Commerce Media's Next Frontier

RampUp 2023 Keynote

Speakers

Austin Leoard

Head of Sales, Sam’s Club Member Access Platform (MAP)

Jonathan Lustig

Head of Revenue, Walgreens Advertising Group

Kimberly Bloomston

SVP, Product, LiveRamp

Austin Leoard

Head of Sales, Sam’s Club Member Access Platform (MAP)

As the Head of Sales for Sam’s Club Member Access Platform (MAP), Austin leads the partnership and sales team that supports advertisers, agencies, and ad tech partners. The Sam’s Club MAP Sales team is focused on building ad experiences that are additive to the member’s experience, while simultaneously accelerating growth for our partners. We do this by working closely with Sam’s Club Merchants, Marketing, and Operations to create meaningful business outcomes. Our goal is to be the partnership that adds the most value to our partners’ businesses.

With more than 20 years of advertising experience, Austin has an extensive background in traditional, digital, and retail media. After starting in radio in Atlanta, Austin made the jump to digital in 2008 with eBay. In his time there, Austin led several teams for eBay Enterprise and helped bring eBay’s first-party audience targeting programmatic platform to market. Most recently, Austin held sales leadership positions at Walmart Connect where he helped grow the media business to $1B+ for Walmart.

Austin is a proud graduate of the University of Florida’s Warrington College of Business (Go Gators!), and he earned his MBA in Marketing from Georgia State University in Atlanta.

Jonathan Lustig

Head of Revenue, Walgreens Advertising Group

Jonathan Lustig is the Head of Revenue at Walgreens Advertising Group (wag) – the data and media division of Walgreens that delivers next-gen ad solutions, backed by the power of than 9,000 stores and 100+ million loyalty members. At wag, he is instrumental in bringing industry-leading closed loop solutions to brand & shopper marketers and media agencies, spanning digital, OTT, CTV, social, in-store and more. Prior to wag, Jonathan was the SVP of North American Sales for TripleLift during a time of immense growth. He is also a board member for Jambos, the nonprofit organization that’s dedicated to bringing comfort to children in foster care.

Kimberly Bloomston

SVP, Product, LiveRamp

Kimberly Bloomston is Senior Vice President of Product at LiveRamp (NYSE: RAMP) where she heads the company’s product organization. Previously, she served as LiveRamp’s Vice President of Core Platform and Data Marketplace and Head of Product, Daa Marketplace and Application Experience. With over 15 years’ of experience leading product management and business operations, Kimberly spearheads strategic initiatives that focus on maturing and expanding solutions in the midst of market and company transformation. She has served in executive roles leading product, design and operations across a variety of software companies and industries, including higher education, security and data enablement. Kimberly has also led sales, partner programs, managed services and customer success over the course of her career. Prior to LiveRamp, Kimberly held leadership roles with Ellucian, Digital Signal Corporation and The Zellman Group.