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Dan Weiden is a CEO at Wieden + Kennedy.

For the past 20 years, Eric Ayzenberg has been a key player in shaping the direction of video game advertising, integrated marketing, and social digital presence, creating innovative marketing solutions for some of the biggest names in the video game, toy, theatrical, communication and consumer electronic businesses. Eric was born in the Soviet Union, raised on the mean streets of Brooklyn, and educated at Pratt Institute and Art Center College of Design. He is now lucky enough to work and live with his wife Carol and their two daughters in the land of perpetual sunshine. Eric began his career in New York, mastering his craft with stints at ABC, NBC and R/GA. In 1984, he moved to Los Angeles to join Chiat/Day as an art director. Two years later he co-founded Paragon Ad & Design where he applied his talents to advertising for Universal Studios, L.A. Gear and Interplay. In 1993 he founded Ayzenberg Group with the vision of building an agency operating on the cutting edge of web-based technology. As a pioneer in creating strategy and advertising for interactive entertainment companies, Eric led the way in Internet-based innovation for his agency and his clients. In 1997, Ayzenberg became one of the first agencies to create its own website and extranet. That same year, it developed some of the first portals for video game clients. In the years that followed, the agency created result-driven, award-winning online, broadcast and print advertising as well as media solutions, websites and mobile applications for a wide range of companies and brands. Among them were Electronic Arts, Disney Interactive, Microsoft Xbox, Konami, Warner Brothers, Namco Bandai, Capcom and Sony Online Entertainment. Since its founding, Ayzenberg has grown to be one of the largest independent advertising agencies on the US West Coast. Continuing the spirit of innovation that has fostered his company's success, Eric launched the agency's Social Media and Mobile Division in 2007, and the Original Entertainment Content group in 2011.

Thomas Sanchez is CEO and co-founder of Social Driver, a digital agency that uses groundbreaking strategies for social media, websites, digital marketing, and advocacy. The firm’s client experience includes leading corporate and nonprofit brands such as Honda, Target, Cigna, and the American Hospital Association.Social Driver's mantra captures its mission and values: “We believe the future is bright, all progress is social, and the drivers make history.” Under Thomas’s leadership, the agency’s collaborative culture and cutting-edge strategies have received wide acclaim, including the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce’s Supplier of the Year award, Minority Business 100 awards, and a Best and Brightest Company award.Thomas has completed two Harvard Business School Executive Education programs, and another at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Thomas was recently selected by the Financial Times as one of the top LGBT executives in the world, alongside Jim Fitterling, CEO, The Dow Chemical Company, and Peter Arvai, CEO and co-founder, Prezi. Thomas has been credited as one of the “most innovative people in Washington, DC” (DCInno) and a top “minority business leader” (Washington Business Journal), but his passion for entrepreneurship began humbly, growing up on a farm in Missouri, where he learned valuable lessons that helped him launch a successful technology career and grow as an entrepreneur. Thomas’s passion for social impact led him to launch The Driver Foundation, a philanthropic fund focused on youth and diversity. He serves on the Board of The Trevor Project, the national nonprofit providing suicide prevention services to LGBTQ youth. The Mayor of the District of Columbia appointed him as Chair of The Innovation Technology and Inclusion Council where he advises the Mayor and the public on ways in which to grow the District's innovation and tech-economy. He also serves on the Foundation Board of his alma mater Northwest Missouri State University.