Schmooze | July 15, 2019

Tim Hanlon, founder and CEO of The Vertere Group, welcomes attendees to the B&C/Multichannel News Programmatic TV Summit, held June 24 at The Stewart Hotel New York.

Xandr’s Matt Van Houten (l.), VP, head of product development and Lindsay Van Kirk, VP, product manager, take part in the Summit’s Opening Keynote Conversation.

Gerard Broussard, principal and research analyst at Pre-Meditated Media/eMarketer, offers up a State of the State Overview on TV Automation. 

(From l.): Matt Bostock, Lake 5 Media; Jill Josephson, Transform; Jo Kinsella, TVSquared; and Jessica Hindlian, LiveRamp; during the panel discussion, “Data Meets Inventory: New Wine in Old Wineskins?”

(From l.): “OpenAP 2.0” keynote speakers (from l.): Denise Colella, NBCUniversal; Amarachi Miller, Viacom; and Dan Callahan, Fox. 

Buy-side execs (l. to r.): Brad Geving of Tatari, Will Batson of Hudson MX and Kathy Doyle of Magna Global with interviewer Mike Shields of Shields Strategic Consulting during the summit’s Closing Keynote Conversation.

(From l.): Eric Bauza, voice of “Splinter” and narrator; Rob Paulsen, co-executive producer; and Andy Suriano, character designer; at the Paley Center for Media’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 35th-anniversary salute in Beverly Hills, Calif. 

At a taping of Ovation TV’s Inside the Actors Studio in New York (l. to r.): Noah Doyle, founder, North Fork TV Festival; James Burrows; Kelsey Grammer; and John Malkin, EVP, content distribution, Ovation. 

At the Paley Center for Media’s “Women Writers of Late Night” event in New York (l. to r.): Karen Chee, Allison Hord, Dina Gusovsky, Jenny Hagel, and Seth Meyers of NBC’s Late Night With Seth Meyers.

(From l.): Steve Kazanijan, president and CEO, Promax, Cleo Wade and Common at the 2019 Promax Conference in Los Angeles.

Marketers from CNN Worldwide were honored as Promax’s Global Excellence Marketing Team of the Year (l. to r.): Pierre Meilhan, Sean Houston, Yonathan Gebreyes, Jeff Mielcarz, Dan Brown, Rick Lewchuk, Leah Hall, Brandon Campbell, Margaret Anthony and Whit Friese.

Bas Alberts (l.) and Johan Nel of Amsterdam-based agency DutchToast with the Promax Award for Global Excellence Agency of the Year.