LiveRamp Leaders

Scott Howe

Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Howe joined the Company in 2011 as its Chief Executive Officer and President. Prior to joining the Company, he served as corporate vice president of Microsoft Advertising Business Group from 2007–2010. In this role, he managed a multi-billion-dollar business encompassingall emerging businesses related to online advertising, including search, display, ad networks, in-game, mobile, digital cable and a variety of enterprise software applications. Mr. Howe was employed from 1999–2007 as an executive and later as a corporate officer at aQuantive, Inc. where he managed three lines of business, including Avenue A | Razorfish (a leading Seattle-based global consultancy in digital marketing and technology), DRIVE Performance Media (now Microsoft Media Network), and Atlas International (an adserving technology now owned by Facebook). Earlier in his career, he was with The Boston Consulting Group and Kidder, Peabody & Company, Inc. He previously served on the boards of Blue Nile, Inc., a leading online retailer of diamonds and fine jewelry, and the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB). He is a magna cum laude graduate of Princeton University, where he earned a degree in economics, and he holds an MBA from Harvard University.

Warren C. Jenson

President, CFO & Executive MD of International

Amy Lee Stewart

SVP, General Counsel and Global Chief Data Ethics Officer

David Eisenberg

Chief Strategy Officer

Diego Panama

Chief Commercial Officer

Jerry Jones

EVP, Chief Ethics and Legal Officer

Jessica Shapiro

Chief Marketing Officer

Jessica Shapiro is Chief Marketing Officer at LiveRamp. Jessica oversees all functions of marketing globally. Jessica has extensive marketing expertise and has held leadership roles at some of the most iconic business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) brands, including Microsoft, Starbucks and SAP. She is known for building enduring customer-centric brands, driving growth-focused marketing, delivering innovative customer and partner experiences, and building high-performing teams. Prior to LiveRamp, she served as vice president of global corporate marketing and vice president of demand generation and field marketing at Icertis. Jessica holds a BA from Brown University and an MBA from the Michael G Foster School of Business.

Josh Abdulla

Chief Customer Solutions Officer

Lauren Dillard

SVP, Finance and Investor Relations

Lauren Dillard is the Senior Vice President of Finance and Investor Relations at LiveRamp, where she leads all aspects of the company’s finance and investor relations. Prior to LiveRamp, Lauren spent five years at Acxiom, and two years at Addo Communications, where she helped develop and execute investor relations strategies for private and public companies in the TMT space. Before Addo, she worked in Corporate Finance at Silver Spring Networks and completed her CPA at Ernst & Young. Lauren holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Accounting from Santa Clara University.

Mohsin Hussain

EVP Engineering & CTO

Sharawn Tipton

Chief People Officer

Bridget Brett

VP, Customer Success

Under Bridget’s direction and leadership, LiveRamp’s Customer Success team delivers stellar customer journeys and ensures every customer is meeting their measured business objectives. Prior to joining LiveRamp in 2015, Bridget negotiated electric power deals, balanced global trade flows of liquified natural gas, and was ExxonMobil’s delegate to the World Petroleum Council. Bridget’s board experience includes the MIT Alumni Association, the MIT Club of Northern California, and the World Petroleum Council Young Professionals. She holds a Masters in Management and a Bachelors in Ocean Engineering both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Daniella Harkins

SVP, Commercial Strategy and Excellence

Grant Ries

EVP of Emerging Markets

James Arra

Head of Cloud Partnerships

Joel Jewitt

VP, Strategic Operations

Joel is a co-founder and VP Strategic Operations at LiveRamp. He was previously co-founder and VP Business Development of Motorola/Good Technology Inc, and prior to that was EVP of Encompass. Joel was also co-founder of Adaptive Media and was the fourth member in the founding team of Palm Computing. Joel holds a B.A. in Physics from Amherst College and a MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

John Hoctor

General Manager

John Hoctor is the General Manager of LiveRamp TV and the co-founder and CEO of Data Plus Math, recently acquired by LiveRamp. John oversees product, operations, and support of measurement, addressable TV, and advanced TV solutions. Previously, he also co-founded IntegralReach, which developed the first data-driven linear platform for TV. IntegralReach was acquired by Rovi in 2013 where John then served as Senior Vice President and GM of Rovi Analytics. His keen interest in advanced data solutions for the television industry can be traced back to his time at Navic Networks, where he served as Vice President of Business Development and Marketing, before the company was acquired by Microsoft. John holds a Bachelors of Science and Masters of Science from MIT.

Kimberly Bloomston

SVP, Product

Kimberly Bloomston (she/her) has over 15 years of experience leading product management and business operations. She is currently the SVP of Product. Prior to joining LiveRamp, Kimberly has served in executive roles leading Product, Design, and Operations across a variety of software companies and industries. She has experience leading strategic initiatives that focus on maturing and expanding solutions in the midst of market and company transformation. Kimberly loves tackling hard problems and is passionate about design thinking, story telling, collaboration, and enabling product operations to scale and grow a business. In addition to Product Management, she has led sales and partner programs, managed services, and customer success. Kimberly moved to California in 2019 with her kids, Mason and Avery. When Kimberly is not working, you’ll find her exploring the outdoors, working out in her home gym, making art, and spending time with her family.

Travis Clinger

SVP, Addressability and Ecosystem

As Senior Vice President of Addressability and Ecosystem at LiveRamp, Travis is responsible for leading the company’s global digital advertising ecosystem strategy: leading strategic initiatives, advancing global partnerships, and overseeing the business development and go-to-market strategies for key addressability products and initiatives. The Authenticated Traffic Solution is one such product, enabling publishers to link their first party identity to IdentityLink and then connect to the IdentityLink infrastructure LiveRamp has built across partner platforms to enable marketers to buy and measure on IdentityLink. Travis is a co-founder and Board Member of the Advertising ID Consortium, advocating for people-based identifiers to be transacted across the open Internet. Prior to joining LiveRamp, Travis was a director at Epic Systems responsible for implementing systems that managed sensitive healthcare information. Travis holds a BA in Political Science from Rollins College.

Vihan Sharma

EVP of Global Revenue

Vihan Sharma is the Executive Vice President of Global Revenue at LiveRamp. Before this role, he served as Senior Vice President of Safe Haven and Managing Director Europe. Vihan oversees all global commercial functions and is responsible for LiveRamp’s growth and operations in Europe. He was formerly Vice President of Product at Acxiom and was responsible for all aspects of Acxiom’s data and product strategy outside of the US. Prior to joining Acxiom, he held several strategic leadership positions across a number of start-ups in Europe.

John L. Battelle

Director

Mr. Battelle is an entrepreneur, journalist, professor and author who has founded or co-founded various online, conference, magazine and other media businesses. He is the co-founder and serves as CEO of Recount Media Inc., a NY-based media platform, and as chair of the board of directors of Sovrn Holdings, Inc., a programmatic advertising and publisher platform that connects publishers with monetization solutions. He is also an Adjunct Professor and Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University and serves as a director of MMA Global. Previously, he was the founder/executive chair and CEO of NewCo Platform, Inc., a disruptive conference and media platform. In 2005, Mr. Battelle founded the Internet media company Federated Media Publishing, where he served as chairman and CEO until its sale to LIN Media in 2014. He founded and served as executive producer of the Web 2 Summit and maintains Searchblog, an ongoing daily site which covers the intersection of media, technology and culture. From 2001–2004 he occupied the Bloomberg chair in Business Journalism for the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the founder and served from 1997–2001 as chairman and CEO of Standard Media International (SMI) and as publisher of The Industry Standard and TheStandard.com. Prior to that, he was a co-founding editor of Wired magazine and Wired Ventures. Mr. Battelle previously served on the board of directors of the Internet Advertising Bureau and was a founding board member of the Online Publishers Association. In 2005, he authored The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture (Penguin/Portfolio), an international bestseller published in more than 25 languages. He is considered to be an expert in the field of media and technology, and has appeared on national and international news channels such as CBS, BBC, CNN, PBS, Discovery and CNBC. Honors and awards include: “Global Leader for Tomorrow” and “Young Global Leader” by the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland; a finalist in the 2000 “Entrepreneur of the Year” competition by Ernst & Young; “Innovator – One of Ten Best Marketers in the Business” by Advertising Age; and one of the “Most Important People on The Web” by PCWorld. Mr. Battelle holds a bachelor’s degree in anthropology and a master’s degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley.

Timothy R. Cadogan

Director

Mr. Cadogan is the chief executive officer of GoFundMe, the world’s largest fundraising platform. Prior to assuming this position in March 2020, he was chief executive officer of OpenX Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of digital advertising technology. Mr. Cadogan continues to serve OpenX as its chairman of the board. From 2003–2008 Mr. Cadogan served as senior vice president of Global Advertising Marketplaces at Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) where he oversaw the primary advertising product lines including display, search and video. Previously at Yahoo!, he was vice president of search where he was responsible for both the consumer search and the paid search businesses. Prior to joining Yahoo!, Mr. Cadogan was vice president of search at Overture (formerly GoTo.com), a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group, and a consultant at McKinsey & Company. He holds a BSc degree from The London School of Economics, an MPhil degree in international relations from Oxford University, and an MBA from Stanford University.

Vivian Chow

Director

Ms. Chow served as SVP, Strategic Execution & Operations of DocuSign, Inc (NASDAQ: DOCU), an agreement cloud company, from March 2021 – February 2022. in which role she was responsible for priority projects including the delivery, assessment, solution design, process and workflow optimization. From November 2013 to March 2021, she served as Chief Accounting Officer for DocuSign and was responsible for accounting, sales compensation, internal audit, tax and treasury. Prior to joining DocuSign in 2013, she served for five years as the VP, Worldwide Controller for Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: EA), a leading publisher of video games. Prior to that, she held VP and Corporate Controller positions at Restoration Hardware (NYSE: RH), a home furnishings retailer, and Thermage, Inc., a medical device manufacturer. Previously, she held leadership positions at Fair, Isaac & Company, Inc. (NYSE: FICO), Calypte Biomedical Corporation and Nextel Communications. Ms. Chow started her career at Arthur Andersen & Co., a public accounting partnership, where she served various clients in the audit and financial services consulting practices. Ms. Chow holds a bachelor of science degree in accounting from Lehigh University. She is a certified public accountant (inactive) in the State of California.

Richard P. Fox

Director

Since 2001, Mr. Fox has been an independent consultant. From 2000–2001, he was president and chief operating officer of CyberSafe Corporation, a global security software provider, where he was responsible for the overall financial services and operations of the company. From 1998–2000, Mr. Fox was chief financial officer and a member of the board of directors of Wall Data, a developer of enterprise software products and associated application tools, where he was responsible for the company’s finances, operations, and human resources activities. Previously, Mr. Fox spent 28 years at EY, a global accounting firm, last serving as managing partner of EY’s Seattle office from 1995–1997. He currently serves on the board of directors of Pinnacle West Capital Corporation (NYSE: PNW), an  investor-owned  electric utility holding company based in Arizona; Frontdoor, Inc. (NASDAQ: FTDR), the nation’s leading provider of home service plans; and Univar Inc. (NYSE: UNVR), an international chemical distributor. Previously, he served on the boards of ServiceMaster Global Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SERV), a leading provider of residential and commercial services; Pendrell Corporation (NASDAQ: PCO), an intellectual property investment and advisory firm; Flow International (NASDAQ: FLOW), a machine tool manufacturer; Shurgard Self Storage until its merger with Public Storage in 2006; aQuantive, Inc. until it was acquired by Microsoft in 2007; Orbitz Worldwide until 2011; and PopCap until it was acquired by Electronic Arts in 2011. He previously was a member of the Board of Visitors of the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and was a director of Premera Blue Cross and HonorHealth, an Arizona Hospital System. Mr. Fox holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Ohio University and an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, where he was a Fuqua Scholar. He is a certified public accountant in the State of Washington.

Scott E. Howe

Director and LiveRamp CEO

Mr. Howe joined the Company in 2011 as its Chief Executive Officer and President. Prior to joining the Company, he served as corporate vice president of Microsoft Advertising Business Group from 2007–2010. In this role, he managed a multi-billion-dollar business encompassing all emerging businesses related to online advertising, including search, display, ad networks, in-game, mobile, digital cable and a variety of enterprise software applications. Mr. Howe was employed from 1999–2007 as an executive and later as a corporate officer at aQuantive, Inc. where he managed three lines of business, including Avenue A | Razorfish (a leading Seattle-based global consultancy in digital marketing and technology), DRIVE Performance Media (now Microsoft Media Network), and Atlas International (an adserving technology now owned by Facebook). Earlier in his career, he was with The Boston Consulting Group and Kidder, Peabody & Company, Inc. He previously served on the boards of Blue Nile, Inc., a leading online retailer of diamonds and fine jewelry, and the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB). He is a magna cum laude graduate of Princeton University, where he earned a degree in economics, and he holds an MBA from Harvard University.

Clark M. Kokich

Non-Executive Chairman of the Board

Mr. Kokich, the Non-Executive Chairman of the Board, is currently working as a consultant. He served as executive chairman of the board of directors of Marchex, Inc. (NASDAQ: MCHX), a mobile and online advertising company based in Seattle, from 2015–2016 and as chief strategy officer of Marchex from 2013–2015. For the prior 14 years Mr. Kokich was an executive at Razorfish, a leading Seattle-based global consultancy in digital marketing and technology, serving most recently as chairman of the board.

Prior to joining Razorfish, he was CEO of Calla Bay, Inc. and was previously director of sales and marketing for a division of McCaw Cellular Communications. In his early career he spent 12 years in traditional advertising, including the position of executive vice president/managing director for Cole & Weber, a division of Ogilvy & Mather. He is a director of Power Digital Marketing, a full service digital marketing consultancy based in San Diego. He previously served as a director of Childhaven, a Seattle children’s charity, and Rocket Fuel Inc. (NASDAQ: FUEL), an advertising technology company, until its merger in 2017 into Sizmek, a privately held company. Mr. Kokich holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Oregon.

Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan

Director

Ms. Sivaramakrishnan founded and was the CEO of Drawbridge Inc., an identity management company enabling brands and enterprises to create personalized online and offline experiences for their customers. In 2019 Drawbridge was acquired by LinkedIn, a Microsoft company, where Ms. Sivaramakrishnan currently leads the Drawbridge integration and identity charter for LinkedIn Marketing Solutions. Prior to founding Drawbridge, she was a senior research scientist at AdMob, a mobile advertising firm acquired by Google in 2010. Ms. Sivaramakrishnan currently serves as a director of iHeartMedia (Nasdaq: IHRT) and is a member of the Board of Overseers of Boston University. She was named to Forbes’ “America’s Top 50 Women in Tech” in 2018 and as one of San Francisco Business Times’ “Most Admired CEOs” in 2016. She received the “Women of Vision” ABIE Award for Technology Entrepreneurship from the Anita Borg Institute in 2015 and was recognized in Ad Age’s “40 Under 40” listing in 2014. For five consecutive years, Ms. Sivaramakrishnan has been listed as one of the “Most Powerful Women in Mobile Advertising” by Business Insider. While attending Stanford University, she served as president of the Society of Women Engineers, developing an algorithm used by NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto to track and transmit radio wave data back to Earth. Ms. Sivaramakrishnan holds a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Boston University and a PhD in Electrical Engineering / Information Theory and Algorithms from Stanford University.

Omar Tawakol

Director

Mr. Tawakol has served as vice president & general manager of Cisco Systems, Inc.’s (NASDAQ: CSCO) Webex Customer Experience business unit since 2019. In 2017 he founded and was CEO of Voicea, a company specializing in leveraging conversational artificial intelligence which was acquired by Cisco in 2019. Prior to founding Voicea, Mr. Tawakol was employed by Oracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL) as senior vice president and general manager of Oracle America Inc.’s Data Cloud division. In 2007, he founded BlueKai, Inc., a leading data management platform for Fortune 100 marketers, and served as its CEO until BlueKai’s acquisition by Oracle in 2014. Prior roles include chief advertising officer and general manager of Medio Systems, Inc. (acquired by Nokia); and CEO of CoRelation (acquired by Audience Science). He currently serves on the advisory board of Decibel, a venture capital firm, and is a former director of PlaceIQ, a data and technology provider of marketing solutions based on location data. Mr. Tawakol holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and two Master of Science degrees from Stanford University, one in Engineering and the other in Computer Science.

Debora B. Tomlin

Director

Ms. Tomlin is a member of the board of directors of Weave Communications, Inc. (NYSE: WEAV), a leading all-in-one customer communications and engagement software platform for small and medium-sized businesses. She also serves as an advisor to Blumberg Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm in the technology sector. She was chief marketing officer and head of global communications of NortonLifeLock Inc. (NASDAQ: NLOK), formerly Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC) until September 2020. Prior to joining Symantec, Ms. Tomlin served from 2012–2019 as EVP, chief marketing, distribution and customer officer for CSAA Insurance Group (“CSAA”), a major provider of AAA-branded insurance, leading all aspects of marketing, customer experience and data strategies. During her tenure at CSAA, she also led distribution and enterprise strategy. From 2007–2012, Ms. Tomlin held several senior leadership positions, including vice president of marketing, with Capital One Financial Corp. (NYSE: COF), where she headed commercial banking, retail marketing and sponsorships. She led Capital One’s regional marketing effort, leveraging the footprint and deep community roots of the bank’s local markets. Prior to that role, she led the marketing strategy for Capital One’s national small business credit cards. Before joining Capital One, Ms. Tomlin held the roles of senior marketing officer and head of corporate brand for USAA Insurance Company, where she designed and delivered industry-recognized programs in marketing and customer management. Prior to USAA, she held numerous marketing positions, including chief marketing officer at LOMA, an Atlanta-based international organization that provides consulting services for distribution, operational management, and education training for global financial services companies. Ms. Tomlin is a former member of the board of directors of the YMCA of San Francisco and the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Society of Georgia. She is also active in numerous marketing organizations and has been repeatedly honored by the San Francisco Business Times as one of the Bay Area’s Most Influential Women in Business. Ms. Tomlin holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Siena College and a master’s degree in political science from North Carolina State University.