As CEO of Yahoo, Jim Lanzone oversees a global media and tech company that reaches nearly 900 million people around the world and is the third largest property on the Internet. He is focused on delivering trusted products, content and tech across finance, sports, news, entertainment, search and communications. Yahoo also provides a full-stack platform for businesses to amplify growth and drive more meaningful connections across advertising, search and media.

Jim draws from over 20 years of leadership and entrepreneurial experience in the technology and media space, driving growth and innovation. He is the former CEO of Tinder, the world’s most popular app for meeting new people. Tinder has been downloaded by more than 400 million people and is available in 190 countries and 40+ languages.

Prior to Tinder, Jim spent a decade as President and CEO of CBS Interactive, a top 10 global Internet company with brands ranging from CBS All Access to CNET. He joined CBS Interactive in 2011 when CBS Corporation purchased Cicker Media, an Internet video search and programming guide, where he was founder and CEO.

Before founding Clicker, Jim served as CEO of Ask.com (formerly Ask Jeeves), a top 10 consumer Internet property and leading search engine owned by IAC/InterActiveCorp

Jim holds a B.A. from UCLA and a J.D./M.B.A. from Emory University.

Iván Markman, Chief Business Officer at Yahoo, oversees the unit’s B2B business. He leads the unit’s efforts to create more meaningful and valuable relationships between consumers, publishers, and marketers. Iván brings over 20 years of strategic and operational experience in Ad & Marketing technology, and a strong passion for transforming businesses.

Elizabeth is a transformational, strategic leader with over 25 years of experience in sales, marketing and management, who has driven record growth and profitability at Yahoo in her tenure as its head of revenue. Overseeing $5 billion in revenue and a team of more than 1700 people around the world, she has championed client-first strategies to create holistic solutions that drive performance. Partnering with major players across industries, her organization has more than tripled its multi-dimensional business partnerships.

To achieve these impressive gains, she has focused on elevating the voice of the customer in myriad ways, including strengthening Yahoo’s advisory councils to hear directly from brand and agency leaders and realigning her own organization to match evolving client needs.

She has found great success in this ever-evolving media business due to her genuine fascination with and appreciation for how change happens -- in our industry, and as a result for Yahoo’s teams and its leaders. Recognizing what’s important as the landscape shifts, getting people on board with the strategy for what to do and engaging in enough detail to help people see how to move forward are among her unique talents. She sees the constant change as a real benefit of the media industry, keeping things vital and challenging us all to continue to learn and grow.

Elizabeth is a tireless advocate for Diversity, Equality & Inclusion, spearheading several of Yahoo’s industry-recognized initiatives for racial equality, and is passionate about elevating those issues within her team and her clients. Among her many business successes, she counts her legacy of supporting and championing women in the workplace her greatest accomplishment.

Prior to joining Yahoo, Elizabeth held key roles at Snap, Inc., including Head of Global Strategic Partnerships and Head of East Coast Ad Sales. Before Snap, Elizabeth served as the EVP of Ad Sales Strategy at Viacom. Throughout her career, Elizabeth has also held leadership positions at MAGNA Global, 20th Television (a division of 20th Century Fox), Starcom Worldwide, Universal Television and Fox, after starting her career at CBS.

She serves as a member of the Board of The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition; on the Mobile Marketing Association Global Board of Directors (formerly North American Board); the Ad Council Board of Directors; the Female Quotient Advisory Board; as a Council Member of Digital Ascendant; and on the IAB CRO Council.

Elizabeth is a graduate of Harvard University, with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology.

As Vice President of Marketing at Yahoo, Jen loves telling tech stories without the geek-speak. Jen joined Yahoo in 2020 and brings 24+ years of marketing experience to her role; having led successful growth initiatives in advertising technology at Criteo and Innovid and across global brands such as Qualcomm, T-Mobile, Microsoft and Intel. In addition to B2B marketing, Jen has driven key consumer strategic initiatives and integrated marketing campaigns for Office 365, Windows Phone and T-Mobile flagship devices.

Jen hails from Alaska. She is a member of the ANA CMO Growth Council and has recently spoken at the Globalfoundries Women's Summit, Innovate@UCLA, GalesNGear Global Tech Summit and the Stanford’s Continuing Studies program. When Jen isn’t busy driving new initiatives at Yahoo, she cultivates the advancement and professional development of the women within the tech industry. Jen was a 2021 AdColor judge in the “Change Agent” category. Outside of the Yahoo walls, Jen can be found perfecting her downward-facing dog, hitting the slopes and shamelessly scraping out the last few bites of Talenti Peanut Butter Fudge gelato.

Alicin Reidy Williamson is a global diversity and strategy executive. She has had a career in the entertainment, sports, fashion, political, and non-profit fields focusing on inclusion, strategic communications, and stakeholder engagement. Her experience includes being a Managing Principal at strategic policy firm, The Raben Group, SVP of Public Affairs and Corporate Responsibility for MTV Networks and Viacom, Chief Inclusion Officer at Endeavor and she now serves as Chief Diversity and Culture Officer at Yahoo!.

In her current role, Alicin leads global diversity and inclusion, employee engagement and culture for the company. Her work at Endeavor included internally guiding leadership, recruiting and retention and strategic partnerships. In her partnerships, she developed the external relationships that have increased Endeavor’s diversity footprint as a thought leader in this space. Alicin’s partnerships with various company events have helped diversify interested parties and revenue streams. In April of 2020, Alicin was tapped to lead the company’s Return To Office Working Group leaning into her strategy background. She sits across several cross functional company architecture groups.

Alicin built her career fostering public affairs and corporate social responsibilities initiatives. She served as a Senior VP at MTV Networks and Viacom where she created the company’s Corporate Responsibility and Public Affairs department and helped build the Office of Global Inclusion to increase company visibility in communities and aid diversity recruitment efforts. Alicin also partnered with Viacom Government Affairs, building coalitions between advocacy groups and corporate relations in support of the company’s legislative agenda and oversaw employee engagement. As a program director and Senior Program Officer at The Fund for the City of New York, Alicin provided technical assistance and capacity building to city agencies and non-profit youth serving organizations. Alicin was an adjunct professor of Corporate Responsibility at NYU’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.

Alicin has been recognized with a commendation from the City of New York for women’s leadership, induction to the YWCA Academy of Women Leaders, and a “Woman of Influence” award from Essence Magazine and several recognitions from the cable and telecommunications industry. Alicin served on the board executive committees of the New York Urban League, Food Research and Action Center and as board chair of All Souls School. She was also previously on the board of NAMIC and the USO.

Alicin currently sits as a board member of The Dalton School, She Should Run, March on Washington Film Festival and is an advisor for the Council on Juvenile and Family Court Judges and chairs a joint collaboration of veteran service organizations, Hire Heroes and Operation Homefront.

Paul has over 22 years experience in media across the UK and Australia. Paul leads Yahoo’s portfolio of digital media and technology brands across Australia, New Zealand, India and Southeast Asia.

With a personal passion to ‘move the world forward for good’ he has transformed the business’ CSR program and embedded social responsibility into the company’s fabric, all while achieving record commercial results and employee engagement results.

Earlier this year Paul was appointed a board member of Australia’s media/marketing industry social purpose organisation, UnLtd, following several years of active involvement. Additionally as a board member of the IAB, he influences digital standards and trends that shape the media industry.

In Simon’s role as VP Exchange and Supply International - he leads sales efforts to Buyers (Advertisers, Agencies and Independents), Bidders and Publishers working with Yahoo Exchanges, working with teams cross EMEA, APAC, LATAM and Canada to deliver the benefits of working with our unified stack. Prior to Yahoo, Simon worked at Microsoft and a number of Media buying agencies and Sales Houses/Networks.

Simon is a former Chair of IAB Europe's Programmatic Trading Committee EMEA, and has been involved in the programmatic industry since 2011.

Mark leads the RYOT Studio team, a division of the Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning RYOT business, across Yahoo’s International markets.

RYOT Studio is focused on creating original, immersive experiences that push the envelope through innovative formats. Leveraging their seat at the intersection of technology and storytelling, RYOT is leading the next-generation of content production using XR, and have launched the world’s first 5G-enabled studios in Los Angeles and London.

Mark's background includes a Master's in International Economics & Finance, where he focused on mobile technology, as well as more than 10 years experience in digital content and advertising.

Gisele Alves is the head of Integrated B2B Global Marketing for Yahoo. She is a global marketing executive with over 20 years of experience, with a successful track record leading global marketing teams in various industries, including advertising, technology, entertainment, transportation, logistics and banking.

A Brazilian living in NY, proud mom of 2, curious non-stop learner and passionate about the unknown. She believes that diversity of thought, geography and expertise enables new ways of thinking, innovation, and ultimately - scalable growth. Her purpose is to provoke transformation and lead the change with a customer driven lens, to reimagine how a business can be transformed, like a canvas waiting for new colors.

John is an experienced digital advertising expert who has spent the last 15 years immersed in the world of advertising data and technology. In his current role as Director of Platforms he looks after the demand-side and supply-side technology underpinning Yahoo’s suite of products across ANZ. John sits on the IAB Executive Technology Council and is a leading expert in programmatic advertising and its evolution.

Dan Richardson is an expert in translating the complex world of data into a graspable, captivating narrative. He leads data & insights at Yahoo and holds invaluable experience in developing audience insights, segmentation, testing and implementation strategies.

Dan is currently co-chair of the IAB Australia’s Data Council, leading the organisation’s data transparency initiatives, and serves on the IAB New Zealand Standards and Measurement Council. He’s spoken at countless industry events on the future of Dan has also served as a board director for the International Advertising Association and as president of the IAA's Young Professionals.

Roger Li joined Yahoo, a media and tech brand for more than 10 years. With his strong expertise in technology, he is in-charged with the responsibility to bring cutting edge interactive technology to Yahoo ad solutions so to maximize client’s campaign performance.

Roger was the founding team leader in setting up the pan-APAC Advertising Technology unit and leading the operations across Yahoo Asia Pacific offices in Hong Kong, Taiwan, India and Singapore. As the senior director of Yahoo Creative Studio, Roger Li oversees a team of creative technology talents to set company-wide ad specifications and standards to facilitate ad creative operations and reduce technical frictions in campaign operations. The team is also in charge of driving development of new creative solutions, providing sales engineering services and supporting partner integration of ad solutions from Yahoo.

Prior to joining Yahoo, Roger had an engineering position in a government funded new media company, where he spent 6 years on various projects with extensive effort in developing interactive media and applications for education purposes. During the tenure, Roger was the lead of software engineers for the interactive portal that was later adopted by all primary schools in Hong Kong.

Roger earned a bachelor's degree in Information Engineering and a master’s degree in New Media from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is also a member of the Video Committee at the IAB Hong Kong (Interactive Advertising Bureau) since 2018.

Since joining Yahoo Hong Kong in 2004, Tania has delivered a unique blend of executive acumen with regional and local strategic marketing planning and execution, and has been credited with strong ROI and operational improvement at Yahoo. Tania is a seasoned marketing professional with over 19 years of solid experience in agency and industry work.

As Senior Director of Marketing & Communications, Tania oversees the company’s brand and public relations strategy and business and consumer marketing programs, as well as implementing strategic insights to achieve business objectives. In parallel, she also took on the role of regional marketing leadership and led the teams across APAC to deliver regional projects.

Her outstanding performance has helped her achieve prominence in the eminent 30th HKMA/TVB Distinguished Marketing Leadership Awards 2015 and with the HKMA Professional Manager designation in 2016. She is the first Internet marketing professional to have won this exceptional individual recognition in 30 years. Tania has also received 12 notable Yahoo Awards during her tenure – including the prestigious Yahoo Global Super Star Individual Award in 2016 with highest honor.

Under Tania’s leadership, Yahoo Hong Kong has gained numerous accolades from the industry including the HKMA Marketing Excellence Awards, Marketing Magazine’s Digital Media of the Year, ROI Festival Awards Greater China, the Spark Awards, the Marketing Events Awards among others. Yahoo continues to be the top beloved internet brand in Asia’s Top 1000 Brands since inception.

Tania was a scholarship student, gaining a B.A. in Economics from the University of British Columbia, Canada. In her spare time, as well as being an Internet fanatic, she is also a keen hiker, scuba diver and paddler.

Anna possesses over 20 years of advertising and digital marketing experience in the APAC region.

She rejoined Dentsu HK in June 2021 to become the CEO for Media Line of Business. Prior to rejoining the company, she was the Business Lead for HSBC account and led HSBC Wealth and Personal Banking (WPB) and Commercial Banking (CMB) performance, media innovation and partnership agenda in the APAC region.

Previously at Dentsu, Anna worked as Regional Managing Director, Amnet Asia, responsible for spearheading the trading desk initiative within the Group, which includes setting up Amnet offices across Asia; acting as Programmatic advocate for all agency brands; playing the role of educator and specialist in audience targeting and performance marketing
for clients.

Apart from her experience at Dentsu, Anna also held senior management roles at other companies - Managing Director of HK, Singapore & Taiwan at iClick Interactive, Chief Digital Officer at Leo Burnett, Head of Search, APAC at Universal McCann.

Outside work, Anna is a Life Coach and a member of International Coaching Federation (ICF). Currently he is volunteering to do coaching for students and non-profit organizations.

Matthew Chan joined Yahoo Hong Kong in 2007 bringing in his versatile analytic and operation experience in Hong Kong and international markets. As the Head of Sales, Matthew oversees performance advertising strategy, ad products and marketplace development and strategic partnerships for both Hong Kong and China. Prior to joining Yahoo, Matthew worked in the banking and logistic fields in Canada, Hong Kong and Asia Pacific regions.

Dedicated in the automotive industry for 15 years, Kevin Chen joined Mercedes-Benz Taiwan, Regional Office Greater China at BMW AG, and then Audi Volkswagen Taiwan; prior to these, Kevin started his career at marketing agencies for some years as well.

Not only having intercultural working history across Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Beijing and Munich with colleagues all over ASEAN, Europe and North America, Kevin has had extensive experience in marketing, public affairs, press and media, customer relationships, and data management. He puts especially his interest in consumer insights, market specific needs, and the rapid development of digital journey; a Taiwanese local designed Mobile Phone Application “My Volkswagen” was led successfully by Kevin, which generates over 80% participation from the active customers just in a year.

In addition, Kevin enjoys dynamic environment and welcomes new ideas the most. He worked with business partners, which are Yahoo, Ogilvy, and phd, developing many impactful campaigns via XR and MarTech; the brand Volkswagen in Taiwan is now seen energetic and innovative accordingly.

Zoe heads up Yahoo’s content studio, the only creative agency to sit at the intersection of creativity, technology, trusted editorial brands and massive scale. She is a Marketing Academy scholar with over 15 years experience working with companies that prioritize creativity and technology.

Zoe has played an instrumental role in establishing Yahoo Creative Studios as a metaverse pioneer, helping make it tangible for brands today. She is behind immersive campaigns for some of Australia's biggest brands including Officeworks, BIG W and Optus.

Julia Edwards is a strategic sales expert, with 17 years of experience in commercialising media across global publishers such as CNN, The Guardian and Foxtel. In her current role as NSW Sales Director for Yahoo she is responsible for implementing our APAC sales strategy in NSW.

Dan Ferguson leads the Singapore office for Ptarmigan Media, a specialist in financial services media and marketing. Dan’s experience spans over 20 years in the media and marketing sector across journalism, agency, social, and content.

Once Chloe began to understand the depths of mental health, everything changed. Following an eye-opening series of events that began when her mother became sick 4 years ago, her experience was lived in and raw. Chloe’s mission escalated quickly, with the aim to dismantle the stigma around mental health in the media and marketing industry.

Chloe’s experience, including 10 years at Omnicom Media Group, has empowered her ability in the industry. Chloe offered training for free to the entire industry, partnering with UnLtd’s Mood Tea to raise money for Youth Mental Health.

Training shouldn’t be boring, but it often is, yet education that is as essential as Mental Health First Aid, can’t afford to be. Chloe brings an authentic, passionate, and energetic approach to teachings that intend to save lives. She believes that mental health should be something that everyone feels comfortable talking about, however, realises that isn’t the case for so many. Chloe’s goal is to ensure everyone feels comfortable along the journey, no matter the stage they’re at.

Amy possesses over 10 years of experience having built her foundations by working across a wide range of clients working across all media channels. Her experience ranges from delivering impactful and first to market campaigns to tactical local marketing. Amy is passionate about creating media partnerships and investment approaches that will unlock benefits and value for our clients. Her curiosity and passion drives her to explore new opportunities in investment products, technology and innovation.

Jerry Low is the Head of Marketing Southeast Asia for Schroders. In his role, he is responsible for setting and driving the overall marketing strategy for the firm’s businesses in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia.

Jerry holds over 20 years of experience in the financial industry. Prior to joining Schroders in 2005, he held roles with various financial organisations including OCBC Bank as well as AIA.

Jerry holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the National University of Singapore. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder and a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) charterholder.

Chloe’s career to date spans across agency leadership, media consultancy and business management roles in Singapore and China covering local and international businesses.

Chloe is known to be highly passionate about the endless possibilities the world of communications could bring. She is also fervent about nurturing and creating a platform for future leaders to thrive in their whole person development and self-mastery to truly lead in this VUCA world. Her passion propels her to be an active contributor and supporter of industry development. She sits on the jury for several local and international awards, contributes to talent building programmes such as Singapore Skills Ignition and the Mediaworks and is an active speaker at learning institutes and industry events.

Chloe believes in building a strong collaboration and prototyping culture that focuses on a simple philosophy of Happy People, Happy Clients, Happy Results. Her belief in strong people culture sees Omnicom Media Group being awarded HR Asia Best Companies to work for in Asia.

As a Singapore-born and bred media professional, Chloe contributes actively to industry causes and is proud to put Singapore on the world map for advertising.

Lance is the Associate Ecommerce Director of I.T Apparels Group with over 11 years of experience in e-commerce general management, digital transformation, and customer value management. Before joining I.T, he spent 4 years with YOOX Net-a-porter Group - Richemont in heading the marketing team for Asia Pacific region.