As a partnership company, we work with other industry leaders to go beyond the transactional to achieve the transformational, joining forces with fellow industry leaders to build the future. We are excited to have the best minds in the business, working alongside us as we break legacy. At NBCUniversal’s ONE22 event, you’ll hear from:
Kelly Abcarian
Executive Vice President, Measurement & Impact,
Advertising & Partnerships, NBCUniversal
Kelly Abcarian is Executive Vice President, Measurement & Impact, Advertising & Partnerships at NBCUniversal. Abcarian spearheads the company’s rapidly accelerating cross-platform and full-funnel measurement capabilities, leading innovation from impressions to impact at a local, national and global level across NBCUniversal’s One Platform.
Krishan Bhatia
President & Chief Business Officer,
Global Advertising and Partnerships, NBCUniversal
Krishan Bhatia serves as President & Chief Business Officer for NBCUniversal’s Advertising and Partnerships division, reporting to Linda Yaccarino, Chairman, Global Advertising & Partnerships. Bhatia, with the help of his 500-person team, oversees Digital & Advanced Advertising Sales as well as the division’s One Platform Strategy, Partnerships, Product, Technology, Insights & Measurement and Operations functions — spanning a portfolio of TV, CTV/OTT and digital assets that reaches 230M U.S. adults every month, including the company’s ad-supported streaming platform Peacock.
Denise Dresser
EVP and Global CRO Communications,
Media and Technology, Salesforce
As EVP of Communications, Media, and High Tech (CMT) Sales, Denise Dresser leads the distribution and go-to-market strategy for some of North America’s largest, most strategic accounts and for Salesforce’s industry-leading cloud solutions. Her organization drives growth, scale, and customer success across the Communications, Media, and High-Tech Industry. They are trusted for bringing expertise across the Salesforce Platform and delivering industry tailored solutions. For more than seven years at Salesforce, Dresser has held sales leadership roles of increasing responsibility, while giving back by mentoring future women leaders and top talent. Prior to Salesforce, she was a top sales leader at Oracle and Oracle’s Hyperion Solutions. Dresser holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Josh Feldman
Global Chief Marketing Officer,
Advertising and Partnerships, NBCUniversal
Josh Feldman serves as Global Chief Marketing Officer, NBCUniversal Advertising Sales and Partnerships. He is the division’s first global CMO, reporting into Linda Yaccarino, Chairman, Global Advertising and Partnerships. In this role, Feldman is responsible for driving how NBCUniversal’s Advertising and Partnerships division shows up in the marketplace, leading creative executions that span Upfronts and industry-first events.
Anupam Gupta
Chief Product Officer, Mediaocean
Anupam Gupta is Chief Product Officer at Mediaocean, the mission-critical platform for omnichannel advertising. Anupam joined Mediaocean following the acquisition of 4C, where he also served as Chief Product Officer. For two decades, Anupam has led product strategy and growth planning initiatives for technology companies. As EVP, Product Management at Vubiquity, he delivered turnkey content-as-a-service solutions to leading entertainment studios, TV networks, and video distributors. Previously, Anupam was the President and CEO of Mixpo, which provides software to execute multi-screen video campaigns. Anupam started his career at Microsoft where he held key product management leadership roles during his eight-year tenure with the company.
Christian Kleinerman
Senior Vice President of Product, Snowflake
Christian Kleinerman is a database expert with over 20 years of experience working with various database technologies, currently serving as Senior Vice President of Product at Snowflake. He has more than 15 years of management and leadership experience. At Microsoft, he served as General Manager of the Data Warehousing product unit where he was responsible for a broad portfolio of products. Most recently, Christian worked at Google leading YouTube’s infrastructure and data systems. Christian earned his bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Los Andes University, and he is a named inventor on numerous Snowflake patents.
John Lee
Chief Data Officer,
Advertising and Partnerships, NBCUniversal
John Lee serves as Chief Data Officer for NBCUniversal’s Advertising and Partnerships division. Lee leads an established centralized data strategy unit tasked with accelerating the development and implementation of NBCUniversal’s enterprise-wide consumer identity and data strategy generating enhanced business results for marketers and engaging consumer experiences across the company’s One Platform. Lee and his team work collaboratively and in close coordination across the entire enterprise as well as with Sales, Operations and Technology Services infusing a data-first mindset across all products, services and interactions. Additionally, Lee and his team are responsible for developing and transforming the company’s market-leading identity capabilities from the Audience Insights Hub to NBCU ID and more. Lee reports to Krishan Bhatia, President & Chief Business Officer, NBCUniversal Advertising and Partnerships.
Ryan McConville
Executive Vice President,
Advertising Platforms & Operations, NBCUniversal
Ryan McConville serves as EVP, Advertising Platforms & Operations at NBCUniversal. In this role, Ryan leads a team dedicated to developing technology-driven strategies to support the future vision of the Advertising & Partnerships division. He is also responsible for overall product management including developing and executing the product roadmap across all ad tech solutions, integrations, systems, and platforms
Anthony Skinner
Chief of Engineering &
Product, iSpot
Anthony Skinner is a veteran executive and thought leader in the software and technology space. He is currently the Chief Technology Officer and Head of Product of iSpot.tv, which provides Attention and Conversion Analytics for TV ads. Throughout his career Anthony has served as a key executive at large, publicly-traded companies such as General Electric and B. F. Goodrich, as well as venture-backed companies like MediaNet Digital, Moz, and iSpot.tv.
Linda Yaccarino
Chairman,
Global Advertising and Partnerships, NBCUniversal
Behind any show, on any screen, there’s an entire economic infrastructure at work. No person has had a bigger hand in shaping it than Linda Yaccarino. Every day, she continues to transform the $70 billion television industry.
Since joining NBCUniversal in 2011, Yaccarino has rebuilt its advertising business for the 21st century by bringing together individual network teams to create a united monetization strategy, effectively becoming the strategic and operational bridge across all of NBCUniversal’s global networks, properties, and business units. In short, she puts the “P” in the company’s P&L.
As Chairman of Advertising and Partnerships, Yaccarino is responsible for managing over $10 billion in revenue annually and stewarding the company’s industry-leading portfolio of linear networks, digital platforms, distribution partnerships, and client relationships. Yaccarino, with the help of her 1,500-person team, connects established and emerging brands to hundreds of millions of viewers—driving economic impact for not just her company, but entire industries.