Saul J. Berman, Ph.D. is Partner & Vice President, Chief Strategist and Global Salesforce Alliance Leader for IBM Consulting. In this role he works closely with senior executives of major corporations and Salesforce on strategic business issues. He leads a worldwide team of IBM consultants focused on delivering business value through platform-based transformation and industry reinvention. Dr. Berman was the previously the Digital Strategy Global Leader & Lead Strategy Partner for the Media and Entertainment Practice as well as a Global Strategy & Change Services Leader at IBM Global Business Services. Before joining IBM, Saul was the Global Strategic Change Leader at PwC Consulting. He was also previously with The Boston Consulting Group, a divisional Vice President with Broadway Department Stores and an Assistant Professor of Management at the University of Southern California. Dr. Dr. Berman holds a Ph.D. in Management and Information Systems and a MBA in Production Systems and Operations Research from the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University. He obtained a Bachelor of Science in Economics at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Berman was named as one of the Top 25 Consultants of 2005 by Consulting Magazine & Top 50 Marketing executives over 50 by Global CMO Magazine. He is also an editorial advisory board member for Strategy & Leadership Magazine. Additionally, Dr. Berman served as a board member of the USC Film School Entertainment Technology Center, and of the Southern California chapter of the Strategic Leadership Forum. He has also authored numerous books and publications including Not For Free: Revenue Strategies for a New World, published by Harvard Business Review Press, and the numerous IBM Institute for Business Value studies.

Maya Lasry is the Chief Marketing Officer for Seven Bucks Companies. During her tenure, she’s quickly shaped and grown the company’s in-house marketing arm whose purview includes projects from film, television, digital, and branding. As a trailblazer she creates meaningful and revolutionary ways to harness her skillful content development process, unique social media marketing tactics, and knowledge of consumer-driven insights, in order to reach audiences in organic and authentic ways, beyond traditional marketing avenues. Maya creates audience engaging assets strategically aimed to engage Dwayne Johnson’s 492+M followers across social networks in efforts to amplify all campaign initiatives in a holistic fashion. Prior to joining Seven Bucks Companies, co-founded by Dwayne Johnson and Dany Garcia, Maya was at Universal where she was an integral part in the success of films and the ability to captivate audiences through creative advertising materials. Her year of experience on the studio side aids her now in collaborating with studio colleagues to create strong and innovative campaigns and partnerships, with an audience first mentality. Most recently, the team led by Maya, strategized how to best bring BLACK ADAM to the world. Along with Warner Bros., they created worldwide appeal for the film making appearances at key events in over half a dozen markets ahead of premiere. In addition, they executed an authentic, behind-the-scenes social campaign parallel to the traditional one, given Dwayne’s large audience a front row seat to every step of the process. The result was having BLACK ADAM top the box office three weeks running thus far and already surpassing $300M globally. In the streaming space late in 2021, Maya worked together with Netflix to facilitate an unparalleled global launch of RED NOTICE resulting in it becoming Netflix’s most successful film of all time with 364,020,000 hours watched in its first 28 days. Along with the film, the team lead a 12 Days of Red Notice giveaway initiative which promoted the movie along with several brands from within Seven Bucks Companies, with the aim of driving anticipation for the movie while giving back to fans. Teremana tequila launched at the start of the pandemic shutdown in March 2020 and Maya was instrumental in making it the fastest growing spirits brand to date, as confirmed by Shanken News Daily. Maya took this to the next level in July 2021 as mentioned above, creating a fan experience to coincide with the JUNGLE CRUISE premiere. The team organized a thank you event for the support of fans in Downtown Disney. They provided tacos and Teremana tequila via the “Mana Mobile,” organically linking Teremana with the film launch and creating great brand awareness and interest in the community. The Mana Mobile then embarked on a road trip across the U.S. to bring MANA and thanks to Americans at a wide variety of locations throughout the country from military bases and fire stations to local community events while at the same time introducing them to Teremana brand tequila.

Dan Callahan serves as Senior Vice President of Data Strategy and Sales Innovation for Fox Ad Sales. He is based in New York and reports to Marianne Gambelli, President of Fox Ad Sales. In this role, Callahan leads a team that is focused on the ‘next generation’ of advertising capabilities, notably around audience and programmatic advertising solutions and driving their widespread adoption by marketers and agencies. This includes efforts around the company’s capabilities with FOX Next, which personalizes the brand experience by bringing the ability for clients to optimize against the entire Fox portfolio of platforms. With FOX Next, the company has built forward-leaning capabilities and cutting-edge tools, using data, and automation that deliver precision and drives impact for the company’s advertising partners. A 14-year veteran of the company, Callahan joined Fox in 2007 and has held a multitude of ascending positions within the Ad Sales Division. In 2014, he was elevated to VP of Programmatic Sales for FOX Sports and his role expanded the following year to the Fox Networks Group. In 2019, he was promoted to his current position. Callahan graduated from Wake Forest University with a bachelor’s in Communications. He was also a member of the school’s football team.

Amy Ginsberg, Chief Investment Officer, Havas Media Group: As Chief Investment Officer for Havas Media Group, Amy Ginsberg leads all investment efforts across North America and is responsible for the overall media investment vision and strategy for the Group. Prior to joining Havas Media, Amy was the Chief Investment Officer of Canvas Worldwide. With more than 25 years of experience on both the sales and buying sides of the business, Amy has serviced or represented a diverse variety of accounts including packaged goods, pharmaceutical, automotive, retail, QSR, movie studio, beer, and toys. Prior to joining Canvas, Amy built her expertise in the sports, automotive, and the kids’ markets with positions of increasing responsibility at agencies Ogilvy & Mather, Mindshare, and Zenith Media.   

Robert Schildhouse is Executive Vice President, North America, and General Manager, Group Marketing Services, spearheading the streaming service’s business growth in the U.S. and Canada and leading its centralized global marketing services. He drives market growth, leads business development, commercial relationships, programming and performance marketing for BritBox North America.  Having been at the forefront of the streaming industry since its inception, Robert Schildhouse joined Hulu prior to its launch in 2008, progressing to become the leader of Hulu’s Content Acquisition organization, where he and his team led many groundbreaking and innovative deals shepherding hundreds of studios, networks, and global rights holders into the AVOD and SVOD market for the first time. Robert then joined CBS Global Distribution Group as SVP, Digital Licensing and Distribution, later rising to EVP, responsible for monetizing the rights of the CBS and Showtime libraries to the streaming marketplace. Schildhouse later became EVP, Business Development, where he was responsible for authoring strategy to expand CBS’s global footprint. He began his career at GE Capital, where he was a graduate of GE’s Financial Management Program.

Steve Silvestri currently serves as Senior Vice President of Advanced Advertising within Warner Bros. Discovery’s data-driven and advanced advertising sales group. In this role, he oversees the sales and execution of advanced audience sales across Warner Bros. Discovery’s premium portfolio of networks. Prior to Warner Bros. Discovery, Silvestri held roles at Oath, Collective and DIRECTV, where he was responsible for the development and monetization of advanced television products, including household addressable. Silvestri joined Discovery in 2016 and is based out of their company’s global headquarters in New York.

Peg Jackson, Managing Director, Mooreland Partners: Peg is a Managing Director in Mooreland Partner’s Greenwich office. She brings more than 20 years of investment banking, venture capital and operating management experience within the media technology sector. At Mooreland, she focuses on the digital media, marketing software and e-commerce industries. Prior to joining Mooreland Partners, she was a Managing Director at Gridley & Co, where she worked on transactions within the digital media sector. Prior to joining Gridley, Peg worked in venture capital as a Managing Director at NeoCarta Ventures investing in media technology companies such as Silverpop and Myrio (acquired by Siemens). Prior to working at NeoCarta, Peg held corporate development and operational roles at NBC and Reuters. Peg holds a BA in Economics from Georgetown University and an MBA from New York University.