Speakers & Thought Leaders
People
Meet the visionaries, innovators, and industry leaders who have shared their insights at BRXND conferences.

Amanda Kahlow
CEO & Founder
1mind

Amy Baynard
Partner Liaison Manager & Event Producer
S&P Global

Ana Andjelic
Chief Brand Officer
Esprit

Anastasia Leng
CEO
CreativeX
Andrew Deitchman
Co-Founder & Executive Chairman
New Stand

André Cardozo
Group Director, Technology
Work & Co.

Anita Schillhorn
Executive Director of Strategy
McKinney

Anna Vander Broek
Head of Field Marketing & Events
Airtable

Anthony Maggio
VP, Head of Product Management
Airtable

Artem Petrov
CEO
CopySight AI

Betty Louie
General Counsel
The Brandtech Group
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Brandon Farley
Co-founder/CEO
Suasiv

Caitlin Kelly
Founder and co-CEO
EZ Newswire

Carolyn Murphy
GM, Americas
Springboards

Champ Bennett
CEO/ Co-Founder
Capsule.video

Charlton Mcilwain
Vice Provost & Professor
New York University

Christina Kalsow-Ramos
Group Director, Product Management
Work & Co, part of Accenture Song

Ciara Schoenauer
Head of Business Development, North America
The Brandtech Group
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Claire Fridkin
AI Engineer
Alephic

Colin Nagy
Director, Global Brand Strategy

Dan Frommer
Founder and Editor in Chief
The New Consumer

David Cole
Director Experience Design
Colgate-Palmolive

David Lee
Chief Creative Officer
Squarespace
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Drew Neisser
Founder
Renegade & CMO Huddles
Elliot Walker
Creative Director & Co-Founder
Otherward

Elliott Walker
Creative Director and Co-founder
Otherward

Erika Chambers
Marketing Director
EY

Frédéric Raillard
Founder, Head of Gen AI
[AI]magination / Fred & Farid

Grant Farhall
Chief Product Officer
Getty Images

Howie Liu
CEO & Co-Founder
Airtable

Ivan Kayser
CEO
Redscout

Jack Smyth
CSO:API
Jellyfish

Jaime Robinson
Co-Founder and CCO
JOAN

James Cham
Partner
Bloomberg Beta

James Gross
Founder
Alephic

Jenny Nicholson
Founder / ECD
Queen of Swords

Jo Shoesmith
VP, Global Chief Creative Officer
Amazon

John Dawson
VP, Strategy
Jellyfish
Jon Bond
Founder
Weightless.co

Jon Lombardo
Co-Founder
Evidenza

Jon Williams
Founder & CEO
The Liberty Guild

Jonathan Laniado
Sr. Automation Manager
Amazon Web Services

Josh Nafman
VP, Digital & Data Marketing
Diageo

Julie Samuels
President & CEO
Tech:NYC

Justin Ibbett
CEO
Focaldata

Justin Wohlstadter
Founder & CEO
Waldo.fyi

Kait Stephens
CEO & Co-Founder
Brij

Kat Gillis
Alephic
Katrina Craigwell
Director, Brand Solutions Marketing
Chase

Keith Butters
Creative Engineering Director
WeTransfer

Lance Martin
Software engineer
LangChain

Lauren Boyman
Chief Marketing Officer, Americas
KPMG
Lindsay Slaby
Founder
Sunday Dinner

Madison Utendahl
Founder
Utendahl Creative

Mark D'Arcy
Founder
The Creative Legion

Mark Levine
Manhattan Borough President
Office of the Manhattan Borough President

Matt Trainor
SVP Brand Creative
Lands' End

Maya Erwin
Vice President, Marketing & Innovation
Blue Diamond

Meredith Broussard
Associate Professor
NYU

Michael Francello
Director of Innovation
Shutterstock
Michael Treff
CEO
Code and Theory

Mickey Friedman
CEO/ Co-Founder
Flair AI

Mike Houston
Creative Director
Amazon

Mohamed Elgendy
Cofounder & CEO
Kolena

Neel Shah
Founder and co-CEO
EZ Newswire

Noah Brier
BrXnd
Orli LeWinter
Head of Brand Engagement
Verizon

Patrick Marzullo
Sr. Director, Creative
Coinbase

Paul Aaron
CEO
Addition

Paul Ford
President
Aboard

Paul Woolmington
CEO
Canvas Worldwide

Piers Fawkes
Founder
The Prompt

Pip Bingemann
Co-founder/CEO
Springboards

Ravi Kandikonda
CMO
Zillow

Reese Fuller
Lead Writer
Work & Co.

Rex Sorgatz
Co-Founder
AndThen

Rob May
CEO
BrandGuard

Rob McCutcheon
Director, Digital Innovation and Ecosystems
Gatorade

Samantha Sammis
Co-Founder / COO
Suasiv

Sarah Bird
Responsible AI Lead, Azure AI
Microsoft

Scott Stedman
CEO
The Imaginarium

Shannon Moorman
EVP/Global Head of Talent Attraction and Operations
WPP

Shannon Sorensen
SVP, Business & Legal Affairs
National Music Publishers' Association

Shareen Pathak
Product, Shopping AI
Amazon

Sofiia Shvets
CEO/Co-Founder
Claid.ai
Sophie Kelly
Sr. Vice President of North American Whiskeys Portfolio
Diageo

Steve Kazanjian
Partnerships
Social Dept.

Ted Florea
Founder, Chief Strategy Officer
Ancient LLC
Tiffany Rolfe
Global Chief Creative Officer
R/GA

Tim Hucklesby
Creative Director and Co-founder
Otherward

Tim Hwang
Author
"Subprime Attention Crisis"

Tom Critchlow
EVP Audience Growth
Raptive

Toni Clayton-Hine
Chief Marketing Officer
EY

Weber Wong
CEO
Flora