LiveRamp Leaders
Leadership Team
Scott Howe
Chief Executive Officer
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
Jerry Jones
EVP, Chief Ethics and Legal Officer
Jessica Shapiro
Chief Marketing Officer
Josh Abdulla
Chief Customer Officer
Lauren Dillard
SVP, Finance and Investor Relations
Mohsin Hussain
EVP Engineering & CTO
Sharawn Tipton
Chief People Officer
Daniella Harkins
SVP, Commercial Strategy and Excellence
Grant Ries
EVP of Emerging Markets
James Arra
Head of Cloud Partnerships
Joel Jewitt
VP, Strategic Operations
John Hoctor
General Manager
Kimberly Bloomston
SVP, Product
Travis Clinger
SVP, Addressability and Ecosystem
Vihan Sharma
EVP of Global Revenue and MD for Europe
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
Warren C. Jenson is the President, Chief Financial Officer and Executive Managing Director of International at LiveRamp (NYSE: RAMP), a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that provides the identity platform for powering exceptional experiences.
He was formerly the Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President at Acxiom, and was responsible for all aspects of Acxiom’s financial management and the Company’s business operations outside the United States.
Prior to joining Acxiom in 2012, he served as COO at Silver Spring Networks, a successful start-up specializing in smart grid networking technology, where he had responsibility for the company’s service delivery, operations and manufacturing organizations. From 2002 – 2008 he was CFO at Electronic Arts Inc., a leading global interactive entertainment software company. He has more than 30 years of experience in strategy and operational finance and has been a part of some of the most important success stories of the last two decades, including Amazon.com, NBC, Electronic Arts. He also helped shape and successfully navigate digital transformations at NBC and Delta Airlines. In addition, he was twice designated one of the “Best CFOs in America” by Institutional Investor magazine, and he was also honored as Bay Area Venture CFO of the Year in 2010 He also has significant M&A and corporate development experience.
Warren’s board experience includes DigitalOcean (DOCN: NYSE), Cardtronics (NASDAQ: CATM), Tapjoy, BYU Marriott School, and the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. He holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting and a master of accountancy degree, both from Brigham Young University.
Amy Lee Stewart
SVP, General Counsel and Global Chief Data Ethics Officer
Amy Lee Stewart is SVP, General Counsel and Global Chief Data Ethics Officer of LiveRamp, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that provides the identity platform for powering exceptional experiences. As our General Counsel and Global Chief Data Ethics Officer, Amy brings over 30 years of legal experience, and leads LiveRamp’s world-class Data Ethics program.
She has served as lead counsel in matters involving FRCA privacy litigation, trade secrets, unfair competition, antitrust claims, and previously served as outside counsel for Acxiom. Amy has been a Certified Information Privacy Professional/United States (CIPP/US) by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) since 2015.
Prior to joining LiveRamp, Amy was a Member and Director at Rose Law Firm and served as an Adjunct Professor at the William H. Bowen School of Law, University of Arkansas. Amy is a graduate of the New York University School of Law and received her B.A. in Economics from Wellesley College. She is also an alum of Phillips Exeter Academy.
David Eisenberg
Chief Strategy Officer
David Eisenberg is Chief Strategy Officer at LiveRamp (NYSE: RAMP), a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that provides the identity platform for powering exceptional experiences.
David is responsible for strategic planning, M&A, partnerships and investments. Prior to LiveRamp, David led Strategy and Corporate Development at Acxiom and before that at BzzAgent, prior to its $60M acquisition by Dunnhumby.
In addition, David served as head of international corporate development for Rakuten Group, a $15B global consumer Internet and Ecommerce Company. He led the company’s global expansion strategy, M&A and business development efforts in US, Europe and China, including the successful US launch of Rakuten.com, Rakuten Marketing and Rakuten Loyalty and the acquisitions of LinkShare, CauseLoyalty, Traffic Strategies and FreeCause.
David serves on the Board of Directors of Ensono and as an advisor to Retail Capital and Linkable Networks. He earned a BA from University of Wisconsin-Madison and a JD from University of Detroit School of Law. David lives in Connecticut with his wife and two children.
Jerry Jones
EVP, Chief Ethics and Legal Officer
Jerry C. Jones is the EVP, Chief Ethics and Legal Officer of LiveRamp (NYSE: RAMP), a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that provides the identity platform for powering exceptional experiences.
Prior to LiveRamp, Jerry was the Chief Ethics and Legal officer at Acxiom since 1999, where he oversaw all legal and data ethics matters. He also assists in the strategy and execution of mergers and alliances and the Company’s strategic initiatives.
Previously, he was employed for 19 years as an attorney with the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Arkansas, representing a broad range of business interests. He is a member of the board of directors of Agilysys, Inc. (NASDAQ: AGYS), a leading developer and marketer of proprietary enterprise software, services and solutions to the hospitality and retail industries, where he serves on the Audit Committee and the Nominating and Governance Committee. He also serves on the board of directors of Heifer International and on the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Board of Visitors, and is a co-founder of uHire U.S. He is a Special Advisor to the Club de Madrid, an organization composed of over 100 former Presidents and Prime Ministers from more than 60 democratic countries.
He was also a member of the board of directors of Entrust, Inc. until it was purchased by private investors in 2009 and is former chairman of the board of the Arkansas Virtual Academy. Mr. Jones holds a juris doctorate degree and a bachelor’s degree in public administration from the University of Arkansas.
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 Officer
Josh Abdulla is the Chief Customer Solutions Officer at LiveRamp (NYSE: RAMP), the leading data enablement platform, where he leads the company’s Customer Solutions organization, including its Global Services, Global Customer Success, and Global Customer Support teams. Under his leadership, these divisions work collaboratively to support the post-sales experience for more than 1,000 LiveRamp customers to ensure exceptional service and results. Josh helped found LiveRamp’s Global Services organization in 2020 and has since grown the team to more than 50 employees dedicated to customer advocacy and partnership. Josh also oversees LiveRamp University, an educational series helping customers and partners accelerate their data strategies.
Josh has held senior leadership roles focused on customer success, professional services and service sales for more than two decades. Prior to joining LiveRamp, he led global customer success and service functions at Salesforce Marketing Cloud (NYSE: CRM), ExactTarget (NYSE: ET, acquired by Salesforce in 2013) and Model N (NYSE: MODN). He was also the co-founder and CEO of Letgive, Inc., a pioneer in online and mobile charitable giving.
In addition to his work at LiveRamp, Josh is a mentor at Techstars, an investor and adviser for several startups, a faculty member at the University of Colorado. He also volunteers his time as a technology consultant at Protect Our Winters, a climate change advocacy nonprofit. Josh holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems from Indiana University and a Master of Business Administration from New York University’s Stern School of Business.
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
Mohsin Hussain is the Chief Technology Officer at LiveRamp (NYSE: RAMP), leading the global engineering team. In his role, Mohsin is responsible for ensuring LiveRamp’s world-class products and technology platforms continue to scale and innovate to meet the ever-growing needs of the company’s 1000+ customers across a broad range of sectors including brands, agencies, technology vendors, data providers, and publishers.
Prior to joining LiveRamp, Mohsin served as senior vice president of engineering at Criteo where he was responsible for leading the engineering organization in the United States. He led a large-scale buildout of the US engineering team, the launch of several new products from the ground up, and the successful research and development integration of several acquisitions including Hooklogic.
With more than 25 years of experience in engineering, leadership, and innovation, he brings an extensive technical background in software and distributed systems, data science and machine learning, analytics and the cloud. His career has spanned leadership roles across several high-growth start-ups and public companies including AOL/Netscape, Seibel, SunPower, and Criteo. Mohsin has expertise building large-scale high-availability systems, cultivating empowerment-based engineering culture, and integrating complex technology M&A.
Sharawn Tipton
Chief People Officer
Sharawn Tipton is the Chief People Officer at LiveRamp (NYSE: RAMP), the leading data connectivity platform. Sharawn spearheads LiveRamp’s global people and culture (P&C) strategy and all aspects of P&C programs in support of the company’s continued growth一including global talent acquisition, diversity, inclusion and belonging, workplace experience, business partners, talent enablement, total rewards, benefits, HR technology, and people operations.
Previously, Sharawn was the Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer at Micron Technology, where she led the diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) and employee relations functions within the people organization. Most notably in this role, she achieved global pay equity for all underrepresented groups and hosted the first employee resource group summit for the company. Sharawn has also established high-impact initiatives and world-class people programs in prior positions at Flextronics, Gensler, and Safeway over her 20-year professional career.
In addition to her corporate work, Sharawn devotes time to serving as chairperson of two non-profit boards, College Track Oakland and Fair Pay Workplace, as well as a mentor to first-generation and underrepresented college students.
Sharawn is a graduate of California State University, East Bay and holds a master’s degree in human resource management from Golden Gate University. Her accreditations include certifications from Senior Professional Human Resources, Society for Human Resources Management, and Project Management Institute.
Daniella Harkins
SVP, Commercial Strategy and Excellence
Daniella Harkins is SVP, Commercial Strategy and Excellence at LiveRamp (NYSE: RAMP), the leading data connectivity platform, where she works cross-functionally to drive the structure and transformation of the commercial team toward the next evolution—empowering them to achieve maximum productivity. She specializes in building cross-functional relationships, simplifying a strategic vision into tangible results to ultimately boost sales excellence. She oversees pipeline success, sales enablement, growth efficiency, and customer health.
Harkins was an early member of LiveRamp, and has been instrumental in the company’s growth within a highly competitive market. Formerly GM, Strategic and Media Alliances for LiveRamp, she focused on strategic growth and partnerships with LiveRamp’s largest clients, leveraging the power of identity across the ecosystem. She built her career working with clients at the intersection of data, technology, and creative, and has since used those relationship experiences to influence how she organically—and structurally—provides commercial team support within her current day-to-day. Prior to joining LiveRamp, Harkins was VP, Strategic Solutions at Verve, where she built programmatic and data partnerships to power mobile solutions for Verve’s clients. She has also previously held numerous executive roles at Acxiom. Harkins has cultivated strong global relationships throughout her professional tenure.
A passionate industry voice, Harkins is a member of the All Raise Visionary Voices, a partner and frequent podcast guest of social good platform Givsly, and an experienced speaker across various platforms—including New York Advertising Week. Her passion and curiosity have earned her recognition as Female Business Executive of the Year for Women in Business in 2017. She has been featured in esteemed industry publications, including Business Insider, Beet.TV, MediaPost, and ClickZ, among others.
Daniella holds a BA in French from Temple University and an MBA from St. John’s University Rome, and is fluent in French and Italian. She currently resides in Philadelphia with one Great Dane and two tiny dogs.
Grant Ries
EVP of Emerging Markets
As Executive Vice President of Emerging Markets, Grant leads the expansion of LiveRamp’s presence into new business sectors outside of advertising and marketing. He joined LiveRamp via the acquisition of Pacific Data Partners, a company he co-founded that was a leading digital advertising B2B data marketplace. Prior to this current role, Grant was CEO of Liveramp B2B and also oversaw Liveramp’s growth business, including TV and Marketplace.
Grant Ries was also co-founder, Board Member and CRO of BlueKai, which built the world’s largest consumer data marketplace and DMP. Oracle acquired BlueKai in 2014 and Grant served as Vice President of the Oracle Data Cloud, a global business unit he co-launched. Grant is an active technology angel investor and has provided advisory and operating support at his various investments in the technology sector for over 15 years.
James Arra
Head of Cloud Partnerships
As Head of Cloud Partnerships at LiveRamp, James leads the go-to-market strategy for LiveRamp’s client verticals: brands, agencies, data providers, platforms and publishers.
James joined LiveRamp in 2013 and has held several key leadership roles, building high-performing teams and driving growth. He served as Chief Operating Officer before becoming Co-President. Before joining LiveRamp, James was Vice President of worldwide sales at TRUSTe, where he helped grow the company from less than 1,000 customers to more than 6,000 customers in just over three years.
James holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and a minor in Quantitative Economics and Decision Theory from the University of California at San Diego.
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 and MD for Europe
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.
Board Of Directors
Scott E. Howe
Director and LiveRamp CEO
Clark M. Kokich
Non-Executive Chairman of the Board
Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan
Director
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.
Mr. Battelle 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 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 2013-2021, she served as DocuSign’s Chief Accounting Officer 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.
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 is a member of the board of the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) and previously served on the board of Blue Nile, Inc., a leading online retailer of diamonds and fine jewelry. 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 Xembley, Inc., a SaaS business productivity software company headquartered in Seattle. He previously served as a director of Childhaven, a Seattle children’s charity, Power Digital Marketing, a full service digital marketing consultancy based in San Diego, until its sale in 2021, 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. Initially Ms. Sivaramakrishnan led the Drawbridge integration and identity charter for Microsoft’s LinkedIn Marketing Solutions division. Since August 2021, she has served as general manager of distributed data and federated AI in the office of the Chief Technology Officer. 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. She 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 and general manager of Cisco Systems, Inc.’s (NASDAQ: CSCO) Webex 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 customer communications and engagement software platform. She also serves as an advisor to Blumberg Capital, a venture capital firm. She was chief marketing officer and head of global communications at 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 at Capital One Financial Corp. (NYSE: COF), where she led commercial banking, retail, national small business credit card and sponsorship marketing. Before joining Capital One, Ms. Tomlin held the roles of senior marketing officer, head of life insurance product management and corporate brand at USAA, a Fortune 500 diversified financial services group. Prior to USAA, she held numerous marketing positions, including chief marketing officer at LOMA, an international organization providing products for distribution, operations 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 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.