The Ad Podcast

Kieran Donahue is a transformational Fortune 500 restaurant & hospitality executive. She has extensive experience in loyalty, brand, digital and omni-channel marketing and an impressive history of surpassing business goals, building trusted relationships and empowering teams. Kieran is known for being a collaborative problem solver that leads with evidence-based marketing strategies to drive t...

Joshua Lowcock is an experienced CxO and Non-Executive Director in digital, media, marketing, and technology. New York-based Joshua has lived and worked in Australia, China, and the USA in senior leadership roles. He has been recognized in the ADWEEK 50 as an indispensable media, marketing, and technology executive. An experienced board member and Non-Executive Director, Joshua has served on the b...

Elliott Parker is the CEO at High Alpha Innovation and the author of The Illusion of Innovation. High Alpha Innovation partners with corporations, universities, and entrepreneurs to build advantaged startups. They apply the venture studio model they developed at High Alpha and the principles of disruption theory to rapidly build and scale software companies and help their partners accelerate growt...

Bryan is the CMO of Autocamp. He has over 10 years of Brand Management & Digital Marketing experience, he excels in the luxury lifestyle category and has a passion for travel. He offers outstanding results-based marketing expertise, collaborative leadership and partnership development on an International level.

Tripp Westbrook is an innovative, convention-breaking agency leader and President/Chief Creative Officer of Firehouse. His creativity and expertise in challenging category status quo has been recognized by virtually every major advertising award show and his work includes one of USA TODAY’s top 100 Super Bowl commercials of all time.

Jason has been a trusted leader on amazing global brands including Apple, @Meta (AR, VR and Metaverse), TikTok, Amazon, The Walt Disney Company Pixar Animation Studios, American Honda Motor Company, Inc. and UNICEF. He's helped build and empower departments fueled by pride and passion, which has inevitably led to some breakthrough creative work spanning digital, social, performance, influencer...

Ian is a guy who uses his 15+ years of experience building ads, and writing shows for networks like MTV, SyFy and CMT, to help brands tell better stories. He's an ADWEEK Top 100 Creative and works across iconic cultural brands like HBO, Apple, Savage X Fenty, and Marvel Entertainment.

As a partner at Shareability, the social content studio and brand consultancy known for creating some of the most shared video campaigns of the last decade, Erick has been working with companies like Google, Intuit, Mars, Adobe, and others, to help them drive social campaign success, better understanding, engaging and activating target audiences. As the founding partner of Down Home with Tim McGra...

Jim Jonassen is a builder of teams, companies, products and communities. He’s founded five executive search firms over the past 30 years, including Riviera Partners Partners and JJA. Jim was co-founder, CEO and Chairman of venture-backed Peoplemover Inc., an enterprise software firm that merged with Opus360 prior to its 2000 IPO. He also founded and led Micro J Systems, a developer of software sol...

Casey is a growth veteran, with over a decade of experience in helping software companies scale fast. Whether it's garnering millions of views on Quora and LinkedIn or pioneering new growth levers (like booking his team on hundreds of podcasts), Casey is always looking for creative and value-led ways to grab attention and break from the mold. In his current role leading growth at ActiveCampaig...

Ted's entrepreneurship journey is all about solving problems that help people. He is focused on the health & wellness, clean-tech, environment and health-tech industries. In 2005 he was diagnosed with Crohn's disease which changed the direction of his life. As part of that change he decided to give up alcohol but still wanted to enjoy the taste and social experience that comes with bee...

Cory Assink & Zeke Blattler are the Co founders of Los Cuernos Wine. After pouring wine to thousands of people and wine professionals, they realized wine had become too complicated. Los Cuernos Wine is a non-vintage, consistent house-style that's ready to be enjoyed with or without food. Don't overthink it, drink what you like.

Sandeep Dayal is a seasoned marketing and strategy leader, with 20+ years of experience across industries. In addition to serving as the Managing Director, Sandeep heads the firm's Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Practice. He serves as a counselor to C-suite executives and board members at Fortune 500 companies. He has served 50+ clients in over 100 engagements around the world (including...

Jake Karls is a different type of business leader – unapologetically authentic, refreshingly relatable, and completely free of BS. He is the Co-founder and Chief Rainmaker of Mid-Day Squares, the good-for-you chocolate brand that turned a kitchen-table dream into a global household name. Mid-Day Squares is leading the disruption of an extremely competitive vertical with a winning team, innovative...

Brigette Wolf is the Chief Marketing Officer at My/Mochi where she leads marketing and innovation and the brand’s transformation for growth. Brigette is responsible for fueling the company’s innovation pipeline through the creation of beyond the core products and partnerships as well as building the brand’s equity and connection to consumers. Previously she was VP, Global Head of SnackFutures, Mon...

Kieron Monahan is a creative brand strategist with 30+ years experience solving business and marketing problems. Working at some of the best creative agencies in the world partnering with world-class brands. A selection of clients include: British Airways, Jack Daniel’s, Vodafone/Verizon, Playstation , Nokia, The BBC, Massachusetts General Hospital Brigham Hospital, Progressive Insurance, Procter...

Serial entrepreneur Brady Brim-DeForest is CEO of Formula. Monks, the technology solutions division of Media. Monks, which transforms the world's most ambitious companies with AI. He has co-founded six successful startups, closed sales worth over $250 million, and helped global, monolithic organizations reorganize for innovation. An in-demand mentor, speaker, and writer on AI, innovation, entr...

Richard Yelland is a filmmaker who explores the extremes of action sports and human storytelling. Powerful visuals and great performances are a trademark of his directorial work on projects for the HISTORY Channel, FUEL TV and Nike, to name a few. Richard's documentary film, "Floating: the Nathan Gocke Story," Executive Produced by Oscar nominee Morgan Spurlock ("Super Size Me&q...

Jason is a seasoned marketing leader with over 25 years of experience in driving growth for B2B and B2C companies across various industries and markets. He has a proven track record of aligning sales, marketing, and product roadmaps using traditional and advanced digital marketing techniques. As a Chief Marketing Officer at Chief Outsiders, He helps small and mid-sized businesses overcome their gr...

Kristine's values are leadership, authenticity, personal development, and not being an asshole. A good friend of hers who passed away in 2020 wrote in his Instagram bio, "it costs $0.00 to be a nice person," and it's a mantra she's since adopted in his honor. She believes that kindness is a rare resource that we can offer freely, generously. She built her career in the agency...

David Buzo, MBA, Chief Marketing Officer, joined Independent Advisor Alliance in August 2023. In this role, David sets the strategy and goals to strengthen and enhance the IAA brand, collaborates with IAA’s business development team in their recruiting and expansion efforts, and oversees the development and management of the firm’s marketing team. David also partners with advisors to grow their pr...

AJ Wilcox - CEO - B2Linked | LinkedIn Ads Performance Agency AJ Wilcox is a LinkedIn Ads pro who founded B2Linked.com , a LinkedIn Ads-specific ad agency, in 2014. He's an official LinkedIn partner, host of the LinkedIn Ads Show podcast, and has managed among the world’s largest LinkedIn Ads accounts worldwide. He's a ginger & triathlete. He & his wife live in Utah, with their four...

John has been fortunate in his career to be exposed to all aspects of Business and Sales from making 400 dials a week, to leading a self funded team from startup through acquisition, starting his own business and now working with some of the fastest growing and most dynamic companies in the world like Salesforce, LinkedIn, Google, Amazon and many others. These experiences have allowed him to creat...

Brandon leads all marketing functions and is responsible for developing go-to-market strategies for GroundTruth’s advertising products. Brandon has served in senior leadership roles at some of the largest U.S. brands and as a strategic advisor to several leading digital marketing agencies. Previously, Brandon was CMO of Potbelly Sandwich Works, CMO of Papa Johns’s, and VP of Marketing at The Wendy...

Esther-Mireya Tejeda is the first chief marketing officer at Anywhere Real Estate Inc., home to some of the most recognized brands in the industry. Prior to Anywhere, she was a growth catalyst at organizations like SoundExchange, Entercom/CBS Radio, Univision, PepsiCo and Diageo. She chairs the Women in Tech and Product group at Anywhere and is on the board of directors for the DEI Council.