

A drive to create immersive and highly purposeful motion content has helped lead leftchannel to international recognition and acclaim, producing work for some of the world’s best known and most forward-thinking brands. In addition to his role as creative lead for leftchannel, Alberto is a frequently featured speaker at design events worldwide. His expertise includes film, advertising, broadcast graphics, architecture, retail planning, digital installation, and environmental design.

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Gino Sesto

Gino Sesto is founder and president of DASH TWO, a two-time OBIE-winning out-of-home and digital agency in Los Angeles that has run 20,000+ campaigns for music, entertainment, and consumer brands.

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Satyam Shakkarwal

Satyam Shakkarwal works in marketing at Wilyer, a digital signage software company in Gurugram, India, and writes about running screen networks in retail, restaurants and hospitals.

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Jason Shelton