Dave is the CEO and founder of Simulmedia. He previously founded and ran both TACODA, Inc., an online advertising company that pioneered behavioral online marketing and was acquired by AOL in 2007 for $275 million, and Real Media, Inc., one of the world’s first ad serving and online ad network companies and a predecessor to 24/7 Real Media (TFSM), which was later sold to WPP for $649 million. After the sale of TACODA, Dave served as Executive Vice President, Global Advertising Strategy, at AOL, a Time Warner Company (TWX).

A lawyer by training, Dave served as General Counsel and Director of New Media Ventures at the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association in the early 1990’s.

Mr. Morgan is a Political Science graduate of The Pennsylvania State University and holds a J.D. from the Dickinson School of Law. He is the former chairman and ex-officio member of the board of the International Radio and Television Society (IRTS) and currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Advertising Research Foundation. Mr. Morgan, his wife Lorea Canales, and their two daughters live in Manhattan.

Dave Morgan

Ms. Bright served as Executive Vice President of Human Resources and Administration at Sotheby’s from August 2017 until March 2020. At Sotheby’s, she led the HR and Administration functions internationally through the public company’s sale to BidFair USA for $3.7 billion. Prior to joining Sotheby’s, Ms. Bright served as Chief Administrative Officer at global architecture and design firm Gensler, overseeing Human Resources, Talent Development and Community Affairs. Ms. Bright spent more than twenty years at Condé Nast leading the Human Resources group for over a decade until her appointment as Chief Administrative Officer in 2010. Early in her career, Ms. Bright held senior human resources roles at American Express and Macy’s.

Ms. Bright has been a Board Director and Chair of the Compensation Committee for WOW Internet & Cable since 2017 and was recently named a Board Director for Michigan-based firm Service Express. She also served as a Board Director for Cumulus Media in 2017 and 2018 following her completion of the Deloitte Board-Ready-Women Program in Fall 2016.

Ms. Bright served as Mayor de Blasio’s Representative on the board of the New York Public Library from December 2017 to December 2019. In 2015, Ms. Bright was appointed by Mayor de Blasio to the Quadrennial Advisory Commission to study, evaluate and make recommendations for compensation levels of elected City Officials. She was also a member of the Alliance for Downtown New York in 2015-2016.

Ms. Bright completed her MBA at New York University’s Stern School of Business and received her bachelor’s degree from Marymount Manhattan College, where she is a former Board of Trustees member.

Jill Bright

Phil Guarascio has been the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of PG Ventures LLC since May 2000 where he serves as a marketing and advertising business consultant. He has been a consultant for the National Football League since October 2000 and has been a consultant for the William Morris Agency since October 2001.

For 16 years, Phil was with General Motors where he served as Vice President of Corporate Advertising and Marketing primarily responsible for worldwide advertising resource management, managing consolidated media placement and before that as General Manager of Marketing and Advertising for General Motors’ North American Operations. Phil introduced the GM Card and managed the General Motors corporate brand to a 20 percent increase in customer purchase consideration.

He joined General Motors in 1985 after 21 years with the New York advertising agency, D’Arcy, Masius, Benton & Bowles.

Phil currently serves as Chairman Emeritus at The Advertising Council, Inc. He was the Non-Executive Chairman of Arbitron Inc. from May 2009 until September of this year, when it was acquired by Nielsen. He has been an Independent Director of Arbitron Inc. since March 30, 2001. Phil also served on the Boards of Hot Jobs (sold to Yahoo), Snyder Communications (acquired by Havas), American Film Institute, and IAG, a research company sold to Nielsen.

Phil holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English at Marietta College in Ohio.

Phil Guarascio

Rich Levandov has over 25 years of experience as an entrepreneur, operator, angel investor and venture capitalist involving a variety of cutting-edge, high growth, early-stage technology companies. It was after he co-founded Phoenix Technologies (PTEC), a company that helped launch the PC revolution, and served as an early Vice President at America Online, Inc. that he started his venture capital career.

Rich holds a B.S. from Binghamton University. He codes in PHP and Ruby these days. Rich is active in the Boston, New York City and San Francisco venture and entrepreneurial communities. As a past judge on the MIT 100k business plan competition he remains very active in various organizations on both coasts promoting the creation of new disruptive enterprises.

Rich Levandov

David Levy is the co-CEO of Horizon Sports & Experiences. He was previously the founder of Back Nine Ventures, LLC, a sports consulting and investing firm, and the President of Turner, where he oversaw the company’s leading portfolio of domestic entertainment, kids and young adult networks and businesses, including TBS, TNT, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Boomerang, truTV and Turner Classic Movies (TCM). Levy took on executive oversight for increased investment in original premium content across the portfolio, contributing to 33 Emmy Award nominations for Turner in one year. 

Additionally, he led advertising sales strategy and operations, affiliate sales, programming acquisitions, marketing promotion, interactive television and technology business development for the domestic Turner businesses, as well as CNN and HLN’s ad sales and affiliate sales and Turner Sports’ programming acquisitions, production, marketing, league relations and sports ad sales.

Levy assumed leadership of Turner Sports in 2003 and had numerous accomplishments, including deepening and expanding Turner's media rights and defining the division via its association with premium sports content, brands, and events, including the NBA, Major League Baseball, PGA Tour, and orchestrating a landmark deal with the NCAA for Division 1 men's Basketball Championship (March Madness). Levy also led a significant expansion in digital media and new businesses designed to grow Turner's portfolio, including spearheading Turner's efforts in acquiring the Bleacher Report and the launch of Turner's first U.S. domestic subscription video-on- demand (SVOD) services.

Prior to serving as President of Turner, Levy was President of Sales, Distribution and Sports for the company. Under his leadership, the Turner ad sales division was consistently recognized as the leading television and digital sales organization. Clients acknowledged the division for its creativity in developing innovative and integrated sponsorship ideas across Turner’s vast portfolio of television, digital and mobile platforms that further drive value and exposure for advertising partners.

Levy, who has received numerous awards for his professional achievements during his career, was elected to the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame in 2012.

David Levy

Tad Smith was most recently the President and CEO of Sotheby’s from March 2015 until he sold it in 2019. Founded in 1744, Sotheby’s is a global company that operates at the intersection of commerce and fine art, jewelry, and collectibles. After repositioning the company’s strategy and reinventing Sotheby’s digitally, Tad sold the famous company for $3.7 billion, which was 17.7x EBITDA and a 61% premium over the prior day’s trading price.

Mr. Smith went to Sotheby’s from another publicly-held company, The Madison Square Garden Company, where he also served as President and CEO. He led MSG in overall strategy and day-to-day operations for its iconic venues including “the world’s most famous arena” and Radio City Music Hall in New York, the “Fabulous” Forum in Los Angeles, the Wang Theatre in Boston and the Chicago Theatre; MSG’s high-profile sports teams including the New York Knicks, Rangers and Liberty, and the Hartford Wolf Pack,; entertainment properties such as the Radio City Christmas Spectacular and the New York Spring Spectacular both featuring the world famous Rockettes; and the leading regional sports networks in the United States (MSG and MSG+).

Prior to joining Madison Square Garden Company, Mr. Smith was President, Local Media at Cablevision Systems Corporation, where his responsibilities ranged from overseeing and growing News 12 Networks (the tri-state area leader in local cable news), to the leading daily newspapers Newsday on Long Island, and amNewYork, the widely circulated free daily. He was also responsible for restoring growth to Cablevision Media Sales by launching and scaling the use of set top box data to drive the company’s advanced television business to a leadership position within the industry.

Previously, Mr. Smith was at Reed Elsevier Group PLC, a worldwide provider of business information, where he was most recently CEO of its U.S. business-to-business division, Reed Business Information (RBI). He had responsibility there for Variety, Interior Design, Publishers Weekly, Multichannel News, Reed Construction Data, BuyerZone and many other print, data, and internet businesses. Before joining Reed Elsevier in 2000, he was an Internet executive at Starwood Hotels and Resorts, a corporate executive in New York and London for music company BMG Entertainment, and an advisor to companies on strategy and performance improvement in McKinsey & Company’s Los Angeles office. He began his career out of college at JP Morgan & Company and then the Rockefeller Foundation, and he was also the former chief of staff of the New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission.

Mr. Smith received a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School where he was a George F. Baker Scholar and a Horace W. Goldsmith Fellow. He received a Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs, where he received the R.W. Van de Velde Award. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Stern School of Business at New York University, where he has taught the popular course Strategy and Finance for Entertainment, Media, and Technology Companies to more than 1,200 students since 1999. He serves on numerous industry and nonprofit boards and advisory boards. Mr. Smith resides in Palm Beach, Florida and has an apartment in New York City.

Tad Smith

Jon Steinlauf, Chief U.S. Advertising Sales Officer for Warner Bros. Discovery,  brings a wealth of invaluable television advertising experience to Simulmedia’s Board of Directors.

At WBD, Jon oversees one of the largest, most diverse and premium video ad portfolios in the U.S., including Discovery, HGTV, TBS, TNT, Adult Swim, CNN, Turner Sports, Discovery+ and HBO Max.

Prior to being appointed to his current role in 2022, Jon served as Chief U.S. Advertising Sales Officer at Discovery, where he managed sales, developed new and convergent revenue streams, as well as oversaw research, marketing and branded entertainment, pricing and planning, and inventory control. 

Before joining Discovery in 2018, Jon served as President of Advertising Sales at Scripps Networks, successfully elevating Scripps Networks’ reputation with advertisers for being the most upscale cable network group with the most engaged viewers in all of cable. 

Jon also served as Vice President of Advertising Sales for Turner Broadcasting’s TBS and TNT networks (1992-2000) and Director of Advertising Sales at ESPN (1985-89). He began his career as a media buyer at Young & Rubicam. 

Jon has been named six times to Adweek’s “Adweek 50,” an honor that the publication bestows on the top business leaders in advertising and media. He is a graduate of Duke University.

Jon Steinlauf

Brady has over 20 years of experience as a venture capitalist and operating executive in both information technology and biotech. His focus is on early-stage investments and backing talented entrepreneurs.

Previously, he served as a general partner of Masthead Venture Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm that he co-founded in 1997. Prior to Masthead, Brady served as President and COO of Watson Technologies, a venture-capital-backed, privately held telecommunications hardware company, and prior to that, he was the CFO of Alpha-Beta Technology, a publicly held biotechnology company.

Throughout his venture capital career, he has worked with over 75 companies. He currently is a director or observer of many Avalon portfolio companies, including Backupify, Chart.io, Cloudant, Inc., Conjur, Indix, Juliet Marine Systems, Kaltura, Kinvey, Memrise, Nanigans, Pingup, Redbooth, Selectable Media, Simulmedia, The Happy Cloud, Twinstrata and Vook.

Brady holds a B.S. in Finance from Babson College. He is often known by his portfolio companies and peers alike for his leadership and hands-on approach. Brady is passionate about helping companies with all aspects of their growth, from corporate strategy to development, M&A, fundraising, and core operating matters.

Brady Bohrmann

Brad Burnham is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures. He started working in information technology with AT&T in 1979. Brad spun Echo Logic out of Bell Laboratories in 1989 and joined AT&T Ventures in 1993. Brad co-founded TACODA in 2001 before joining Fred to create Union Square Ventures in 2003. Brad majored in political science at Wesleyan University. He is married with two kids and lives in New York City.

Brad Burnham

Dave Morgan is the CEO and founder of Simulmedia. He previously founded and ran both TACODA, Inc., an online advertising company that pioneered behavioral online marketing and was acquired by AOL in 2007 for $275 million, and Real Media, Inc., one of the world’s first ad serving and online ad network companies and a predecessor to 24/7 Real Media (TFSM), which was later sold to WPP for $649 million. After the sale of TACODA, Dave served as Executive Vice President, Global Advertising Strategy, at AOL, a Time Warner Company (TWX).

Dave is a Political Science graduate of The Pennsylvania State University and holds a J.D. from the Dickinson School of Law. Dave, his wife Lorea Canales, and their two daughters live in Manhattan.

, a French show about their intelligence service, available on the Sundance Channel

Favorite snack when watching TV or out at the movies:

 Qaulitas of Life Foundation, which provides financial education to immigrants.

What causes do you support in your community:

 I support environmental protection in the western Catskills.

The skill I have that might surprise people:

 I used to be able to keg walk for several hundred yards at a time around obstacles.

Helping raise amazing daughters who are as American-Mexican as they are Mexican-American.

Kyle Hubert is Chief Technology Officer at Simulmedia. He assumed this position in January 2018, having previously served as Chief Scientist, Director of Engineering R&D, and Principal Data Architect, working to bring cutting edge methodologies to TV advertising. He focuses on scalable architecture and innovative modeling for the company’s growing needs. Kyle joined Simulmedia from Cray, Inc. where he had been a Software Engineer since 2003. There he worked on custom tech used for Massively Parallel Processing applications in the High Performance Computing domain, running in many top super computers in the world. Kyle holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from SUNY at Oswego (NY).

 As my children say, there are too many awesome games to name favorites (though 

The skills or interests I have that might surprise people:

 Cooking, eating, drinking, acting, playing, and living!

Kyle Hubert

Jon Werther is the Chief Operating Officer for Simulmedia. He previously served as President and as Chief Revenue Officer between 2010-2012.

Previously, Jon served as Executive Vice President, Strategic Partnerships & New Business Development for the Professional Fighters League (PFL), where he led international expansion efforts and new business initiatives for the rapidly growing sports league. 

Prior to that, Mr. Werther held multiple positions at Meredith Corporation, including President, National Media Group; Executive Vice President, National Media Group; President, Meredith Digital; and Chief Strategy Officer. He also led Consumer Marketing efforts for all National Media Group brands.

Before his time at Meredith and his first stint at Simulmedia, Mr. Werther spent more than ten years in a variety of executive positions at Time Warner and its AOL division.

Jon started his career as an Associate at Arnold & Porter, LLP, in Washington, D.C. He holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, a J.D. from the George Washington University Law School, and a B.A. from Emory University.

Favorite snack when watching TV or out at the movies: 

 Playing sports and traveling internationally

Jon Werther

Dave Madden is the President & CRO of Simulmedia and President of PlayerWON®. PlayerWON® is the first engagement and monetization platform for Free to Play console and PC video games, and EVP, Gaming and OTT for Simulmedia. He is responsible for extending the company’s advertising platform into console/PC video games and OTT platforms. Prior to joining Simulmedia, Dave was the SVP of Global Brand Partnerships at Electronic Arts. In his role with EA, he led the teams that managed all aspects of the game publisher’s sponsorships, in-game advertising solutions and brand partnerships, across mobile, PC, console and esports on a global basis, beginning in 2011. Before EA, Dave was a founding member and EVP of WildTangent, an innovative online games platform company. While at WildTangent, he and his team developed the first “rewarded ad” in video games, BrandBoost, which became the default ad model for mobile video games today. Earlier in his career, Dave was in health and sports publishing with Rodale Press.

A graduate of Princeton University, with a B.A. in History, Dave has done several rotations on the Board of Directors of the IAB and MMA, and also sits on the advisory board of the M-School at Loyola Marymount University.

Harbor Interfaith Services, which empowers the homeless and working poor in San Pedro, CA to achieve self-sufficiency.

Competing in the first year of the Leadville Trail 100 mountain bike race in Colorado.

Dave Madden

Pravin Chandramani is Senior Vice President of Business Development at Simulmedia. A zoologist, behavioral biologist and ad tech entrepreneur, Pravin led data strategy at TACODA and AOL Advertising where he was responsible for developing the audience acquisition and valuation strategy for their digital ad targeting solutions. From 1998 to 2004, Pravin was a technologist focused on new media and Customer Relationship Management, leading projects in vertical publishing and advertising networks. Pravin holds an M.B.A. from the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia, an M.S. in Biological Sciences from Fordham University and a B.S. in Zoology from the University of Bombay. For his Master’s thesis, Pravin spent two years observing and analyzing social interactions in baboons. Pravin lives in New York City.

Pravin Chandiramani

Erica Meyer is the Senior Vice President of Operations & Client Success. She joined Simulmedia in March 2019, serving first as Vice President, Account Management, and leading the larger Account Management team in offering strategy and insights to maximize marketers’ TV campaigns.

Prior to Simulmedia, Erica honed her media buying skills at Midas Exchange, WPP’s corporate trading arm and sister company of GroupM, negotiating schedules across nearly every client category over her nine-year stint. She has a BA in Chemistry as well as an MBA concentrating in Marketing & Leadership from Binghamton University.

Favorite snacks when watching TV or out at the movies:

 Smartfood white cheddar popcorn and white cheddar Cheetos Puffs

 Justifi, which sponsors trips allowing young professionals to spend their vacation time volunteering on important projects in local communities around the world.

 iMentor, a non-profit organization that partners high school students with mentors.

 Singing (I sang in chorus and a cappella groups throughout school and post-graduation).

Erica Meyer

Steve Paule is the Senior Vice President of Product Management for Simulmedia. Prior to joining the company in 2021, Steve worked in product management at FreeWheel where he led teams to build programmatic technology for the Connected TV, OTT, and Premium Video advertising ecosystem. Prior to that, he worked in solutions consulting at AppNexus. Steve started his career within technology teams at IBM and Deutsche Bank.

Steve holds a B.A. in Computer Science from the University of Oxford and currently resides in New York City.

Super Mario Bros. 3, Shenmue, Rollercoaster Tycoon, Resident Evil 3

, dedicated to addressing isolation and hunger among seniors

 Big Brothers Big Sisters NYC, whose vision is that all youth should be able to achieve their full potential

 Learning about different cultures through travel and food; walking around cities; strength and boxing training

Steve Paule

Juliette Dupré is VP, People & Culture at Simulmedia. She has 15 years of experience in human resources and organization development in the technology and digital entertainment industries. Juliette was previously the Head of People for esports organization Andbox and, prior to that, for video game publisher Tilting Point Media. She currently serves as strategic advisor for game development consulting group Tiny Hydra.

Originally a litigation paralegal in product liability and employment law, Juliette began her career at the McGlinchey Stafford law firm in 2004, where she later became the Director of Legal Recruiting. She moved into games and entertainment in 2011 by joining mobile games developer and publisher Gameloft as Lead Recruiter. She also helped build and grow teams as the Senior Talent Manager for food tech startup Plated (acquired by Albertson's) and Global HRBP for short-form video entertainment app TikTok (under ByteDance). 

Juliette graduated from Tulane University with a Bachelor’s degree (cum laude top of class) in Social Science and Paralegal Studies in 2007. She also earned a Master of Science in Organizational Change Management 2020 while on merit scholarship. Juliette lives in Manhattan where she loves to game, study martial arts, read about leadership and management, and watch movies and TV. 

 I’m obsessed with movie theater popcorn.

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The skill I have that might surprise people: 

I meditate daily. I'm also a former classical ballet dancer and maintain my certified teacher status with American Ballet Theatre. These days. I spend most of my time training in Hong Kong-style wing tsun kung fu at 

 cards, and comics because New York apartments are tiny! Now my scant spare time is all about video games, movies and TV.

A paper on leadership that I wrote passed peer review for journal publication. Separately, I also passed an intense sparring and knowledge test for wing tsun. I got hit in the face, but I passed!

Juliette Dupré

Victor Hurdugaci is the VP of Engineering for PlayerWON

, the first engagement and monetization platform for Free to Play console and PC video games. He joined Simulmedia in 2019 as the company’s first Seattle-based employee and founded the Seattle office. Before that, he was at Electronic Arts, where co-created EA's virtual economies services and worked on well-known video game titles such as 

Victor began his career as a developer in Romania. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from Delft University of Technology.

 At one of the Seattle COVID vaccination clinics.

 I build terrain for tabletop and RPG games.

 Video games, tabletop games, cooking, and CrossFit.

Victor Hurdugaci 

Jenn Mancini is the Vice President of Growth & Games for Simulmedia and PlayerWON®. Before joining the company in 2021, Jenn worked at Twitch, an Amazon Company, where she led the sales strategy to grow video game endemic brands on the live streaming platform. Before that, she led teams and the online video sales strategy at various YouTube MCNs (Multi-Channel Networks) such as Machinima, acquired by WarnerMedia, and Maker Studios, acquired by Disney. Jenn started her career within the online media planning team at OgilvyOne Worldwide.

Jenn holds a double B.A. in Theatre and Political Science from Ithaca College and currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.

Popcorn with a lot of salt and melted butter

, dedicated to to helping homeless lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer (LGBTQ*) youth and young adults in New York City safely transition out of the shelter system and grow into independent, positive and productive adults.

Activities I participate in to benefit my community:

 Co-founded a women+ organization (WxG) to help video game industry professionals network and discuss topics in the business along with building more diversity within the industry.

Studying languages; international travel; playing video games; playing guitar; hiking.

Jenn Mancini 

Carly McConnell is the Vice President of Marketing at Simulmedia. Prior to joining Simulmedia, Carly oversaw a product marketing team at LiveRamp focused on bringing new products and solutions to market across brand, agency and technology verticals. Before LiveRamp, Carly spent nearly a decade working in various marketing functions for some of the largest global advertisers, including IBM, American Express and Samsung. She has always had a passion for advertising and audience-centric marketing.

Carly received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Bucknell University. She lives in Westchester with her husband and young daughter.

A glass of Cabernet and a bowl of cookie dough ice cream.

 Foundation, a nonprofit organization that provides support for families of fallen heroes.

I volunteer with a few local organizations serving underprivileged youth. I love young children and want to help make sure all children, regardless of their background, are set up to thrive.

I absolutely love cooking (and eating) spicy food. When it comes to cooking, I gravitate towards Italian and Mexican cuisine.

I love to travel, cook, explore my creative side through interior decor, and play racket sports.

I am proud of the confident, chatty little girl that my daughter is growing into.

Carly McConnell

Lori O’Connor is Vice President, General Management - Entertainment at Simulmedia, where she has overseen the growth of the company’s entertainment vertical and has led its efforts to develop and offer a best-in-class cross-channel TV advertising solution for networks, studios, streaming services and more.

Prior to joining Simulmedia, Ms. O’Connor held a number of positions with TV Guide Magazine ending with Publisher where she pushed “traditional” print advertising boundaries by creating engaging, organic experiences for advertisers and readers and where she worked closely with television marketers such as ABC, CBS, FOX, NBCU, Turner and many more. Earlier, Ms. O’Connor was with Golf For Women and MediZine.

Ms. O’Connor began her career on the agency side including stints at Grey Advertising and Draft FCB working on P&G and PepsiCo among others. She holds a B.S. in Advertising from Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.


Activity I participate in to help my community:

The skills I have that might surprise people:

 Baking and singing (sometimes simultaneously)

Lori O'Connor

Adam Quinn is VP, Sales and Strategic Accounts. He rejoined Simulmedia in July of 2019 after a previous two-year stint at Simulmedia from 2014 through 2016 as a Sr. Account Executive and Director of Sales.

Adam’s media career includes five years on the media buying side of the business placing national TV buys for Apple, Sony PlayStation, Levi’s, and the Eli Lilly pharmaceutical company. He seamlessly moved to sales at ESPN in 2003, eventually covering all mass reach properties at ESPN including Digital, Print, and TV. Adam continued a successful sales career with roles at Google, Turner Sports, and most recently led Digital and Social partnerships at National Geographic where he helped build the revenue model and drive sales for the most followed brand in social media.

My family. And twice leading a team to run The Relay in Northern California to raise money for people who need organ transplants/donations.

Adam Quinn

Marc Siegel is Vice President, Sales & Strategic Accounts at Simulmedia. He assumed this position in July 2016, having previously served as Senior Director, Sales since 2013. Marc joined Simulmedia from U.S. News & World Report, where he was VP of Advertising. He generated year-over-year double-digit advertising growth, and helped transition the business from traditional print to a standalone digital publisher. Previously, Marc spent over seven years at media agencies Carat, MediaCom, and MediaVest where he worked on blue-chip clients such as Pfizer, Coca-Cola, and 3M. He is a graduate of Williams College and before he embarked on his media career, he played professional hockey for the Pittsburgh Penguins and Detroit Red Wings’ minor league affiliates.

 Golfing; watching my boys play sports; live music.

I was an ice hockey All American at Williams College and a pro goaltender in the AHL, ECHL and WPHL.

Marc Siegel

Clifford Thifault is Vice President, Finance - Controller at Simulmedia. He joined the company in 2021 with an industry background that includes advertising agency, talent representation and public accounting experience.

Clifford started his career at IPG (Hill Holliday), and has Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Accounting. He is a certified public accountant.

Charities more people should know about: 

Clifford Thifault

Vineet is the VP of Engineering at Simulmedia. He joined Simulmedia in 2015 as a Senior Data Engineer and spent his time developing the data-driven linear TV advertising solutions. He is responsible for leading the engineering team and driving innovation in the development of cutting-edge cross-channel advertising technology solutions. Prior to Simulmedia, Vineet honed his data engineering skills at Sapient Global Markets and Infosys Technologies building large-scale data warehouse and reporting solutions for Investment Banking and Financial Services companies. Vineet began his career as a software developer in India. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology from A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University, India.

 It's a tie between Game of Thrones and Breaking Bad 

 Age of Empires, Super Mario Bros, Grand Theft Auto

CRY India, which helps underprivileged children go to school 

 Latest one is singing nursery rhymes to my 3 month old daughter. I also enjoy gardening, traveling and reading.

Vineet Gupta

Alex Papiu is the Chief Scientist at Simulmedia. He began his journey at the company in 2017, building ML-based forecasting models. He leads the Science team focusing on developing cutting-edge optimization and measurement solutions for cross-channel and CTV advertising. 

Alex holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Washington University in St. Louis, where he studied the combinatorial structure of high-dimensional polyhedra. After graduating, he completed a data science fellowship at Insight. Alex is originally from Romania and resides in New York City.

Mau of Bastet, a Romanian organization caring for unowned cats.

Alex Papiu

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