DataXu

Advisory Board

Jon Bond

Jon Bond is the former co-chairman of leading independent agency Kirshenbaum Bond Senecal & Partners, which he co-founded in 1987. Bond’s creative vision and business acumen helped to establish Kirshenbaum Bond Senecal’s reputation for innovation with groundbreaking campaigns and an integrated agency model. Bond serves on the National Board of the American Association of Advertising Agencies, and recently served as Chairman of Worldwide Partners, an international network of independent advertising agencies. Bond also serves on the boards of the Ad Council and the NASD.

Michael Darviche

Michael Darviche has over 20 years career experience in all aspects of analytics-driven target marketing. His expertise is in innovations leveraging information systems, personalized marketing and audience management. He was a senior leader at a number of blue chip innovation companies including CitiGroup, Marsh Inc. and American Express. He also co-founded marketing technology ventures Bigfoot Interactive and Flash Capital Systems. Darviche is currently the CMO of Acxiom, an interactive marketing and data insight solution provider.

Fernando Cela Diaz

Fernando Cela Diaz is a vice president in Bank of America’s Consumer Analytics division, and a Bank of America Research Fellow at The Earth Institute at Columbia University. He has done academic research on applications of machine learning in consumer lending and in fraud and anomaly detection, and was a telecommunications engineering manager at Comunitel Global S.A. (now part of Vodafone PLC). Diaz holds a master’s degree in engineering and management from MIT, a master’s in information systems and telecommunications from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, and a master’s in computer engineering from University of Vigo and Chalmers University of Technology.

Chris Curtin

Chris Curtin is vice president of Digital Strategy for Corporate Marketing at HP, where he is responsible for driving the HP brand in existing and emerging digital channels. Curtain joined HP in 2008 and is responsible for driving next- generation activities for the site, which includes a new design and technology stack. Curtin is also a member of the DMG World Media Board of Governors and a Co-Chair for the Digital Collective, which provides a peer forum for heads of digital marketing

Bernhard Glock

Bernhard Glock most recently served as Vice President, Global Media and Communication at Procter & Gamble, responsible for managing the Company’s entire global media budget—one of the world’s largest. Glock joined P&G in 1985 and is credited with establishing many of the consumer packaged goods giant’s best practices for marketing and media. For the past four years, he has served as President of the World Federation of Advertisers. Glock is currently President and CEO of the Bernhard Glock Media Leadership Company, a media consultancy.

John Hadl

John Hadl is the founder and CEO of Brand in Hand, a full-service mobile media and marketing company that serves global brand marketers and assists emerging media companies. Since 2004, BrandinHand has been responsible for more than 600 mobile campaigns for its various clients which have include P&G, Coke, General Mills, 3M, American Express, Best Buy, Lions Gate Studios, and many others. In April 2007, BrandWeek dubbed Hadl as one of the “Marketers of the Next Generation,” the publication’s highest honor, and in July 2007, Advertising Age acknowledged Hadl as one of its distinguished “40 Under 40″ executives. Hadl frequently keynotes and participates in industry leading events. He holds a J.D. from the New York University School of Law and is currently a venture partner at the venture capital firm U.S. Venture Partners.

Tommi S. Jaakkola

Tommi S. Jaakkola, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, is a leading authority on machine learning. His research focuses on algorithm analysis and development, as well as on applications of machine learning to computational biology and to information retrieval. Jaakkola holds a PhD in computational neuroscience from MIT and a master’s degree in theoretical physics from the Helsinki University of Technology. He is an Editor of the Journal of Machine Learning Research.

Greg Stuart

Greg Stuart is widely recognized as a digital marketing entrepreneur and innovator. Greg is the global CEO of the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) and prior to that was President & CEO of the Interactive Advertising Bureau from 2001-2006. He has served in executive or board capacities at several digital media companies, including Flycast Networks, Rapt, Allyes, Zimbio and Young & Rubicam’s Wunderman and is also the co-author of the highly acclaimed book, “What Sticks.”