Los Angeles Live 2026: Marketing

Abhijeet Kumar is an accomplished analytics executive with a proven track record of building high-performing, cross-functional teams and driving enterprise-wide impact through data, advanced analytics, and AI innovation.

He operates at the intersection of business strategy, advanced analytics, and human-centered design, translating complex business challenges into scalable, insight-driven solutions—particularly within large, matrixed organizations.

Currently, Abhijeet leads transformative initiatives in healthcare marketing and patient experience, with a focus on Generative Business Intelligence (GenBI) and AI-powered solutions. His work includes pioneering a generative AI-driven business intelligence proof of concept and developing an AI-powered call intent detection engine to unlock actionable insights, enhance patient engagement, and improve decision-making.

His areas of expertise include stakeholder engagement, strategy and insights, marketing measurement, digital innovation and adoption, cross-functional leadership, and data scalability and governance.

Jeanetta Skorzewski is Senior Vice President of US Institutional and DC Marketing at PIMCO, one of the world’s leading fixed income asset managers. With nearly 16 years of experience at the intersection of strategy, storytelling, and data-driven marketing, she leads integrated marketing initiatives spanning institutional and channel marketing, retirement product and content marketing, and plan participant and employee communications.

Jeanetta specializes in translating complex defined contribution solutions—including target date funds, retirement income strategies, and private market investments—into compelling narratives that build understanding, strengthen trust, and drive engagement. Her work bridges institutional marketing and participant-focused communications, providing a comprehensive perspective on the defined contribution ecosystem.

Throughout her career, Jeanetta has led participant communication strategies for large-scale plan sponsor implementations that generated millions in new asset flows, developed nurture campaigns that delivered hundreds of qualified leads for institutional sales teams, and elevated PIMCO’s DC Consulting Study into an influential industry resource for benchmarking trends and improving retirement plan design.

A strategic and results-oriented marketing leader, Jeanetta combines curiosity, creativity, and operational discipline to build high-impact campaigns, advance thought leadership, and drive business growth while helping improve retirement outcomes for plan participants.

Stacy Perman is an enterprise staff writer for Company Town covering the business of the film industry at the Los Angeles Times. A former writer and correspondent for Time and Businessweek, her work has appeared in a number of publications including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Inc. and the Hollywood Reporter. She has written about the Getty, the nasty implosion over the deal to buy Aman Resorts; profiled Martha Stewart, Samantha Bee, and a Hasidic rabbi who is also a Malibu surfing legend, and has investigated Uber’s strained relationship with women and the murder of her childhood best friend and her family. She is also the author of three books including the New York Times bestseller In-N-Out Burger: A Behind-The-Counter Look at the Fast-Food Chain That Breaks All the Rules.

Andrew is the VP of Demand Generation and Growth at WRITER where he gets to use enterprise-grade AI to transform how the company does marketing.  He has over 20 years of experience and has helped companies like Fivetran, MongoDB, and HubSpot grow. 

Faith E. Pinho is a journalist who has reported at the Los Angeles Times. Faith has covered a dynamic range of stories, from California wildfires to weird-looking fish. Her reporting on the 2021 California gubernatorial recall election and the Jan. 6 insurrection earned national attention and awards. Faith is also an active member of her union and a mentor to student journalists. Aside from journalism, Faith is co-founder of the Crimson Community Mentorship Program, an organization to connect high school students with mentors in her hometown of Everett, Mass.

Anne Flanagan is VP of Brand & Communications at Getty Images, where she has spent over a decade leading marketing communications strategy for the international media company and overseeing its brands, reputation, and external and internal communications globally. Before Getty Images, she held leadership roles at agencies in Sydney, London, and Dubai, working with technology and media clients including Microsoft, Samsung, and HP. A veteran of the industry, Anne's work centers on how visual content functions strategically for brands and on helping organizations build authentic representation and trust in an increasingly AI-driven world. She is a graduate of the University of Newcastle and a recipient of its 2021 Newton-John Alumni Medal. She serves on the board of the PRSA San Diego/Imperial Counties Chapter.

George Huff is the founder and CEO of Opal, the platform that helps marketing teams connect strategy to execution through unified, visual planning. Since founding Opal in 2011 in Portland, Oregon, George has led the company’s evolution from a creative collaboration tool into the marketing industry’s system of record for connected planning. Today, leading brands including Starbucks, SAP Concur, Target, General Motors, and Boeing use Opal to bring clarity, alignment, and confidence to their marketing operations. A lifelong builder and problem solver, George is passionate about helping marketers work with greater purpose and creativity by eliminating the friction that slows great ideas down.

Jay Flaherty is the CBO at Gather, an AI-native market research and content platform built for marketing teams. Jay leads all go-to-market strategy and operations at Gather, bringing a track record of building and scaling revenue functions from the ground up. Before Gather, he was Head of Sales at Pulse, leading the team through exponential growth and a successful acquisition by Gartner. He was previously a top-ranked Account Executive at Zesty, finishing number one in the US and globally. He is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Sean Black is GM/SVP of Sales, North America at Audience Path, where he led the U.S. launch and go-to-market strategy for the platform. As one of the original leaders in the digital media space, Sean brings 25+ years of experience across agencies, media, platforms, programmatic video, CTV, and advanced audience solutions. He is also the published author of The Human Signal Era. Sean’s background gives him a clear view of how brands think, how agencies plan, and how platforms deliver. He focuses on building privacy-safe audience strategies that turn real signals into activation, measurement, and business outcomes.

Jin Baik is a marketing leader known for crafting positioning and messaging that resonates with customers. As Head of Marketing at Listen Labs, Jin built the marketing function from scratch at the AI-powered customer understanding platform used by Google, Microsoft, Anthropic, and sweetgreen, and 15% of the Fortune 100. Listen was named to the Forbes AI 50 and is being acquired by Salesforce. Before Listen, Jin led multiple marketing teams at Rippling as it scaled from under $200M to more than $1B in ARR. Jin has both a BA and MBA from Dartmouth. At From Day One LA, Jin will share takeaways from a recent NYC brand campaign that ran across 1,500 screens and resulted in 3x more web traffic and 2x inbound.

Ariana Keil is a Senior Growth Marketing Manager at Canto, a provider of digital asset management software that helps teams organize, find, share, and analyze their digital content. With 15 years of experience in both B2B sales and marketing in the finance, agency, and software industries, she has an appreciation for GTM strategies that holistically target the entire buyer’s journey, and a passion for sales and marketing inter-department collaboration. Always in search of a captivating narrative surrounding business challenges, she brings a storyteller’s viewpoint to contextualizing product-led solutions. 

Caroline Klaas is Vice President of Marketing for Henkel's Professional Hair Division, where she leads the marketing strategy for a portfolio of globally recognized brands including SexyHair, DevaCurl, STMNT, and MyDentity. She is driving a multi-brand transformation focused on building a future-ready, creator-led marketing organization that connects culture, creativity, and commerce.

With a passion for turning iconic heritage brands into modern cultural forces, Caroline specializes in brand reinvention, digital acceleration, creator ecosystems, and consumer storytelling that delivers both relevance and business growth. She is known for blending strategic rigor with creative vision, bringing together cross-functional teams of marketers, creators, and innovators to build brands that resonate with today's professionals and consumers.

A champion of courageous leadership and modern marketing, Caroline believes the most impactful brands are built by people who are deeply passionate about what they do. Her work is centered on making professional beauty impossible to ignore—and ensuring it remains at the forefront of culture and innovation.

Priya Gill is Chief Marketing Officer at Iterable, where she leads global marketing and drives the company’s brand and go-to-market strategy. Before joining Iterable, Gill served as Head of Marketing at SurveyMonkey, where she led the global organization spanning brand, performance, content, and go-to-market strategy. She drove a company-wide transformation to strengthen market position, unify go-to-market efforts across teams to accelerate demand generation, and modernize the brand’s presence in an increasingly competitive landscape. Previously, she held multiple leadership roles at Box, including Director of Product Growth and Customer Marketing, where she led the self-serve business and drove revenue, adoption, and retention through lifecycle engagement. With a foundation in engineering and experience across product, finance, and marketing, Gill combines analytical precision with creative vision to build brands that drive measurable impact. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from UC Irvine and an MBA from UCLA.

Pam is a growth marketing leader with 15+ years of experience working with some of the world’s biggest technology, entertainment and consumer brands, including YouTube, Google, Mercedes-Benz and Nike.

Today, she leads Growth Marketing for NFL Sunday Ticket at YouTube, one of Google’s biggest investments in sports and entertainment. Pam oversees the strategy for growing the subscription business and works closely with teams across marketing, product, engineering and data science. Her work has also influenced growth strategies used across other YouTube products.

Before NFL Sunday Ticket, Pam worked on global product growth for YouTube Shorts, leading campaigns tied to major cultural moments and reaching audiences around the world. She also spent time at Google Cloud in Field Marketing and Demand Generation, where she built and led global programs focused on pipeline and revenue growth. Earlier in her career, she worked across brand, digital and experiential strategy for companies including Mercedes-Benz, Nike, Nintendo and Beats by Dre. She started her career agency-side, which gave her the chance to work across a wide range of industries and marketing disciplines.

Pam is excited by the ways AI is changing marketing from how teams work and create to how brands can better understand and connect with their audiences.

Born and raised in New York City and now based in Los Angeles, Pam loves exploring LA's restaurant scene and kayaking in Marina Del Rey. She is also an avid solo traveler, with Bali holding a special place as one of her favorite trips. She is passionate about giving back to her community and volunteers with organizations including Fulfillment Fund.

Aditi is a data-driven growth and transformation leader with 10+ years 

Aditi is a data-driven growth and transformation leader with 10+ years of experience spanning digital transformation, product marketing, strategy, and operations across start-up and multinational environments in India, Canada, and the USA.

She specializes in building and scaling go-to-market strategies, marketing operations, and business systems that turn data, technology, and consumer insights into measurable business growth. Throughout her career, Aditi has led cross-functional teams and global initiatives spanning marketing, sales, product, technology, and operations, with a strong focus on pipeline generation, customer experience, and operational excellence.

Her experience includes managing a $5M marketing technology ecosystem across 50+ technologies, deploying 200+ global multi-channel campaign tactics, developing marketing technology and data strategies for organizations, and leading channel businesses generating millions in revenue. She has also launched co-branded product portfolios, built strategic partner programs, and driven measurable gains in market share and incremental revenue.

Aditi brings a unique perspective at the intersection of strategy, technology, marketing, and data, with a passion for building high-performing teams and creating scalable growth engines that deliver both customer and business impact.

of experience spanning digital transformation, product marketing, strategy, and operations across start-up and multinational environments in India, Canada, and the USA.

She specializes in building and scaling go-to-market strategies, marketing operations, and business systems that turn data, technology, and consumer insights into measurable business growth. Throughout her career, Aditi has led cross-functional teams and global initiatives spanning marketing, sales, product, technology, and operations, with a strong focus on pipeline generation, customer experience, and operational excellence.

Her experience includes managing a $5M marketing technology ecosystem across 50+ technologies, deploying 200+ global multi-channel campaign tactics, developing marketing technology and data strategies for organizations, and leading channel businesses generating millions in revenue. She has also launched co-branded product portfolios, built strategic partner programs, and driven measurable gains in market share and incremental revenue.

Aditi brings a unique perspective at the intersection of strategy, technology, marketing, and data, with a passion for building high-performing teams and creating scalable growth engines that deliver both customer and business impact.

Aragón serves as the SVP of Creative at FOX Advertising, where he partners with executive leadership to shape the company’s creative vision and long-term strategy. He oversees branding campaigns and visual initiatives designed to differentiate the FOX brand and strengthen client engagement.

Previously, Aragón served as Executive Director, Branding & Design (Motion) at The Walt Disney Company’s Disney Entertainment Television, where he led cross-platform campaigns and creative for the Disney Upfront, Abbott Elementary, The Golden Bachelor, The Oscars and the CMA Awards. He also served as Vice President, Design at OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network, Vice President, Design at Lifetime Networks and Director of Branding & Design (Motion) at ABC Television Network.

Brian Robertson is the Vice President of Marketing at Motive, joining in 2021 where he created and leads the Marketing department across its energy and connectivity business including GXC and Advanced Charging Technologies (ACT). Founded in 1979, Motive delivers integrated energy and connected solutions for commercial and industrial operations. In 2026, Brian completed Motive’s brand consolidation, unifying eight operating companies and four websites under one brand and website (motiveone.com) with a refreshed logo.

Previously, Brian spent over 20 years at AT&T and DIRECTV holding diverse roles from leading call center representatives and field technicians to sales operations and loyalty programs. Highlights of his career at AT&T include, launching U-verse TV in the Greater Los Angeles market area, launching ‘buy online and pick up in store’ capabilities across its retail stores, and leading digital adoption for att.com.

As a self-proclaimed ‘analytical nerd’ that is attracted to art and beauty, he thoroughly enjoys the intersection where science and creativity come together in Marketing.

Jeannie Weaver is Global Chief Marketing Officer at Boldyn Networks, the world’s leading neutral host provider that designs, builds, and operates advanced network infrastructure for the most complex environments.

Jeannie is leading the transformation of Boldyn’s marketing organization into one global, commercially aligned team designed for speed and impact, and first to integrate digital employees. As the head of Boldyn’s marketing strategy, her responsibilities include driving brand growth, positioning, messaging, public relations, and spearheading innovative growth marketing campaigns that significantly enhance market presence.

Jeannie is a proven intrapreneur, and an expert in marketing strategy, sales, and brand management. Her extensive background includes a proven track record of driving revenue growth and market expansion through innovative marketing and sales initiatives. Jeannie is known for her love of “what’s new”, a growth mindset, and a passionate people-first approach.

Before joining Boldyn Networks, Jeannie was an executive at AT&T. Last serving as Vice President of Retail Marketing & Special Experience. In this role, she led strategic creative concept development and merchandising for over 5,300 AT&T locations, significantly enhancing customer engagement and sales performance.

Jeannie began her career at AT&T in a call center, quickly rising through the ranks to hold numerous executive leadership positions. Her roles included leading an entertainment division, AT&T Hello Lab, grassroots marketing and sponsorships with Cricket, and serving as Head of Sales and Marketing for Digital Life. She also played a pivotal role in launching the Clearwire brand and was a founding member of the Aio team, which ultimately became Cricket Wireless.

Jeannie is the mother of two adopted sons, public speaker and an author; she published her first book D.R.E.A.M. Your permission slip to reclaim a life you’ll love, that is quickly becoming a methodology referent for people and teams’ transformation to achieve meaningful goals.

Benjamin Diedering is an expert in connecting content, creators, and culture to help brands earn attention and build relevance. As Founder and CEO of BDX MEDIA, an award-winning creative agency with offices in LA, NYC and Leipzig Germany, he works with enterprise brands like BMW, T-Mobile, Netflix and FIFA.  His focus: turning cultural insights into creative campaigns that connect with audiences and support business growth. He also runs a weekly Newsletter "The Bigger Picture" which analyzes the most successful Brand Campaigns.

Jack Ready is a Product Manager at Capillary Technologies, where he works on aiRA, Capillary's AI agent for marketers. He works hands-on with US brands in retail, travel, fuel and entertainment, turning the questions their marketing teams ask every day into analysis and campaigns aiRA can deliver in minutes. Before aiRA, he built customer rewards and engagement products in healthcare. He spoke on agentic AI workflows at Capillary's Captivate 2026 conference, and he's based in Minneapolis.

Richard is a strategic product and marketing executive who excels at guiding startups and later stage companies to transformational growth.  Successful in bringing new solutions to market, revitalizing product portfolios and go-to-market strategies, and scaling operations across a broad set of industries. Collaborative leader and team player, with experience building and managing high performing global teams. 
 
Specialties: Product Strategy and Management, Marketing Strategy and Execution, Brand Management, Product Positioning, Go-to-Market, Operational Management and P/L, Sales Enablement, Channel Development, Engineering and Program Management.

Heather Costello represents the Capillary Growth team for the Americas where her role is to consult with senior loyalty marketers to deliver solutions in customer engagement, loyalty and technology platform implementation. She joined Capillary after leading Customer Success at SessionM, a division of Mastercard.

A 20+ year veteran in the loyalty solutions space, Heather has held key leadership positions at industry-leading organizations including Oracle, CrowdTwist and Epsilon.

Beyond her executive work, Heather has contributed columns to trade publications, industry blogs and been a featured speaker at various marketing industry conferences in North America.

Heather is based in Northeast Florida where she lives with her family.

Hope Trumbull is VP of Global Sales at Social Native, the AI-powered creator marketing platform used by more than 1,500 brands across fashion, beauty, CPG, retail, and travel to predict, produce, and scale content that performs. Since joining the company in 2017, Hope has worked at the intersection of brand strategy and platform algorithms, helping marketing teams move beyond guesswork and follower counts toward data-driven content that actually converts. As the industry's attention shifts from traditional SEO to answer engine optimization (AEO), Hope brings a rare, ground-level view of how brands can adapt their content to be discovered, trusted, and recommended by AI platforms — without sacrificing the authenticity that makes content work in the first place.