NOVEMBER 14-15, 2016 ∙ TKP CONFERENCE CENTER ∙ NEW YORK
2016 New York Speakers

Max Ciccotosto
Head of Global Growth
Light In The Box
Session: Scaling your Influencer Marketing Globally

Todd Crawford
VP Strategic Initiatives
Impact Radius
Session: How to Win Influencers and Influence Customers

Apu Gupta
CEO
Curalate
Co-founded Curalate, Inc. and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Gupta has a background in both startups and established ventures encompassing strategic management, marketing, sales and operations. He worked in the technology, financial services, and industrial chemicals industries, and also has exposure to the pharmaceuticals and aviation sectors. He served as the Chief Marketing Officer for MedPlus Health Services Pvt. Ltd. and also served as its Chief Operating Officer, North India since March 2007. Mr. Gupta was responsible for leading MedPlus expansion into Northern India and also heading marketing efforts nationwide for MedPlus Health. Prior to joining MedPlus, Mr. Gupta spent seven years in a variety of strategy, sales, and marketing roles in the United States, where he focused on launching and building new products, services, and organizations in the financial services and technology sectors. Mr. Gupta also served at Arthur Andersen, American Express and WebEx Communications. He holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business and an undergraduate degree from the University of Texas at Austin.
Session: The Innovation Shift to Empower Emerging Influencers & Brands

Lindsay Hittman
President
BrandCycle Inc.
Lindsay Hittman is the Co-Founder and President of BrandCycle Inc., an affiliate platform that strategically connects lifecycle retailers with high quality content and influencer partners. Lindsay has extensive background in online customer acquisition where she previously served as the Director of Digital Strategy and the Director of Product Development at Acceleration Partners working internally to develop and launch new business extensions and services. Her background and interest in retail and e-commerce was launched in product development and consultancy roles for Macy's and Bloomingdales. Lindsay holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania.
Session: How to Turn your Influencer Partners into Revenue-Generating Publishers

Tom Holland
CEO & Founder
TeamHolland LLC
Tom Holland, MS, CSCS, CISSN is the CEO & Founder of TeamHolland LLC, a fitness-consulting company. An internationally-recognized fitness expert, Tom is an exercise physiologist and certified sports nutritionist. The author of numerous books and the host of best-selling fitness DVDS, Tom is also an elite endurance athlete with 23 Ironman triathlon and 70 marathon finishes around the world. Tom has worked with such companies and teams as Nautilus, Gatorade, McDonald’s, The New York Jets, Vega, Nissan, Merck, PowerBar, NordicTrack and Timex. Tom is a frequent guest on The TODAY Show, Good Morning America. FOX & CNN.
Panel: "Power Middle" Rising

Rachel Honoway
CEO
Fresh Press Media
Rachel is the CEO of FMTC, a premier affiliate solution provider and the company behind the Fresh Press Media Influencer Marketplace . She is currently serving as the President of the Performance Marketing Association Board of Directors. Rachel has been in the performance marketing industry since the late 90's helping merchants launch new programs, assisting affiliates in starting their businesses and has been a part of developing technologies that help affiliates, publishers, bloggers, merchants and advertisers optimize their interactions and maximize the return on their relationships.
Session: Negotiating with Influencers

Zac Johnson
President
ZacJohnson.com
At the age of 15, Zac Johnson began making money online designing web site banners for $1 each. A self taught entrepreneur, Zac’s been making money online for nearly 20 years and has been involved in nearly every facet of affiliate and online marketing. One of Zac’s many successes includes his story of “How I Made $860,538.38 Profit in 4 Months!” from one web site, which can be read at his blog at ZacJohnson.com. Through the training and case studies on his blog, over $5,000,000 in new business to his advertisers and network partners. You can also listen to Zac’s new podcast “Rise of the Entrepreneur” on iTunes and connect with Zac through his new online training community at Blogging.org.

Gary Kibel
Partner
Davis & Gilbert LLP
Session: Top Legal Compliance Tips for Engaging Influencers

Karen Koslow
Managing Partner
Wellness Amplified
Panel: "Power Middle" Rising

Kamiu Lee
Head of Business Development & Strategy
Bloglovin'
Session: The Innovation Shift to Empower Emerging Influencers & Brands

Jessica Levinson
Founder
Nutritioulicious
Jessica Fishman Levinson, MS, RDN, CDN is a registered dietitian nutritionist and the founder of Nutritioulicious, a New York-based nutrition communications and consulting business with a focus on culinary nutrition. Jessica specializes in recipe development, writing, and social and traditional media relations. She is the co-author of We Can Cook: Introduce Your Child to the Joy of Cooking with 75 Simple Recipes and Activities (Barron’s, 2011), the Culinary Corner columnist for Today’s Dietitian Magazine, and maintains the popular Nutritioulicious blog. In addition to her professional work, Jessica enjoys all things related to food and wine and spending time with her husband and twin daughters.
Panel: "Power Middle" Rising

Brian Littleton
President/CEO
ShareASale
Session: Influencer Outreach, Onboarding, Activation & Motivation: History & How-To

Stephanie Robbins
President
Robbins Interactive
Session: Transitioning Influencers from Storytelling to Selling

Oliver Roup
Founder & CEO
VigLink
As Founder and CEO of VigLink, Oliver Roup understands the power of native monetization like few others, and is passionate about powering content-driven commerce for companies like Reuters, Maxim, Women's Health and more. Through advanced link technology, VigLink automatically enables publishers to earn revenue, at scale, directly through a publisher's words. Prior to VigLink, Oliver served as a Director at Microsoft in charge of various media properties including XBOX Live Video Marketplace, Zune Marketplace, and MSN Entertainment. In addition to holding patents covering micro-transactions, media, and metadata, he is currently a board member of the Performance Marketing Association and chair of the PMA's Content Monetization Council. Oliver received his bachelor's and master's degrees in Computer Science from MIT and his MBA from the Harvard Business School.
Paenl: The Innovation Shift to Empower Emerging Influencers & Brands

Barbara Rozgonyi
CEO
CoryWest Media
Barbara Rozgonyi leads CoryWest Media, a Midwest-based WIRED branding and social selling consultancy that positions its clients as highly visible, attractive, and influential leaders online. The company's client list covers a wide range of industries from Fortune 500 to startups. An influential digital marketing expert and author, Barbara began blogging at http://wiredPRworks.com in 2006. She co-founded Social Media Club's Chicago chapter in 2008 and was selected by Nokia as one of two social media experts to represent the U.S. at Social Media Week Berlin in 2013. Named one of the top 50 content marketing influencers on Twitter, Barbara's digital brand is @wiredPRworks.
An international speaker in the meetings and event industry, Barbara is Meeting Professionals International member and a National Speakers Association professional member.
Session: Backstage Tour: How to Build Brands with Influence & Pack the House in 3D

Greg Shepard
Chief Strategy Officer
Pepperjam
Session: Leveraging the Evolution of Content in Ecommerce Marketing

Laura Smous
Head of Product Marketing
TapInfluence
Laura is the Head of Product Marketing at TapInfluence. Laura blends extensive agency and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) experience, along with a love for the art of marketing and passion for data, to help brand and agency customers generate measurable ROI, with influencer marketing. She is a versatile marketing leader and accomplished writer, with nearly twenty years of experience.

Latham Thomas
Founder
Mama Glow Guru
Latham Thomas, aka Glow Maven is a celebrity wellness/ lifestyle maven and birth doula- transforming not only how women give birth to their babies, but how they give rise to the best version of themselves. Named one of Oprah Winfrey's Super Soul 100- a enlightened group of leaders elevating humanity with their work- Latham is helping women embrace optimal wellness and spiritual growth as a pathway to empowerment. She is the founder of Mama Glow (MamaGlow.com) a lifestyle brand and highly regarded website offering inspiration, education, and holistic services for expectant and new mamas. A graduate of Columbia University and The Institute for Integrative Nutrition, Latham formally served on the advisory board of Yahoo! Health and currently she serves on the TUFTS University Nutrition Council. Latham is best-selling author of "Mama Glow: A Hip Guide to Your Fabulous Abundant Pregnancy," a go-to wellness guide for expecting mothers endorsed by Dr. Christiane Northrup, Dr Mark Hyman, Christy Turlington Burns & more.
Having cultivated her wellness practice over nearly a decade she has served as a doula and lifestyle guru for celebrity clients including: Alicia Keys, Rebecca Minkoff, Tamera Mowry, Venus and Serena Williams and more. A self proclaimed ritualista, Latham believes in turning the the ordinary routines of every day life into something sacred. Whether travel, dining, self care, style, fitness, mindfulness or wellbeing, Latham is guided by inspiration and celebrates moments of magic in the mundane.
Latham's leading a revolution in radical self-care teaching women everywhere to "mother themselves first". She was named one of the "Top 100 Women To Watch In Wellness" by Mind Body Green. A single mom residing in NYC, she is the proud mother of 13 year old DJ prodigy and entrepreneur, DJ Fulano Latham has been featured in a variety of media outlets including, Vogue, SELF, Fast Company, Wall Street Journal Magazine, Essence, Fit Pregnancy, Dr. Oz, Good Day NY, Inside Edition, to name a few.
Panel: "Power Middle" Rising

Chris Tradgett
Director
Publisher Discovery
Session: Going Beyond the Celebrity – Identifying your Influencers

Martin Weinberg
Director of Marketing, US
SEMrush
Session: Optimizing your B2B Influencer Marketing Programs

Adam Weiss
GM & SVP
Rakuten Affiliate Network
Session: The Innovation Shift to Empower Emerging Influencers & Brands

Jessica Woodbury
Business Development Manager, Content
CJ Affiliate