Refinery29's Philippe von Borries and Piera Gelardi
As two of the four co-founders of media and entertainment company Refinery29, Philippe von Borries and Piera Gelardi have used a pro-women, taboo-shattering ethos to build a behemoth catering to the i...
27 Sep 201837min
Nick Brien, CEO Americas of Dentsu Aegis Network
"We're not in the advertisement business. We're in the engagement business," says Nick Brien, CEO of Dentsu Aegis Network Americas. The advertising company was formed in 2013 to manage parent company ...
20 Sep 201835min
Studio 71 co-founder Reza Izad
Chances are, even if you are an avid consumer of short form streaming videos, you've never heard of Studio 71. But you've seen their work — or at least your kids have. From Canadian YouTube superstar ...
13 Sep 201837min
Wondery founder and CEO Hernan Lopez
When Hernan Lopez left his post as president and CEO of Fox International Channels in 2016 to launch a podcast company people asked him a straightforward question: Are you nuts? But he saw parallels b...
6 Sep 201829min
Sub Rosa founder Michael Ventura gets empathic
Michael Ventura wrote the book on empathy. Literally. The founder of the New York strategy and design consultancy Sub Rosa is a multi-hyphenate. When he's not advising a portfolio of Fortune 500 clien...
30 Aug 201832min
How Terry Young, CEO of Sparks & Honey, is mapping culture
When Terry Young founded the agency Sparks & Honey in 2012, it was billed as a "next-generation" agency that really gets culture. Last month the Omnicom shop announced that it was — you guessed it — r...
23 Aug 201830min
USA Today Network CRO Kevin Gentzel
A zen koan for 2018: How, as a media company today, does one build both scale and trust? It might be easy to cultivate one, but it often comes at the expense of the other. The USA Today Network has ma...
16 Aug 201838min
Arnold Worldwide CEO Kiran Smith
On the first day of her job as CEO, Kiran Smith broke her left foot. What could easily be interpreted as a bad omen turned out to be a blessing in a cast: Smith says the boot she's had to wear these p...
9 Aug 201825min
