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Over 20 years of transformational media, education, publishing and technology leadership. Ashley is Chief Operating Officer at Cambium Learning Group. Prior to joining Cambium in 2020, Ashley served as Chief Operating Officer, Co-President and Chief Marketing Officer at GreaterGood, a cause commerce, digital publisher and registered fundraiser for nonprofit programs in education, healthcare, conservation and animal rescue. Previously, Ashley served as Chief Content Officer for Capstone, a leading publisher of children's books, media, audio, digital solutions and services, literacy programs, and K-12 professional development resources for classrooms, school libraries and home. Before that, Ashley served as CEO, President and Publisher at Trudy Corporation, later Palm Publishing, responsible for the group's family of global children's imprints and media businesses. She has spent over 20 years in media, technology, publishing and retail for global consumers, education and nonprofits working in North America, Africa, Asia, Europe, the UK and South America.Ashley began her career as an elementary school classroom teacher and collegiate coach, igniting her passion for social impact. Since then, she has devoted her career to closing the opportunity gap and creating great outcomes in education through the power of social enterprise and innovation. She serves on the government affairs council of the SIIA and before that as as chair of the board of directors and executive committee member for the SIIA's Education Division and co-chair of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee. She is the co-founder and former co-president of the Fairfield University MFA Alumni Association and is the author of Now What? The Creative Writer’s Guide to Success After the MFA. Ashley holds a bachelor’s degree in education and a bachelor’s degree in English literature from the University of Michigan and teaching certifications K- 5 and 6 - 8. She also holds a Masters of Fine Arts in creative writing from Fairfield University with concentrations in fiction and screenwriting and certificates in media strategy from Harvard Business School; in executive function in the classroom from the Harvard Graduate School of Education; and in design thinking instruction from Ideo U.

Jeffrey Terry Green (born 1977) is an American billionaire businessman, who co-founded AdECN, a demand-side advertising platform, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2007. Following two years at Microsoft, Green left to co-found buy-side digital advertising platform The Trade Desk, of which he is chairman and CEO.

Jeremy Stoppelman (born November 10, 1977) is an American business executive. He is the CEO of Yelp, which he co-founded in 2004. Stoppelman obtained a bachelor's degree in computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1999. After briefly working for @Home Network, he worked at X.com and later became the VP of Engineering after the company was renamed PayPal. Stoppelman left PayPal to attend Harvard Business School. During a summer internship at MRL Ventures, he and others came up with the idea for Yelp Inc. He turned down an acquisition offer by Google and took the company public in 2012.

Frank Vella is a business leader equipped to navigate ever-changing market conditions, keeping his company ahead of the crowd with a demonstrated ability to capitalize on emerging opportunities. Over the past 30 years, he has relied on his strength as an operator to help build a lineup of first-rate businesses, displaying time and again both the soft and hard skills needed to drive real shareholder value. As CEO of Information Builders, a leader in business intelligence (BI), analytics, and data management solutions, Mr. Vella leads a workforce of more than a thousand people operating on six continents. Hired as COO in 2017, he promptly led a successful transformation effort across product, marketing, and sales. Today, he continues to bolster the company’s leadership position, defining the role of data and analytics for many Fortune 500 companies, and takes pride in the teams he has assembled and the considerable value those teams create. Mr. Vella’s track record in both venture-backed growth companies and large multinational organizations is unmatched. After a 10-year stay at Microsoft, he joined Quest Software where, as Global Sales leader, he drove significant organic growth. Following that success, he went to then-startup Virtustream as COO and helped lead the company from pre-revenue to $100 million, setting the stage for a $1.2 billion exit. More recently, he ran Global Sales and Field Operations at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Software where he led strategic sales direction and reconfigured the go-to-market model. Prior to joining Information Builders, he oversaw an enterprise expansion and aggressive growth strategy as Chief Revenue Officer at BlueJeans Network.

John Gentry is the president of OpenX. OpenX is the world’s leading independent provider of digital advertising technology that enables businesses to manage and maximize their ad revenue. A veteran technology and media industry executive, Gentry is responsible for operating the business and further accelerating OpenX's rapid trajectory, delivering revenue growth through sales, technology, and product innovation globally. He has oversight of OpenX's three core operating teams: business, engineering and product. Gentry brings to his position at OpenX nearly twenty years of experience in leadership roles at technology and media companies that have redefined advertising and commerce. Prior to OpenX, Gentry was president of Spot Runner, developer of the Malibu Media Platform, an online media exchange that simplifies the buying and selling of television media. Before Spot Runner, he was chief revenue officer of Green Dot (NYSE: GDOT), the pioneer and market leader in the prepaid debit card industry. Previously, Gentry was senior vice president and general manager of the Affiliate Business of Overture Services, Inc. (Overture), the originator of the paid search advertising model, now a key driver of the digital economy. Before Overture, Gentry was an executive at Disney/ABC Cable Networks and Discovery Communications. Gentry holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of California at Los Angeles and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Konrad Feldman, CEO, co-founded and launched Quantcast in 2006 along with Paul Sutter to transform the effectiveness of online advertising through the use of science and scalable computing. Prior to co-founding Quantcast, Feldman co-founded Searchspace (now Fortent) the leading provider of terrorist financing detection and anti-money laundering software for the world’s financial services industry. As CEO of Searchspace’s North American business, he established the business in the US and directed its rapid growth to become a market leader. Prior to Searchspace, Feldman was a Research Fellow in the Intelligent Systems Laboratory at University College London. Feldman holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from University College, London.

Mark Dillon heads Marketwired's global sales. Most recently he served as Vice President, Central Region for Conversant, Inc. leading to its $2.3 billion acquisition by Alliance Data (NYSE: ADS). Prior to Conversant, Mark was Senior Vice President of Sales and member of the executive team for quadrantONE, a joint venture of Gannett, Hearst, The New York Times Company and Tribune. He also served as SVP, Media Group at United Online where he was responsible for the advertising sales of Adcurate, Classmates, NetZero and Juno. Prior to UOL, Mark opened the Chicago and Detroit offices for Advertising.com, a division of AOL, where he was part of the sales management team that contributed to a six-fold increase in revenue and ultimately to the $497 million acquisition by AOL/Time Warner. He opened the Midwest and Southwest sales offices for Ziff-Davis's ZDNet, which grew revenue from zero to over $100 million in less than four years and led to the $1.7 billion acquisition of ZDNet by CNET Networks. Mark received his undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame and his MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.