Lindy Crea is VP of Partnerships at Recharge, the leading subscription payments solution, helping ecommerce merchants of all sizes launch and scale subscription offerings. Lindy leads the team responsible for Recharge’s all-star partner network.
Prior to joining Recharge in August 2020, Lindy spent four years at Klarna where she managed Global Partnerships, including relationships with key ecommerce platforms, payment gateways, and digital agencies. She has also held roles with the Clinton Health Access Initiative and at American Express.
Lindy began her career in consulting and received her MBA from IESE Business School in Spain. She currently lives in Boulder, Colorado, and escapes to the mountains whenever possible.
Rachel Soper Sanders is the CEO and co-founder of Rootine, a precision nutrition startup optimizing health and human performance. With 10 years’ experience at the intersection of health and technology, she is disrupting the market as a female founder in the male dominated personalized health tech space.
In addition to being a founder, Rachel is a startup advisor, angel investor, new mom, and has been featured across Forbes, Entrepreneur, Thrive Global, Business Insider, and more. She received a BA from Vanderbilt University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Phoebe Yu is the CEO and Founder of ettitude. While shopping for her own home after moving to Melbourne, Australia, Phoebe spotted an opportunity within the bedding market to create sustainable luxury for less. Her vision of revolutionising the bedding industry saw Phoebe bridge together her entrepreneurial instincts, passion for sustainability, and understanding of fabric technology.
After years of testing materials, weaving and dying techniques, and harnessing a decade of experience working in supply chain management and merchandising, Phoebe perfected and launched ettitude’s innovative CleanBamboo fabric in 2014. By 2018, ettitude expanded globally opening a Los Angeles headquarter.
In 2019 ettitude was named “International Conquerer" by Online Retail Industry Awards in Sydney for demonstrating significant growth in international markets. ettitude was named an Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private companies in America in both 2020 & 2021. Prior to ettitude, Phoebe had founded two international trading and sourcing companies in Asia.
Olivia Landau is the Founder and CEO of The Clear Cut, a 4th generation diamond expert and G.I.A. Graduate Gemologist (GG). She started The Clear Cut as an educational blog for friends and family and when she met her husband, Kyle, in G.I.A. school, they turned the blog into a multi-million dollar direct-to-consumer diamond jewelry company revolutionizing the way millennials purchase engagement rings. Since then, The Clear Cut has doubled in size each year.
Aimed at dismantling the brick and mortar diamond industry, The Clear Cut provides accessibility and transparency to a traditionally opaque and male-dominated industry. The Clear Cut has since expanded beyond custom engagement rings and has a collection of fine jewelry that continues to grow and expand.
Landau has been recognized on the Forbes 30 Under 30 and Entrepreneur’s 2021 100 Women of Impact list. The Clear Cut has been featured in Forbes, Vogue, Business Insider, TechCrunch, The New York Times and others.
As a senior member of the Strategic Insights team, Marianne develops insights content across a range of subjects, including viewer engagement, time-shifted viewing, brand safety and OTT/streaming TV.
Prior to joining VAB, Marianne spent nearly 20 years working within advertising agencies to develop integrated media strategies across a range of high-profile clients. The experience of working directly with marketers and brand leaders informs her point of view when developing insights reports and guides, ensuring all VAB content is relevant, clear and actionable.
Lindy Crea is VP of Partnerships at Recharge, the leading subscription payments solution, helping ecommerce merchants of all sizes launch and scale subscription offerings. Lindy leads the team responsible for Recharge’s all-star partner network.
Prior to joining Recharge in August 2020, Lindy spent four years at Klarna where she managed Global Partnerships, including relationships with key ecommerce platforms, payment gateways, and digital agencies. She has also held roles with the Clinton Health Access Initiative and at American Express.
Lindy began her career in consulting and received her MBA from IESE Business School in Spain. She currently lives in Boulder, Colorado, and escapes to the mountains whenever possible.
Graduating with a Masters in Finance, Laura has spent her whole career in digital analytics and growth. Laura started her career at Digitas and Ogilvy, before joining Facebook. There she launched her DTC brand Oars + Alps, a clean men's personal care line.
The brand scaled DTC and exited to a major strategic within a few years. She is now the COO at Steady State Brands where they invest, advice, and scale CBD brands in house. Laura is also advising early stage companies on growth and M&A.
Krysta Lewis is the CEO and Founder of Aisling Organics, a high-performance organic makeup brand. With a focus on both purpose and profit, Krysta was inspired to launch Aisling Organics when she realized the unregulated chemicals in our cosmetics were causing chronic illness and there were no effective alternatives on the market.
Within two years of launch, Lewis has built one of the most successful e-commerce start-ups and grown an extensive following with recognition of one of Entrepreneur Magazine’s Most Influential Entrepreneurs of 2018 and Young Entrepreneur of the year.
Kevin Gould is an entrepreneur, talent manager, brand builder, and active angel investor based in Los Angeles. Gould is the CEO of Kombo Ventures which operates as a holding company to its core operating divisions: talent management, a strategic creative agency, and brand Incubation.
He is the co-founder of three direct to consumer brands, all of which have not raised outside capital and are self funded startups:
Insert Name Here, a hair extension and products brand launched in October of 2018 with co-founders Sharon Pak and Jordynn Wynn, previously the first two employees at Colourpop Cosmetics and ranked by Tribe Dynamics as one of the top ten leading hair brands on social media.
Wakeheart, a fragrance and scent brand aimed at Gen Z and young millenials, launched in July of 2019 and co-founded with the Dolan Twins, two of the largest digital influencers in the world with over 20 million followers on social media.
Glamnetic, a magnetic eyeliner and lash brand launched in July 2019 and co-founded with Ann McFerran, a former artist and entrepreneur.
Gould is an active angel investor and advisor in a number of innovative startups; Clutter, Gyft (acquired by First Data), Compology, DraftKings, The Hunt (acquired by Pinterest), Whistle (acquired by Mars), Step, Rinse, Jukin Media, Brandable, Stem, Pocketwatch, Cargomatic, Beautycon and many others.
Named to Variety magazine's 2019 Dealmakers Impact List, honoring top dealmakers in the entertainment industry, Gould regularly speaks on panels and at events on new media, influencer marketing, and the convergence of technology, entertainment, and consumer brand building.
Kat Dey is a serial entrepreneur and executive, named one of “35 People to Watch” and “EY Entrepreneurial Winning Woman”. Currently, she is Co-Founder & President of ettitude, a direct-to-consumer sustainable lifestyle brand offering modern bedding, bath and sleep essentials made with innovative CleanBamboo fabric.
Their manufacturing process is a clean alternative to the highly polluting cotton industry. Prior to ettitude, Dey had a decade of experience scaling mission-driven brands. In 2012, Dey founded Try The World, a direct to consumer food subscription company, which disrupted the global artisanal food supply chain.
It was named by Crains NY as the #3 fastest growing company in New York before it was acquired in 2017. Today Dey also serves as advisor and investor in several direct to consumer brands. Prior to her startup journey, Dey held strategy positions at Weight Watchers and Thomson Reuters, and received her MBA from Columbia Business School and her Bachelor’s Degree from Columbia University. Kat and her companies have appeared in Fortune, Forbes, WSJ, LA Times, Today, FOX, BBC and more.
Jason Wiese heads VAB’s Strategic Insights team producing actionable, unique intelligence about today’s complex video environment to help marketers make fully informed media decisions.
Jason has been instrumental in developing and overseeing VAB’s most sought-after marketer’s guides and reports on topics spanning the video landscape. He is the key architect behind VAB’s distinctive and recognized analyses within the areas of comparable metrics, attribution and social TV, among others.
Inherently curious and analytical, his multifaceted career has spanned both the advertising agency and TV network sides of the business, working directly with marketers to develop innovative, integrated communication plans and ad sales strategies for numerous high-profile brands.
Danielle DeLauro serves as VAB’s executive vice president and works directly with the CEO to determine VAB’s strategic vision and set the internal agenda and direction for all departments within the organization.
Danielle led the 30-year-old VAB through a comprehensive transformation, internally and externally. She set the tone for VAB’s evolution into a marketer-first, insights organization that inspires companies to reimagine their media strategies for the modern digital and videocentric world.
A strategist at heart, Danielle spent her career at major advertising agencies working directly with marketers, developing integrated media plans for a range of high-profile brands. Through this experience, she recognized a void in the industry and established VAB’s Strategic Insights division, a team dedicated to helping marketers make fully informed media decisions by providing actionable, unique intelligence about today’s video environments.
Danielle was named one of Cynopsis’ Top Women in Media for 2020, honored as an industry leader and one of the Most Powerful Women in Broadband and Media by Cablefax and has previously been recognized among Advertising Age’s 40 Under 40.
